Saturday 27 September at Hinsley Hall from 10:30 until 14:30Our quarterly meetings are usually hybrid affairs, with some of us joining via Zoom and some people together in a meeting room at Hinsley Hall. However, once a year we get together for an extended meeting to reflect on what we have done in the past […]
Palestine
7 Aug – Memorial for the Children of Gaza on 23 Aug
by Carol Burns, Leeds Diocese Pax Christi member
1 Aug – Only 1000 miles to go!
Tim’s 3431 mile fundraising ride for Medical Aid for Palestiniansby Tim DevereuxPudsey cyclist Tim Devereux says “I have now been riding for 200 days, and am within 1000 miles of my goal! Since the start of the year, I’ve been riding every day (except 2), averaging 12 miles each day. I’m aiming to get to […]
20 July – INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL FOR WOMENS’ CINEMA – IN GAZA!
By Joe Burns, Commission member
3 July – A HISTORY OF STARVATION IN GAZA
By Carol Burns, Leeds Pax ChristiThe starvation of the people of Gaza didn’t just happen in the last two years; it has being going on for one hundred years.This is the main theme of a new book by Leeds author E Mark Windle which was sent to the Justice and Peace Commission in June. This […]
21 May – Conversations about Nonviolence
By Carol Burns, Leeds Diocese Pax ChristiAt a packed Wheeler Hall on Saturday 17th May, Mahmoud Zwahre, a Palestinian activist from the West Bank, currently a scholar at Coventry University, spoke both eloquently and passionately about his experience of non-violent – or ‘unarmed’ – resistance in the West Bank. He has been active in the […]