Year: 2016

On behalf of myself and community of the peace people, I would like to express our deepest sympathy to the friends, families and neighbours of the victims in Orlando, USA. Please know you are in our thoughts and prayers and we love you very much. Also to our LGBTQI sisters and brothers and their families in Orlando, and around the world please know that you are all in our prayers and thoughts on these days of sadness and pain for your community. Please know that people around the world are with you all – we grieve with you, we cry with you, we are truly sorry for your great loss. . When 49 of your beloved, were murdered and 53 more were wounded in Orlando, USA on Sunday morning (12th…

Maguire in a press release said: ‘On 8th May, 2016 the Jerusalem Magistrate Court charged Mordechai Vanunu with breaching the ongoing severe and arbitrary restrictions against his rights to Freedom of movement and expression. The Israeli Court charged Vanunu that he had a meeting with two US Nationals three years ago, also that he gave an interview to Israeli Broadcaster Channel 2 in Sept., 2015 (for which he was punished the same month) and that he moved his residence (within the same building!) without informing the Police. Mordechai Vanunu, an Amnesty International Prisoner of conscience, a nobel peace prize nominee, recipient of Right Livelihood Award and numerous other awards, by the International community, in recognition of his courage in following his conscience and revealing to the world that Israel was…

It was a joy for me to join eighty people from around the World meeting in Rome ll/12th April, 2016, to contribute to the important discussion ‘Nonviolence and Just Peace Contributing to the Catholic Understanding of and Commitment to Nonviolence’. Members of the three day event co-hosted by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and the International Catholic Peace Movement Organization, Pax Christi, strongly called on Pope Francis ‘to share with the world an encyclical on nonviolence and Just Peace; and on the Church to ‘no longer use or teach ‘just war theory’; and continue advocating for the abolition of war and nuclear weapons’. The statement of Appeal to the Pope also said: ‘we believe there is no ‘just war’. Too often the ‘just war theory’ has been used…

When the President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, the Irish Military, Government Members, and many Irish people gathered in Dublin, on Easter Sunday (27th March,2016) to remember the Easter Rising of l9l6, some of his challenging words were addressed to the young generation. He encouraged them ‘to imagine and to dream ‘ and he said ‘ we wish them well as they make music and continue to dream’. The Leaders of l9l6 had political hopes and dreams. President Higgins said ‘For the leaders of l9l6, their political hopes and aspirations for what a free Irish Republic might be, were linked to a rich Irish culture which they cherished and promoted. Within that vision, their ancient Irish language and culture, informed by our history and migration, was central to everything for…