How will your church community mark this day in the Church’s calendar? The theme that Pope Leo has announced is ‘Peace be with you all: towards an ‘unarmed and disarming’ […]
Peace
6 Dec – Peace Sunday: 18th January 2026
World Day of Peace is celebrated by the Catholic Church each year on 1st January, the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God. Building on this, the Catholic Bishops of England […]
7 Aug – Memorial for the Children of Gaza on 23 Aug
by Carol Burns, Leeds Diocese Pax Christi member
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]