Britain and Ireland Region

SCHOEFFENGRUND, Germany, 14 June 2017 – Church and Peace is calling churches and government leaders to make decisive choices for nonviolence and to turn away from putting trust in military-based security concepts. At its Annual General Meeting on 9-11 June in Strasbourg, the European peace church network explored the theme “Freed from fear, empowered to nonviolence” through the lens of an ongoing call to (R)reformation 500 years after Martin Luther proposed his theses for debate in Wittenberg, Germany.

SCHOEFFENGRUND, Germany, 14 June 2017 – European ecumenical network opposes EU paradigm shift from reconciliation and peace project to militarisation – The members of Church and Peace have expressed clear opposition at the network’s Annual General Meeting on 9-11 June in Strasbourg to recent security and defence recommendations by the European Commission, says Chairperson Antje Heider-Rottwilm.

Schöffengrund, Germany, 27 April 2017 – “Believers for Peace” and “Church and Peace” oppose worrying growth of nationalism and xenophobia in Southeast Europe. “Re:Action – Believers for Peace in Times of Nationalism and Xenophobia” was the theme of a conference which was held at the beginning of April near Zagreb, Croatia, with more than 70 participants from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia, and guests from Germany, Great Britain, Switzerland, and the USA