Pope Peace Day Message: Pour money into education, not weapons
By Carol Glatz – Governments must pour more money into education and drastically reduce military spending for there to be genuine progress and peace in the world,...
Category: Justice & Peace
Lessons learned from Northern Ireland
By Sarah Mac Donald – A former director of the US bishops’ Department of Justice, Peace and Human Development told a British and Irish forum what he...
No One Should Ever Go Hungry – Yet Millions Do
There is one war we need to fight. For without our intervention, countless people will suffer, and thousands of children will continue dying daily. The name of...
A Day to Thank and Pray for Health Care Workers
By SACBC J&P – Justice and Peace in several dioceses organised a special day for health care workers to thank them for their selfless service during the...
The Church in solidarity with descendants of the victims of forced removals and farm dwellers
What is Justice and Peace doing about the land reform in South Africa? This was the question posed by Bishopp Chairperson of the Justice and Peace Commission,...
SACBC Defends Rights of Farm Dwellers, Workers
SACBC Justice and Peace Calls On Human Rights Commission to Do More to Defend Rights Of Farm Dwellers And Farm Workers On Thursday, 11 February, SACBC Justice...
Pope 75 Years After Atomic Bomb: Drop Weapons For Peace
By Carol Glatz – For peace to flourish, weapons of war must be set aside, especially nuclear weapons that can obliterate entire cities and countries, Pope Francis said...
Race And Film: Fiction And Nonfiction That Gives Food For Thought
By Kurt Jensen – No motion picture drama has had the power to change minds the way the on-video death of George Floyd in the custody of police...
Oblate Warns of OR Tambo Drug Trafficking
Nearly 20% of people arrested in Hong Kong in 2018/19 for possession of drugs, smuggled the substance via OR Tambo International in Johannesburg, according to a Hong...
A Christian State of the Nation Address
My fellow brothers and sisters in Christ: As followers of the God whose very essence is love, a love so deep and abundant that this love took...
Time To Revive the Justice & Peace Ministry
The Justice & Peace ministry has become inactive in many dioceses. In the face of many social crises, now is the time to revive it, argues Kalie...
Why J&P Supports Infected Meat Victims
The bishops’ Justice & Peace Commission (J&P) continues to work for families affected by the infected meat scandal, in which 216 people were killed and about 1000...
