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STATEMENT: Today’s historic meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un: key points to be included in follow-up talks for peace and disarmament
This summit will make history if it enables the two parties to come to the negotiating table and lays a foundation for peace. We hope that the Singapore summit can lead to new relations between the two countries...
Belgium: Pax Christi Flanders celebrates KBC Bank decision to stop investing in nuclear weapons-related businesses
Last week, the KBC bank – one of the biggest in Belgium – announced a policy change with respect to investing in nuclear weapons, explicitly referring to the Ban Treaty. It will completely stop investing in nuclear weapons-related businesses...
Germany: Pax Christi Germany says no combat drones for the Bundeswehr
The pax christi-Germany diocesan associations in Mainz and Limburg are speaking out in a letter to members of the Bundestag against the procurement of combat drones for the Bundeswehr...
UK: Pax Christi UK has annual gathering in Nottingham
They came from Sussex, Leeds, Southampton, Liverpool, Abingdon, Leicester, Salford, London, Coventry, Wolverhampton, Lincoln and beyond, Pax Christi members and supporters attending the Annual Gathering of Pax Christi in Nottingham on 2 June...
Sri Lanka: Fr. Nandana Manatunga, director of member organisation Human Rights Office-Kandy, receives prestigious 2018 Gwangju Human Rights Award
Father Nandana Manatunga, director of member organisation Human Rights Office-Kandy, is the winner of the 2018 Gwangju Prize for Human Rights, an annual dedication to the people’s spirit of the May 18 Democratization Movement hosted by the May 18 Memorial Foundation...
Latin America: Pax Christi International organises Mexico meeting with Latin American members and partners to discuss extractives, share experiences of resistance
From 23 to 26 May, Pax Christi International organised a meeting in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, in the Mexican state of Chiapas, in order to share experiences about nonviolent resistance strategies regarding the extractives industry and transnational megaprojects...
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