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Prayers and Petitions: A Call for Advent Prayer and Action

Our hearts ache as we continue to long for peace. Whether you are reminded of this longing by listening to news of increasing violence in our world or the approaching Advent of Christ, let us join together in praying and acting for peace this Christmas. Join North American Mennonites and be creative in an effort […]

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Pentecostal Charismatic Peace Fellowship

Like other Christian peace fellowships, we work within our own traditions and heritages to promote the peace of Christ while also cooperating with fellow believers from other parts of the body. http://www.pcpf.org/index.php

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International Campaign To Abolish Nuclear Weapons

ICAN has been launched by doctors and medical professionals working in 60 countries, joining with mayors, civil society groups and prominent persons to demand a Nuclear Weapons Convention. http://www.icanw.org/

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BHP Billiton shareholders call for moral stand on lucrative trade

The world’s biggest mining company is facing a revolt from shareholders who want the group to stop excavating uranium. Activist plan to use the annual meeting of BHP Billiton, which last year made record-breaking profits of $13.4bn (£6.7bn), to force the company to take a “moral stand” and pull out of the highly profitable trade […]

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International Day of Prayer for Peace

This coming 21 September Christians from Congo to the US, and from Colombia to Switzerland to South Korea will join in prayers during the International Day of Prayer for Peace. On that day, women at the Socopao Limete Presbyterian Church in the Democratic Republic of Congo – a country where a five-year war has claimed […]

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TEAR Australia

TEAR Australia is a movement of Christians in Australia responding to the needs of poor communities around the world. Our motivation comes from our belief that God loves all people, and in Christ offers them the opportunity of a new life. We believe that God is just, and has particular care for the poor and […]

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Servants To Asia’s Urban Poor

Servants to Asia’s Urban Poor is an international movement: a network of Christian teams living and working amongst the urban poor in Asia’s mega cities, participating with the poor to bring hope and justice through Jesus Christ. http://www.servantsasia.org/

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Local Power

Local Power is a group of people interested in sustainable power generation which is local and community owned. PV solar based electricity is one way we can help make this happen. Our first project is establishing a buying group for PV solar panels. http://localpower.net.au/index.html

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Waiters Union

The Waiters Union is a network of residents in West End who are committed to developing a sense of community in the locality with our neighbours, including those who are marginalised, in the radical tradition of Jesus of Nazareth. http://www.waitersunion.org/

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Christian Peacemaker Teams

Is CPT a missionary organization? NO. CPT is a peacemaking organization focussed on reducing violence and protecting human rights in conflict zones. CPT does not participate in any missionary activities. Christian Peacemaker Teams was founded in 1984 by three historic peace churches, Mennonite, Church of the Brethren and Quaker, and now enjoys support and membership […]

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Vision of Humanity

The Vision of Humanity website was launched in May 2007 as the reference point for the Global Peace Index (GPi) and to highlight the relationship between Global Peace and Sustainability. It is our very firm belief that unless we can achieve a world which is basically peaceful, then the major challenges facing humanity will not […]

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ANZ Jesus Radicals

South Pacific Christian Anarchists is an emerging network of people interested in exploring common threads in Christian and Anarchist traditions, practices and vision as they pertain to our part of the planet. http://anz.jesusradicals.com/index.html 

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