The Council’s Commission on Justice and Peace deplores the violence and cycle of reprisals in Palestine and Israel that is leading to thousands of lives lost and even more death, suffering, and trauma to come. We call on Christian communities across Canada to be salt and light in a way that opens up space to […]
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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
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
The Commission on Justice and Peace is pleased to announce the launch of a new archive website: justiceandpeace.ca! This digital library is a culmination of over 25 years of dedicated work, ecumenical dialogue, communal prayer, bible study, and advocacy efforts among members of the Commission on Justice and Peace, The Canadian Council of Churches (the
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Dear friends, Life on planet earth seems more volatile than ever: Climate change is eroding our confidence in a predictable future. We live with the menacing reality of infectious diseases and pandemics which can sweep across continents in a flash. In many countries, food insecurity and the lack of clean water have led people to
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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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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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>This statement is also available as a pdf. “Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” (John 14:27) “Seek peace and pursue it.” (Psalm 34: 14b) Dear brothers and sisters in
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On the occasion of another tragedy, the massacre of Muslims at the Masjid Al-Noor mosque and the Linwood Masjid Mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand on March 15, 2019, the Canadian Council of Churches offers the following prayer: God, Open our hearts. Let us never allow a racist joke to pass in our hearing, keep our minds
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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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