Pax Christi Metro DC-Baltimore | Archive for 2007 October

Date archive for October, 2007

Pax Christi USA Bishop-President Gabino Zavala Elevates Call to Abolish War

10/31/07
Feast of Saint Marcellus the Centurion, October 30

10/30/07
Benedict XVI: Religion Is Not a Vehicle of Hate Urges Promotion of the “Spirit of Assisi”

10/28/07
Catholic Relief Services on the Farm Bill

10/27/07
Restore Habeus Corpus Now!

10/25/07
Mennonites Hear Benedict XVI’s Call for Unity

10/24/07
Support Fr. Steve Kelly, SJ and Fr. Louie Vitale, OFM

10/22/07
Seven Protesters Arrested at Blackwater’s Headquarters

10/22/07
At the Foot of the Cross: Rufina Amaya, Presente!

10/21/07
The Reign of God or The Reign of Empire?

10/18/07
Stand Up Against Poverty!

10/16/07
Boliva to Withdraw from Training at the SOA

10/15/07
Jubilee Act of 2007: National Call-in Day on October 15

10/13/07
October 21 Peace Liturgy at White House

10/11/07
Pax Christi USA at the Beatification of Franz Jägerstätter

10/09/07
October 8: Interfaith Fast to End the War in Iraq

10/06/07
Greater Washington Interfaith Power and Light Announces First Annual Summit

10/05/07
Join the Multi-Faith Fast for Peace on October 8

10/03/07
Iraq Moratorium Begins

10/01/07

On the Road to Peace

Activist recalls bloody train incident, nonviolent life in new book
On Sept. 1, 1987, one of the most dedicated peace activists in the nation sat down with friends on the train tracks outside the Concord Naval Weapons Station near the Bay Area in California to block a U.S. Navy Munitions train loaded with weapons bound for Nicaragua and El Salvador. read more […]
Raising the question of peace outside churches of all faiths
Last summer, 85-year-old Mennonite peace activist Peter Ediger decided to take his passion for peace to the churches in Las Vegas, where he lives. Peter works for Pace e Bene, the Franciscan nonviolence program. Like many of us, he's concerned that the churches in the United States are ignoring, if not blatantly rejecting, the nonviolence of Jesus. So h […]
What Martin Luther King Jr. can teach us about nonviolence
To mark Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, I've been reflecting on the principles of nonviolence that he learned during the historic yearlong bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala. After Rosa Parks refused to sit in the back of the bus, broke the segregation law and was arrested on Dec. 1, 1955, the African-American leadership in Montgomery famously c […]