This is a partnership event between the J&P Commission, Pax Christi in the Leeds Diocese and the Leeds Palestinian Film Festival.
Join a conversation on the issue of non-violence with Palestinian activist and academic Mahmoud Zwahre and Andrew Rigby, Emeritus Professor of Peace Studies
Illustrated with film by West Bank filmmakers
Includes updates from the West Bank and the significance of ‘Sumud’ in the Palestinian struggle.
Mahmoud Zwahre is a leading activist and organiser in popular non-violent resistance against settler violence in the West Bank and currently a scholar at Coventry University
Andrew Rigby has researched and written about unarmed resistance in the Occupied Palestinian Territories since the 1980s, activities informed by his deep commitment to nonviolence as practice and principle.
Use the button to book a place (£5 waged, £3 unwaged)
The Diocese is bringing back its Laudato Si’ Mini Pilgrimages and events: one for each ‘Season of Creation’
Anyone thinking of going should email communications@dioceseofleeds.org.uk with their name, parish and a mobile phone number.
( note that this was originally going to take place on May 24th but the date had to be changed)
Originally scheduled for 08 May, Austen was unable to make that date as he was part of the BBC teamcovering the election of the new pope.
You are invited to join the Northern Dioceses Environment Group and the Southern Dioceses Environment Network for this evening of celebration for the 10th Anniversary of Laudato Si’ – On the Care of Our Common Home.
The publication of the papal encyclical, Laudato Si‘, galvanised Catholics around the world and in every country to unite with those of all other faiths and none in the common cause of caring for our home planet and all the people on it.
Pope Francis urged us to integrate questions of justice into our debates on the environment, ‘so as to hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor’ – for they are one and the same thing. (LS, 49)
Both the Northern and Southern environment groups grew out of a desire to put the teaching of the encyclical into practice.
In this meeting our speaker and facilitator, Austen Ivereigh, will help us to reflect on where we have come in the last ten years and what we are being called to do in the next ten.
Anyone who registered for the original zoom is asked to re-register – so we know how many to expect (there is a limit).
Register to receive the link
This is the Annual conference of the National Justice & Peace Network.
Full details are still to be made available. However, Dr Rowan Williams has already been booked and several workshops are known to be going ahead with several others still under discussion.
Never a cheap weekend! – but usually interesting and a unique annual opportunity to meet J&P supporters from across the country.
Updates will be made when they become available.
Aged 18-30? SPARK Social Justice will be offering sponsorship for a limited number of people. email info@sparksocialjustice.org.uk if this is of interest.
Today is the start of the Season of Creation – which runs until October 4th (the feast of St Francis of Assisi).
How will you celebrate this Season of the Church’s Year in your church community?
The theme for 2025 is ‘Peace with Creation’. Creation will find peace when justice is restored.
There is still hope and the expectation for a peaceful Earth.
For ideas, use this link:-
Season of Creation website
This is a ‘save the date’ notification for the next Northern Dioceses’ Environment Group (NDEG) in-person meeting.
The idea is to meet up at Leeds Cathedral, walk down to the Leeds and Liverpool canal (by the dark arches underneath Leeds City Station) and then walk along the canal towpath to get to Kirkstall Abbey (about 4 miles in total) and do it as ‘Pilgrims of Hope’.
More details to follow soon – but put it in your diary now if it sounds of interest.
