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Video Clips from the Christian Peace Witness for Iraq

Christians of many faith traditions gathered in Washington, DC on April 29-30 to worship and witness together, restate our convictions and measure our nation’s progress in the difficult tasks ahead. Watch the video clips below of selected speakers and preachers from the April 29 worship service at National City Christian Church in Washington, DC.

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A Lenten Meditation

A Lenten Meditation
Contemporary Adaptation of Isaiah 58: 1-12
by Art Laffin
Shout out, don’t hold back.
Lift up your voice like a trumpet.
The US government is the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.
The Pentagon, CIA, NSA, and corporate, political, and military  powers worldwide conspire to control the earth, crush the poor, and persecute the peace and justice [...]

Holy Innocents Faith & Resistance Retreat

[ December 28, 2008 to December 30, 2008. ] St. Stephen & the
Incarnation Church
16th & Newton Streets NW
Washington D.C.
“Let the children come to me! The horror of the last few years… the lives lost… Who were they? Who are those who are being killed today? Who will be blown up, shot and tortured tomorrow? Which family will lose its child nest?”
Lily Hamourtziadou, The Week [...]

Huong: A Portrait of the Artist as a Peacemaker

Huong spoke with Pax Christi Metro DC at the Peace Mural in Georgetown.
As a refugee, I belong to the fourth world, the people who have no country. I was born in Vietnam in 1950, at the beginning of the Vietnam War. I became a refugee for the first time at age four, moving from North [...]

Remembering the Martyrs in a Season of Advent

By Scott Wright
This past November 21-23, for the nineteenth consecutive year, thousands of people from across the United States and from all walks of life converged on the military base in Ft. Benning, Georgia to call for the closing of “the School of the Americas,” a school that has trained so many assassins and torturers [...]

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