Peace is Possible
A newsletter for friends of Pax Christi International
"The invitation of the risen Christ should cause us to renounce once and for all what is superfluous, to save what is deeper and more true in us and between and among us."

Easter Message from Pax Christi Co-Presidents
Sr Teresia Wamuyu Wachira (IBVM)
and Bishop Marc Stenger

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75 Years for Peace
This year we celebrate 75 years since the birth of the Pax Christi movement. Throughout 2020 we are celebrating our peace work in different ways. Even though this is a challenging time, we continue in our mission and are inspired by our pioneers to spread a message of peace, reconciliation, and active nonviolence through the world.

By supporting Pax Christi International you will contribute to our mission to make the world a better place. Pax Christi facilitates and supports reconciliation, active nonviolence and peacebuilding processes; we are involved with conflict prevention and resolution as well as community-based empowerment.
World Gathering 2021
New dates! The World Gathering will take place from 24 to 28 May, 2021 in Hiroshima . We will re-confirm registration starting in September. We will be posting reflections on our website and social media throughout the week of 18 to 22 May this year. This will help mark the time we should have been in Hiroshima, pray for the world, and celebrate the Pax Christi movement. For all questions about the World Gathering, please email Erin Green, e.green@paxchristi.net .
Justice and Solidarity: Pax Christi in Africa and Latin America
Meet our Africa Regional Coordinator Dieudonné Serukabuza and learn more about Pax Christi International peacebuilding activities in Africa.
Meet our Latin America Regional Coordinator Martha Inés Romero and learn more about the important advocacy and solidarity work carried out in Latin America.
Advocacy and Capacity Building
Solidarity with Amazonian Indigenous Peoples
In solidarity with indigenous organisations, federations and nationalities at the Amazon regional level, Pax Christi International co-signed a statement to express deep concern about the impending threat of COVID-19 in their ancestral territories and communities.

Democracy and Human Rights: Let us defend European values
Together with other Christian-inspired organisations who are members of the Conference of International Non-Governmental Organisations of the Council of Europe, Pax Christi condemned the contemptuous response of Hungarian President Viktor Orbán to the Council of Europe.

Ease Middle East Sanctions
The co-presidents of Pax Christi International, international board members and Pax Christi sections have addressed a letter to President Trump, Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, to express deep concern for the people of the Middle East during this time of pandemic.

Honouring Religious Sisters
in DR Congo
More than 20 years of war and armed conflict have weakened the civilian population of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In particular, women, girls and children are most often the victims of all forms of violence.

For International Women's Day, we introduced our movement to religious sisters who are making a difference in their communities. They are often the only aid and social structures to which vulnerable people and victims of violence have access.

Pax Christi International provides these women with the means to make a difference through training in active nonviolence. Thanks to this support, these sisters improve the care of victims and open up new perspectives on a less violent and more serene world.

Take time to get to know these powerful, peacemaking women through our photo action for International Women's Day .
Pandemic Response
Our members respond
Pax Christi members everywhere are responding to the pandemic in their communities. The movement is coming together through advocacy, prayer, and joint action. We have collected many responses here , including a powerful song from Blackman sent to us from our member Africa Reconciled. If you have a contribution for this page, please email Erin Green at e.green@paxchristi.net .
Across borders and time zones
Pax Christi International has been bringing members together in online meetings to listen, learn, and develop our response to the global COVID-19 pandemic. So far we have had meetings with our section leaders, Latin America and Africa region representatives, and the working group on nuclear disarmament.
Deepening Catholic Thought on Nonviolence
In May we will publish " Advancing Nonviolence and Just Peace ," an eagerly awaited book bringing together the results of five roundtables and research projects dedicated to advancing nonviolence throughout the church.

The book is the fruit of a global, participatory process facilitated by the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative, a project of Pax Christi International, to deepen Catholic understanding of and commitment to Gospel nonviolence.

Nonviolence is critical to the life of the Catholic Church and essential to the work of fostering a culture of peace, disarmament and development.This book includes biblical, theological, ethical, pastoral and strategic resources that might serve as a contribution to Catholic thought on nonviolence.
Pax Christi Recommends
Our partners at CIDSE are joining in the 5th anniversary celebrations of Laudato Si' with a series of online events. They will take place from 16 to 20 May. The topic is "Everything is connected" and you can learn more and register through the website Laudato Si' Week Activities .
Released in 2019, this film tells a fictionalised story about the meeting of Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis as they forge a future for the Catholic Church. It is widely available on Netflix.
The Stockholm International Peace Forum will be held online this year from 11 to 20 May. The focus is sustaining peace in the time of COVID-19. For more information and to register, please click here.
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