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Yesterday David Cameron was to receive a letter from dozens of bishops and hundreds of clergy saying that too many people are going hungry. Instead, they didn’t answer the door and the police turned up. FoR has been supporting the End Hunger Fast campaign as a means to ending violence against those going without food […]

14th April is the Global Day of Action on Military Spending.  We passed a delightful day in Oxford city centre with Pax Christi, talking to people about money being  wasted on renewing Trident (UK’s nuclear weapons) while services like healthcare are running dry and while little money is being invested in green energy, despite catastrophic

Britain isn’t eating.  Ian Duncan Smith got very upset when Church Action on Poverty created this picture, but it’s true.  Food banks are commonplace.  Needing to use a food bank, even more so. What has this got to do with faith? Jesus said that we will always have the poor with us.  He didn’t say

If you were in town this weekend in Hastings, Norwich, Tavistock, Bristol, Edinburgh, Leicester, Cardiff, Coventry, Oxford, Brighton, Blackheath, Burlington, London, Southampton, Rochester, Lincoln, Littlehampton, Lewes or Bournemouth, you might have wondered why people were flying kites. That would be understandable. Nao Roz is Afghan new year. Sadly, Afghans lives are being ruined through drone

Thank you to those who came to Peace House last Thursday – our inaugural meeting was a great success. We were delighted to host Rana Salman from the Holy Land Trust, who talked about her experience of living in Bethlehem and what people are doing to resist violence. We learnt that community, solidarity and planning

Our annual conference for YPN members, Called to be Peacemakers, was a great success.  It was run jointly with the Student Christian Movement this year and some 50 people attended. Welcome to our new members! The theme was Peace, Power and Protest: Prophets for a new world and our contributors included Christian CND,  QPSW and Operation Noah,

Amanda Kuehn is from Lincoln, Nebraska and studies creative writing at St Mary’s University in California. Read her reflections on daring to be a peacemaker; how it’s not that daunting really, and that we’d be surprised how things add up.   “Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.” Psalm 34:14

The seventh instalment of your YPN conference blog series is brought to you by Sarah Hine from the Darvell Community in Sussex. Here she describes every day protest for God and challenges us to live out the peace of Jesus. Living Out Peace It is easy to talk about peace when you live in a

Matt Jeziorski is the education coordinator for Pax Christi, a Catholic peace organisation actively educating and campaigning for a more just and peaceful world. Here are his reflections on the message Pope Francis gave on New Year’s Day and how we might accept the challenge of peace. Reflection on Pope Francis’s message for World Peace

Andii Bowsher is the co-convenor of the Newcastle’s joint universities Martin Luther King Peace Committee and Anglican chaplain to Northumbria University. He explains why peace is more inherent to life than violence, particularly for Christians. We interrupt this war … Christmas Eve 2014 sees the centenary of the unofficial Christmas truces. They commonly began with