Finding the strength to pursue a just peace
Kingston, Jamaica (WCC) — In war-torn or violent communities – and perhaps in so-called peaceful ones – reaching a state of just peace takes strength and courage. Participants at the International...
View ArticlePope salutes ecumenical peace convocation
Kingston, Jamaica (WCC) — Pope Benedict XVI saluted the International Ecumenical Peace Convocation (IEPC) on Sunday, praying that “every act of violence is eliminated.” Before 30,000 people gathered at...
View ArticleWhat does “God’s security” look like?
Lisa Schirch of Eastern Mennonite University participates on panel Kingston, Jamaica (WCC) — As a 10-year-old schoolgirl, on 6 August 1945, at 8:15 a.m., Setsuko Thurlow, then Nakamura, suddenly saw a...
View ArticlePeacemaking can be rooted in theology and mission
Mennonite ecumenist Thomas Finger leads workshop Kingston, Jamaica (WCC) — Making peace, as an integral part of the life of church mission and witness, has not been as common as one might think....
View ArticlePeace message closes convocation, but work has only begun
KIngston, Jamaica (WCC) — Participants at the International Ecumenical Peace Convocation (IEPC) released a message on Tuesday expressing their unified experience of a week-long exploration of a just...
View ArticleCanadian Mennonite reports on ecumenical peace convocation
Canadian Mennonite magazine has just published a report on the International Ecumenical Peace Convocation held in May in Jamaica. The article draws on some of the news releases already posted here at...
View ArticleMessage of International Ecumenical Peace Convocation:“Churches can teach...
The final message of the International Ecumenical Peace Convocation, held in Jamaica in May, closes by highlighting the witness of historic peace churches, and insisting that all churches can teach...
View ArticleFernando Enns publishes new book on ecumenism and peace
Fernando Enns, Professor of Mennonite Peace Theology and Ethics at the University of Amsterdam has recently published a new book Ökumene und Frieden (Ecumenism and Peace). In it Enns shows how...
View ArticleNew resource: Just Peace: Ecumenical, Intercultural, and Interdisciplinary...
Christian theology and ethics have wrestled with the challenge to apply Jesus’s central message of nonviolence to the injustices of this world. Is it not right to defend the persecuted by using...
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