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European Conference: Resisting War Today – Preparing Collective Nonviolent Alternatives
Conference Registration open now!
We are very excited to finally share with you the news of our upcoming European Conference that will take place in Brussels, 24-27 October 2024. Come and check out our program and sign up to join.
Online Prayer for Peace in Ukraine and beyond
Church and Peace invites you to pray for peace in Ukraine and beyond. Together with the branches of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation in England & Scotland and Wales (Cymdeithos y Cymod) and the Methodist Peace Fellowship, we gather on Zoom on Fridays...
European Conference and Annual General Meeting, 24-27 October 2024, Brussels, Belgium
Is the sword to keep devouring forever? Do you not know that the end will be bitter? (2 Sam 2:26)Resisting War Today – Preparing Collective Nonviolent Alternatives Wethen, 4 November 2024 – “What does nonviolence mean for us as Christians in the midst of the wars and...
Nonviolent Resistance – Rethinking Security
Is the sword to keep devouring forever? Do you not know that the end will be bitter? (2 Sam 2:26)Wethen, 4 November 2024 – Challenged by this biblical verse, this year’s European conference of the ecumenical network Church and Peace in Brussels engaged with relevant...
Guaranteeing Protection and Asylum for Conscientious Objectors, Deserters and War Resisters!
Wethen, 4 November 2024 – “Today more than ever we must support the Russian conscientious objectors – men who refuse to take up arms and support Vladimir Putin in his war against Ukraine.” Belarusian human rights activist Olga Karach made this call during the...
New European Commission prioritises competition and security instead of reconciliation and peace! Church and Peace: Call to Members of the European Parliament: Use the hearing in the European Parliament from 4 to 12 November 2024 as an opportunity to correct the EU’s course
Wethen, 30.10.2024 In the job descriptions of the future European Commissioners, “reconciliation” and “peace” must be named as political guiding principles’, according to the European peace church network Church and Peace. We call on the Members of the European...
“You can never solve problems with the same mindset that created them.” (Albert Einstein)
Board of Church and Peace applauds the awarding of the Bremen Peace Prize to Maria Biedrawa and sends out invitations to this year's European conference in Brussels ‘Resisting War Today – Preparing Collective Nonviolent Alternatives’ Wethen, 13.06.2024. The board of...
Key Questions for Candidates of the 2024 European Elections
Who do you vote for on June 6-9? To help you make a decision Church and Peace, along with several other peace organizations have developed key questions for the elections of the European Parliament. We also want to draw attention to issues that are barely recognised in the shadow of the war in Ukraine, even though they are of fundamental importance for further European and global development.
Church and Peace joined Solidarity Tour of Israel-Palestine – and you are invited too!
In Israel/Palestine, some Christians have developed a non-violent approach to the conflict between (very right-wing) Jews and Palestinians. Many are inspired by it, but
When they buried Alexei Navalny they forgot that spring was so close!
Despite the abundance of hooded security agents, the scanning of faces by surveillance cameras and the chilling threat of arrest and imprisonment, thousands of Russians gathered on 1 March to honour Alexeï Navalny around the church and cemetery where he was buried.
Changeover at Church and Peace: General secretary Lydia Funck moves on and Juliane Prüfert starts work
Wethen, 07 March 2024 It is with gratitude and appreciation for seven years of energetic commitment that Church and Peace, the European peace church network, has taken leave of Lydia Funck, its longstanding general secretary. After graduating in politics and Middle...