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Pax Christi USA

• REGIONAL EVENT: Rev. John Dear, SJ to speak at Atlanta church
• IMMIGRATION: Religion and immigration – We have not yet begun to love
• PAX CHRISTI INTERNATIONAL: February newsletter from PCI now online
• RESOURCES: Webinars this winter and spring with author, Scripture scholar Ched Myers
• HUMAN RIGHTS: Number of elderly prisoners soaring in U.S.

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 […]