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Welcome to the Church and Peace Website

Peace work remains visible when we make it visible

Call for donations for our website relaunch 

Are you also tired of being inundated with news about wars every day? Peace work, especially Christian peace work, is often pushed to the margins or remains invisible.

This is where Church and Peace, as a European peace church network, comes in: We provide a platform to recognize and strengthen each other in this work. We want to make this space for encounters more professional and expand it in the digital realm. That s why we plan to revise our website and database in the coming year, making them more inviting, concrete, and user-friendly. Please help us with your donation! Thank you very much!

https://whydonate.com/fundraising/friedensarbeit-sichtbar-machen  or please scan the QR code.

Missed the European Conference 2025? Find out more here

This year’s European Conference in Herrnhut in Germany from 24-26 October 2025 was held under the title ‘Do not let your heart grow hard in these difficult times…’ Resist, reconcile, transform.

The key verse was ‘…and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.’ (Ezekiel 36:26)

On our conference page, you can listen to the lectures again in English and download some of the lectures, workshops and presentations.

 

Church and Peace is the European ecumenical peace church network of communities, training centres, peace organisations and peace service agencies. It participates in the ecumenical dialogue of the conciliar process for Justice, Peace and the Integrity of Creation and is a catalyst for common initiatives and projects.

 

  • Read about active Gospel non-violence and what it means to be a ‘peace church’.
  • Become acquainted with the members of the network and their experiences on the peace church journey.
  • Learn about the ways in which they strive to live their commitment to non-violence on a day-to-day basis.
  • Keep informed about events organised by Church and Peace, its members and partners.
  • Find texts and documents published by Church and Peace.

Download the Church and Peace leaflet (pdf)

News

Mourning the loss of former vice-chair Kees Nieuwerth

Dear members of Church and Peace, dear friends,We share with you the sad message that our dear friend and vice-chair until last year Kees Nieuwerth passed away last Friday, on June 20, 2025.Kees was a restlessly committed man of peace, striving for non-violence and...

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