The South African NGO Khulisa works toward building stronger communities and addressing crime in a way that brings healing. This video highlights Khulisa’s work with restorative justice and offers an excellent introduction to restorative justice. http://www.restorativejustice.org/editions/2007/june07/vrkhulisa

We are surrounded by a “cloud of witnesses,” says the author of Hebrews (12:1). Many of these witnesses are saints or holy persons who have made an art of peacemaking, justice building, and social transformation. In this series of posters Leo Hartshorn has created images of these artisans, along with their memorable quotes, as a […]

“Peace is not the product of terror. Peace is not the silence of cemeteries. Peace is not the silent result of violent repression. Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all. Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty.” – Oscar Romero

This is an incredible and inspiring story, related by Rev. Christian Fuhrer of how the beatitudes helped bring down the Berlin Wall… (Thanks to Glen Powell for this link). The events in fall 1989 “Nikolaikirche – open to all” became reality in autumn 1989 and surprised us all. After all, it united people from the […]

http://paceebene.org/pace/www.kevcarmody.com.au “Cannot Buy My Soul” If you ever wanted an intro to the work of one of Australia’s most significant musicians as well as his music covered by over 16 of Australia’s most exciting contemporary musicians (from The John Butler Trio, the Waifs, Bernard Fanning and many others) then this is the album to get. […]

The Output Outcome Downstream Impact Blues by Terry Smutylo for anyone who has had to assess impacts of development programs for funders http://www.idrc.ca/uploads/user-S/10960530301karaoke.swf

Dear friends, Last week, Avaaz campaigners hand-delivered our 100,000-signature climate change petition to the environment ministers of the world’s most polluting countries. It worked. The chair of the meeting waved the petition in the air, calling on his fellow ministers to act–and they agreed that climate change would be the #1 issue at the G8 […]

Do you sometimes need a bit of motivation to take action? Do you like good music with meaningful lyrics? Do you want to support the Pine Gap 4 as we head towards trial? Well, it just so happens we can cater for all these needs.    Rise Up and Speak the Truth is a compilation CD with […]

Here at the WCC’s Keeping the Faith site you can find wonderful multimedia stories of local communities of faith keeping it real and through faith, hope and love, making a difference in our world. There are also warnings, like the story from Rwanda, of what can happen when we fail to be the change we […]

I am proud to say that I am a Christian: for it is the faith that is dearly and preciously held by many of the poorest peoples of the earth. Of course, what implications this faith has for somebody as rich as I am is no doubt going to be profoundly different in many respects […]

Video: From Little Things Big Things Grow – Make Poverty History Kev Carmody, John Butler and Paul Kelly perform From Little Things Big Things Grow at the Make Poverty History concert in Melbourne 2006. . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tHEGo-g3mw

This year on Martin Luther King Day everyone will be reading — or should be reading — Dr. King’s famous denunciation of the Vietnam war: “A Time To Break Silence.” For those of us working to end the war in Iraq, it holds a valuable lesson: Once we’ve expressed our moral outrage, we’ve only just […]