20Sep 2016 by peacepeople

Mairead Maguire Speech At The ” INTERNATIONAL MEETING – THIRST FOR PEACE ASSISI 18TH- 20TH SEPTEMBER, 20l6″

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Dear Friends, I am happy to be here at this International Meeting and I would like to thank our hosts, for their invitation to attend. I have always been inspired by the lives of St. Francis and St. Clare, whom I believe are Icons of Christian Gospel Peace and Nonviolence. Francis the man of action, steeped in empathy and love for all, and Clare a woman of prayer, whose love of God led her into the depth of mysticism and peace. Francis and Clare lived in a time of violence and war, yet they choose to live the nonkilling/ nonviolence of Jesus. Francis as a youth fighting in his local military, knew well how to wield a sword, yet he choose to follow the command of Jesus to Peter, when…
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23Mar 2016 by peacepeople

NOBEL PEACE LAUREATE CALLS ON UK END ARMS SALES TO SAUDIA ARABIA AND SAUDIS TO END THEIR BOMBING CAMPAIGN IN YEMEN

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Nobel Peace Laureate, Mairead Maguire, today called for Britain to stop breaking national and international law by selling arms o Saudi Arabia. Britain has sold £2.8 billion worth of arms to Saudi Arabia since the Saudi Government began its bombing campaign in Yemen last year. The British Government is also providing direct military assistance to Saudi Arabia and continues to remain silent on the UN reports of Saudi war crimes against the civilian population of Yemen. Thousands of people have died and millions of Yemeni people are going hungry and thousands of children out of school as their schools, homes and towns, have been destroyed in the course of the ongoing bombing of Yemen by Saudi Government and Military. Maguire called on people in the UK to write to their…
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