{"id":8476,"date":"2016-12-24T12:59:14","date_gmt":"2016-12-24T17:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=8476"},"modified":"2019-10-10T13:13:19","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T17:13:19","slug":"pope-francis-make-active-nonviolence-our-way-of-life-a-statement-for-the-50th-catholic-churchs-world-day-of-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=8476","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis: Make active nonviolence our way of life – a statement for the 50th Catholic Church’s World Day of Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

EDUCATION FOR PEACE .<\/p>\n

An article from Nonviolent Peaceforce<\/a><\/p>\n

Today [December 12] in Pope Francis’ message, Nonviolence: A style of politics for peace<\/a>, he urges people everywhere to practice active nonviolence and notes that the \u201cdecisive and consistent practice of nonviolence has produced impressive results.\u201d While NP is nonsectarian, we welcome such affirmations. Mel Duncan, NP\u2019s Advocacy and Outreach director noted:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\n<\/center><\/p>\n

“As we struggle in a World War fought ‘piecemeal,’ nonviolent methods of protecting civilians are proving themselves effective in some of the most violent places on the planet. Indeed, more peacebuilders, conflict transformers, mediators, nonviolent resisters and unarmed civilian protectors are at work than any other time in history. We welcome Pope Francis’ pledge of assistance of the Church in every effort to build peace through active and creative nonviolence. We need it!”<\/p>\n

Pope Francis\u2019 statement follows the landmark Nonviolence and Just Peace Conference held in Rome in April 2016<\/a>. Eighty-five experts on nonviolence from throughout the world including Mel Duncan were invited to advise on the Just War Theory. The group agreed that there is no \u201cjust war.” Instead, they issued an appeal to the Catholic Church to re-commit to the centrality of nonviolence in the Gospel. The group called on the Catholic Church to promote nonviolent practices and strategies including unarmed civilian protection.<\/p>\n

In his message, the pope pledged \u201cthe assistance of the Church in every effort to build peace through active and creative nonviolence.\u201d<\/p>\n

NP urges our supporters who are involved with a faith community to take similar initiatives to actively practice and promote nonviolence, including unarmed civilian protection.\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Question for this article:<\/strong><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
\n

\n

Can peace be guaranteed through nonviolent means?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EDUCATION FOR PEACE . An article from Nonviolent Peaceforce Today [December 12] in Pope Francis’ message, Nonviolence: A style of politics for peace, he urges people everywhere to practice active nonviolence and notes that the \u201cdecisive and consistent practice of nonviolence has produced impressive results.\u201d While NP is nonsectarian, we welcome such affirmations. Mel Duncan, … Continue reading Pope Francis: Make active nonviolence our way of life – a statement for the 50th Catholic Church’s World Day of Peace<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,76],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-8476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-for-peace","category-global","tag-global"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}