SAVE THE DATE: FILM SCREENING OF ‘THERE IS ANOTHER WAY’We will be showing this film on Friday 21 November 2025 (doors open 6:30pm) at St Chad’s parish hall, Otley Road,Far Headingley, Leeds, LS16 5JTFor a third year in a row, SPARK is sponsoring one of the films in this year’s Leeds Palestinian Film Festival. It […]
Peace
22 Sep – Trees of Hope Update
The Commission are delighted to announce that we have recently received £5,000 for this project from the Sisters of St Joseph of Peace.We have mentioned the project in previous news articles. We obtained some seeds and some one year old ginkgo tree saplings that originate from a tree that was in the blast zone of […]
11 Sep – Commission Planning Meeting
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 […]
16 Aug – October Day Retreat: Sustaining Hope in Today’s World
Saturday October 11 202510:30am – 4pm So many terrible things are happening in the world today. How do we cope? Where do we look to find signs of Hope? Earlier in 2025 we welcomed Fr Luis Orlando to give the Romero Lecture. People attending were moved by his descriptions of his work with the families of the disappeared […]
26 July – Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the end of the Second World War, 80 years on
by Sean Morris, Commission member Over the past 12 months, commemorations have taken place to remember the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. These have included the 80th anniversary of D-day, remembering VE Day on 8th May and soon there will be commemorations for the formal end of the war […]
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 […]