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07Nov 2020 by peacepeople

PAX CHRISTI ANNUAL PEACEMAKER OF THE YEAR AWARD PRESENTED TO MALACHY KILBRIDE ON 7th NOVEMBER, 2020, AT CONFERENCE IN METRO D.C. BALTIMORE. VIDEO LINK TALK BY MAIREAD MAGUIRE, NOBEL PEACE LAUREATE.

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Dear friends, I am very happy to join you by video link and to send you all greetings to your Pax Christi Metro DC-Baltimore online event. I would like to thank my friend Marie Denis for giving me this opportunity to greet you. I would like particularly to offer my congratulations to Malachy Kilbride on receiving the Pax Christi Peacemaker of the Year Award. I believe as a lifetime peace activist and with the national campaign for nonviolent resistance you have been arrested on numerous occasions for civil disobedience so your example will inspire others to work for peace. Thank you Malachy, for your courage in challenging the military industrial complex and speaking up for truth that weapons and war are not acceptable as they kill humans and destroy…

07Aug 2020 by peacepeople

75th Anniversary of Hiroshima

Nobel peace laureate Mairead Maguire calls for "The abolition of genocidal nuclear weapons, war and nuclear scientists to refuse to make genocidal weapons which threaten humanity with extinction". On 6th August 2020, the 75th anniversary of the genocidal bombing of Hiroshima and on 10th August 2020 the genocidal bombing of Nagasaki, by USA military, people around the world will remember these acts of criminality against unarmed civilians in Japan. Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate, of The Peace People, Belfast, called for the abolition of genocidal nuclear weapons and said - ‘I support the International Campaign against Nuclear weapons/Global Harmony Association proposed Anti-nuclear Manifesto for the salvation of humanity from the all-consuming suicidal genocidal nuclear fire, first tested 75 years ago on civilians in Hiroshima/Nagasaki, 250,000 of whom we burned alive and many…

04Aug 2020 by peacepeople

John Hume: Family ask mourners to light a candle at home in remembrance for him.

John Hume, SDLP leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner

John Hume's family has asked mourners to refrain from lining the streets of his native city, as his body returns home ahead of his funeral. Instead, they have asked people to light a "candle for peace" at their homes at 21:00 on Tuesday due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. In a statement, the Hume family said the "heartfelt and sincere" condolences they had received since announcing his death had been "immensely comforting". They said he would leave his home in Moville, County Donegal, on Tuesday evening and return to St Eugene's Cathedral in Londonderry. "John loved the people of Derry and Donegal," they said. "We know he would have prioritised public health and the safety and health of our communities. We're asking people to follow that guidance, please do not…

04Aug 2020 by peacepeople

John Hume, SDLP leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner

John Hume – RIP It’s with deepest sympathy I offer my condolences to Pat Hume and family on the death of John. He did so much for peace in Ireland and for this we will all be forever grateful. Mairead Maguire Nobel Laureate

03Aug 2020 by clive

Remembrance Gathering – Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

A world free of nuclear war

We are having a small gathering to remember this bombing. DATE. 6th August TIME. 1pm LOCATION. Peace House. Read more >> The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively, with the consent of the United Kingdom, as required by the Quebec Agreement. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only uses of nuclear weapons in armed conflict.