80 years for Peace
Founded in 1945, Pax Christi International has been a beacon of hope and a vehicle for peace for eight decades. As a Catholic peace movement, our mission has been to transform conflicts and foster peace, human rights, and justice globally. The 80th anniversary offers a profound opportunity to commemorate our achievements, reflect on lessons learned, and strategize future actions towards global peace and reconciliation.
Our key priorities for this year are:
🔹 Commemorating Pax Christi International’s rich history
🔹 Reaffirming our commitments to peace and justice, emphasising nonviolence as a core principle, fostering human security, supporting conflict transformation, and emphasising the need for human rights and climate justice
🔹 Engaging and expanding our community, with a specific attention to the youth
Anniversary-related events
All Pax Christi International and member events related to this important celebration will be listed below.
🔹 13 March: Launch in Brussels
🔹 10-11 May: 80 years since the end of the war by pax christi Germany | Full report here
🔹 7 June: Pax Christi England and Wales: AGM and 80th anniversary celebration | Read the report on Independent Catholic News (ICN)
🔹 24 June: 80 Years of Memory and Action – A webinar marking 80 years since the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
🔹 18-20 July: Pilgrimage in Lourdes organised by Pax Christi France
🔹 6 and 9 August: Pax Jubilee 2025 Declaration for a Peaceful Asia-Pacific Region Without Nuclear Weapons, jointly prepared by Pax Romana, the Pax Christi Movement (guided by Pax Christi Korea), and the International Young Theologians Collective (IYTC). The declaration will be solemnly presented during memorial Masses in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 2025, respectively. Read more here.
🔹 5-9 November: Pax Christi International’s Gathering in Florence
World Gathering Sessions
Session video recordings
🔹 Commemorating Pax Christi’s Heritage and trends for the future
🔹 Session 1: Connecting the Thread – Nonviolence and the Path Ahead
🔹 Disarmament and Integral Human Flourishing
🔹 Integral Human Disarmament and Security
🔹 Our Common Home, Casa di Pace! Final Declaration
Pax Christi International Florence Commitment 2025 – 2030
“In this moment of global uncertainty, we refuse despair. Inspired by the Jubilee Year of Hope, we choose Hope not as sentiment, but as a discipline rooted in faith and lived in solidarity.”
In the wake of the World Gathering held in Florence from 5–9 November to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Movement’s foundation, Pax Christi International has released its official commitment, which will serve as a guiding framework for the organisation’s future and for all supporters of its global network around the world.
In a world once again wounded by the outbreak of numerous conflicts and by the resulting feelings of fear and despair, today, as eighty years ago, our call to Hope seeks to chart a new path grounded in a universal logic of Just Peace, a peace “never imposed from above”, but one that grows “from the resilience, creativity, and courage of those whose lives are most deeply marked by injustice”.
The President of Pax Christi Italy meets Pope Leo XIV in Rome
On Tuesday, 19 November, the President of Pax Christi Italy, Bishop Giovanni Ricchiuti, had the opportunity to meet Pope Leo XIV in Rome.
The Bishop was able to exchange a few words with the Holy Father, mentioning Pax Christi International and the recent World Gathering held in Florence.
Read more about our 80 years working for peace
All articles published in honour of the movement’s 80th Anniversary will be added below.
🔹 Défendre la Paix et la Justice: la mission de Pax Christi depuis 80 ans in Pax Christi France’s Journal de la Paix (p.29, in French) – EN/ES
🔹 Un Seme, un Segno, un Sogno: Pax Christi International festeggia i suoi ottanta anni di vita in Pax Christi Italia’s Mosaico di Pace (in Italian)
🔹 Pax Christi head marks 80 years of the international Catholic peace movement in UK visit (via Pax Christi England & Wales)
🔹 80 years of Pax Christi: the enduring struggle for peace by Marti Waals in Tertio (Translation by Fr. Paul Lansu)
🔹 80 jaar Pax Christi International: de blijvende strijd voor vrede (80 Years of Pax Christi International: The Enduring Struggle for Peace) published by Pax Christi Vlaanderen
🔹 July/August edition of Pax Christi England and Wales Justpeace newsletter
🔹 Pax Christi International’s Florence Commitment 2025-2030
🔹 News Briefing: Church in the World – The Tablet
🔹 Launch of Pax Christi International Youth Forum | ICN


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