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 […]
Peace
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 […]
15 May – Habemus Papam!
by Kathy Shaw, SPARK managerCardinal Robert Prevost has been elected pope and will be known as Pope Leo XIVPope Leo XIV holds dual citizenship in both the US and Peru where he served as a bishop. He spent much of his career as a missionary in South America where he is fondly remembered as a […]