Dear Brothers and Sisters, On Thursday, 6 th December 2018, the Holy See and the Government of the UAE announced the visit of Pope Francis to Abu Dhabi from the late evening of 3 rd February to midday of 5th February 2019. We are happy and grateful that Pope Francis accepted the invitation of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed […]
Read MoreKelly Clarke Filed on January 27, 2019 | Last updated on January 27, 2019 at 06.57 am Today marks the one-week countdown to Pope Francis’s visit to the UAE, the first such visit by a pope to the Middle East. Today marks the one-week countdown […]
Read More20 June 2017 The 2017 GPI provides a comprehensive analysis on the state of peace. It shows that amidst continuing social and political turmoil, the world continues to spend enormous resources on creating and containing violence but very little on peace. The key to reversing the decline in peace is through building Positive Peace – […]
Read MorePeace is much more than the absence of violence. Positive Peace describes the attitudes, structures and institutions that underpin and sustain peaceful societies. The Institute has developed a conceptual framework, known as the Pillars of Peace, that outlines a system of eight factors that work together to build positive peace. Derived from a statistical analysis […]
Read MoreThe Institute for Economics and Peace will be discussing the newly-released 11th edition of its annual Global Peace Index (GPI) at the ANU Crawford school on 27 June 2017. The GPI report presents the latest and most comprehensive global data on trends in peace, violence and war, aiming to address the big question of whether […]
Read More“May charity and nonviolence govern how we treat each other as individuals, within society and in international life.” This statement written by Pope Francis in his Jan. 1 World Day of Peace message – the 50th annual papal peace message to the world – extols nonviolence as an essential and nonnegotiable key to true and […]
Read More“We mourn the death of a great statesman, who worked tirelessly to implement sustained peace in the Middle East. “There is no other solution,” he said in 2013. “Peace for Israel is not just a strategic choice. It is a moral call which stems from the depth of our heritage.” We must engage and […]
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JOSHUA J. MCELWEE VATICAN CITY February 17, 2015 Pope Francis on Tuesday offered prayers for 21 Coptic Christians in Egypt murdered by the so-called Islamic State, asking that God “welcome them as martyrs.” The pontiff, speaking in his daily morning homily at Casa Santa Marta, also cried out again for a stop to conflicts around […]
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Pope Francis embraces three children during his visit to the University of Santo Tomas in Manila on January 18, 2015. Pope Francis will celebrate mass with millions in the Philippine capital on January 18 in what could be the world’s biggest papal gathering, capping off a dramatic trip in the Catholic Church’s Asian heartland. (AFP) […]
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