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Jesus and the Ladder to Peacemaking: An Easter Meditation from General Secretary Pastor Peter Noteboom

This Easter season, the media headlines are especially distressing: 18 million people facing severe food insecurity in Sudan with little humanitarian aid on the way, mostly absent from our awareness. More than 100,000 Armenians uprooted from their history, culture and homes. Hundreds of thousands of Russians and Ukrainians dead, dying, and injured in a war

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Church and Christian Leaders of Canada Call for Peace as War in Ukraine Enters its Third Year

As the second anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine approaches on February 24, Christian leaders of Orthodox, Catholic, Evangelical, and other faith traditions in Canada, together with the World Evangelical Alliance’s Peace & Reconciliation Network, The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, and The Canadian Council of Churches invite all Christians and people of good will

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Upcoming Event: Praying Together: A Christian Response to the War in Ukraine

The Council – in coordination with the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada and the Peace & Reconciliation Network –  invites its members, friends, and Christians in Canada to a special online hour of prayer for peace on November 16, 2023 (8-9PM EST). As attention understandably turns to the tragedy developing in Israel and Gaza and Christians

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Rooted in Truth, Compassion and Justice: A Prayer for Peace When Words Fail

A response to recent events in Gaza and Israel  Words fail to convey how heavily the stories of violence and despair emerging from our screens weigh on our hearts. Yet we recognize that in this case, remaining silent is itself a form of violence.   Along with countless others around the world, we share the outrage,

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International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) wins 2017 Nobel Peace Prize

6 October 2017 Executive Director International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Switzerland Dear Beatrice and colleagues: On behalf of the member denominations of The Canadian Council of Churches and its bodies, including operation division Project Ploughshares, we congratulate the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) for being awarded the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize. The

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