The International Movement for a Just World (JUST), Pax Christi Australia and the Uniting Church in Australia, Commission for Mission, Synod of Victoria and Tasmania, have jointly launched a project to promote ‘Alternatives to Empire’. The statement of Purpose of the project is published below: http://www.just-international.org/Commentary/E%20News%20May%2007.htm

The New Friars: The Emerging Movement Serving the World’s Poor In The New Friars Scott Bessenecker profiles young Christians who have voluntarily removed themselves from the status quo in order to seek justice and mercy with the poorest of the world’s poor. These new friars are carrying on the work of the monastic tradition, the […]

PUNDONG, Indonesia – Last year when an earthquake demolished homes in this largely Muslim community, the Indonesian Mennonite Diakonal Service (MDS) organized with local Muslim groups to rebuild homes. In this context where Muslim and Christian communities have sometimes clashed, a four-member Youth Evangelism Service (YES) team served for most of January through April 2007. […]

NZ ranks highly on first Global Peace Index New Zealand ranks highly on first Global Peace Index – Prime Minister Helen Clark today said New Zealand’s long history of working towards peace and security has been recognised with its 2nd place ranking on the inaugural Global Peace Index launched in London overnight. http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0705/S00783.htm

Miroslav Volf, director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture, recently published The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World. As Volf calls Christians to remember with redemptive purpose, he recounts his personal struggle to cope with memories of interrogations by Communist officials in his native Croatia, then part of Yugoslavia. http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2007/may/2.50.html

It was said of Francis that he “walked the earth like the pardon of God.” His dying words to those brothers who had followed him with love and fidelity were “I have finished my work. May God give you to do yours.” What is the work that Franciscans for over more than eight hundred years […]

The activities of courageous Christians in Zimbabwe could be chapters in a new, politicized version of the book of Acts. Christians have long been in the forefront of challenging the brutal autocratic rule of Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe, and in January eight church leaders were arrested by security forces as they and hundreds of supporters […]

(From Christian Peacemakers Team) In Hebron, Palestine, two local community activists Issa Amro and Zleekha Muhtaseb, along with Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) and Terres des hommes (Tdh) (Hebron Community Mental Health Program) are supporting a new “Sports for Kids” initiative in Hebron Old City. Participants in the newly formed football/soccer team are boys aged between […]

Hundreds of women from around the world took to their bicycles in Lebanon on Tuesday to pedal for regional peace. The third annual “Follow the Women – Women for Peace” bike tour completed its first leg around Lebanon with nearly 250 women riding from Sidon to Beirut – a journey of 50 kilometres that took […]

On April 1, Palm Sunday, a group of Jews and Palestinians gathered beneath a banner at Prince Alfred Park, Parramatta to take part in a Peace March. The banner read “Palestinians and Jews for Peace and Justice”. It began with a simple idea during a meeting with seemingly incongruent groups of people, who had been […]

. Tracey Makamae 17th October, 2006. My daughter’s 23rd Birthday- it’s 1:40 am and I’m sitting in the departure lounge at Darwin Airport terminal, wide awake after a double-shot latte.. Four other activists and I face Alice Springs court this morning in a non-violent peace protest at the gates of Pine Gap facility last week. […]

Ava Lowery is the 16 year old peace activist from Alabama behind the website, PeaceTakesCourage.com, and has received an amazing amount of attention. Ava’s animations show the multidimensional tragedy of the Iraq war- losses of brave young soldiers to American families, and loss of innocent civilians in Iraq. Poignant and raw, Ava’s youth and sincerity […]