Events

Each year, a leaflet of prayers and inspirational quotations for peace is drawn from the major religious traditions of the world including Baha'i, Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jain, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh and Zoroastrian religions. At the London, annual event, members of all the faiths are invited to take part and contribute from their own faith resources. […]

APFMembers Day & AGM 2018. We will be welcoming APF Trustee Nathaniel Pierce to speak on "Poverty, Pollution, Pistols and Peace."  And Wycliffe Hall ordinand Jonathan Price will be reporting on the Community of the Cross of Nails Youth Gathering.  Before the AGM we will celegrate the Annual APF Eucharist. Lunch will be provided.

Caroline Lucas MP will be giving the MAW Annual Remembrance Lecture, entitled "Active Remembrance & Waging Peace Together." Ms Lucas is co-Leader of the Green Party and has been MP for Brighton Pavilion since 2010 when she became the Green Party's first MP. She is well known as a campaigner and writer on green economics, localisation, alternatives to […]

Come and join the Act of Remembrance to be held outside the west door of Westminster Abbey. The outside service will last for 30 minutes and has support of the Abbey authorities. Resources for Acts of Remembrance and marking the Armistice Centenary can be found here.

A touring exhibition, sponsored by the Anglican Pacifist Fellowship, which explores perspectives on peace from three Abrahamic religions – Judaism, Christianity and Islam is being welcomed by Bradford Cathedral in November 2018.  This exhibition looks at the way in which the three faiths promote peace – in their teaching, and in the lives of their […]

Serious remembrance of wars calls for serious work for peace. A ceremony of Remembrance and Peace 100 years after the end of the First World War, with speaker(s), to be held in Tavistock Square, London, WC1. Organisations and local groups are encouraged to publicise this and also plan their own events.   Organised by the […]

Serious Remembrance of Wars Calls for Serious Work for Peace Drop by at Friends House, Euston Road, London, to meet peace activists and find out about current peace campaigns. (No previous experience necessary!)   Café, live music, films, books, stalls, with children’s programme led by Woodcraft Folk. As well as the organisations which make up the […]

As World War I has come to represent war in essence (at least for Western Europe), so Armistice Day serves to represent peace. It is worth our while, as thinking and intentional beings, to give some proper consideration to peace. Peace is more than just an absence of killing, persecution, and forced flight. I know that to […]

Can we find hope in times of conflict – personal, communal, international? EXPLORING CREATIVE APPROACHES TO PEACEMAKING Keynote Speaker - Pádraig Ó Tuama, Leader of the Corrymeela Community Rev. Simon Taylor, Baptist Chaplain, will chair. GROUP DISCUSSIONS JO BERRY, founder of charity Building Bridges for Peace, whose father died in the Brighton bombing; her dialogue with […]

Reflecting on Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day and Daniel Berrigan. Pax Christi are hosting this event with Jim Forest.  A writer, activist, co-founder of the Catholic Peace Fellowship in the United Stated, Jim knew, worked with and has written on Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day and Daniel Berrigan. Hosted by Pax Christi with the Thomas Merton Society of […]