by Sarah Maguire | Mar 24, 2025 | News
Peace activist, and Nobel Prize winner Mairead Maguire has begun a 40 day fast for the children of Gaza. Mairead Maguire won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976, along with Betty Williams for her work in founding Women for Peace, which worked to bring about peace in...
by Sarah Maguire | Feb 18, 2025 | News
This month, our peace prayers are being hosted by APF’s Israel-Palestine Working Group. The title is Blessed are the Peacemakers ~ Praying for Peace in the Holy Land. It will be a mixture of prayer, music and reflections. Date: Thursday, 20 February 2025/ Friday...
by Sarah Maguire | Dec 17, 2024 | News
APF Chair Sue Claydon has joined over 200 Christian bishops and other leaders from over 40 countries in signing a petition calling for an end to the humanitarian catastrophe of the war in Gaza and to bring about peace in the wider Middle East. Organised by Churches...
by Sarah Maguire | Oct 25, 2024 | News
APF are proud signatories of a Joint Statement signed by over 150 NGOs calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, Lebanon and Israel. Below is the Press Release shared by co-ordinating group Crisis Action. You can read the statement together with the list of...
by Sarah Maguire | Oct 9, 2024 | News
One year on from 7th October 2023 an atrocity leading to a year of violence, death and destruction on a huge scale, it can be difficult to find words to respond adequately in the face of such loss and bitterness. APF Counsellor Bishop Philip Huggins of Melbourne has...