Anna Blackman

Religion’s role in peace & conflict is nuanced but often stays within academic circles.
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Building Peace: The use of Restorative Justice to resolve interfaith conflict — Why me? This project will explore how Restorative Justice can be used to forge new ways to resolve community conflicts and address faith-based hate crime in Solihull and Glasgow.

Over the last 10 years, hate crime has grown from 40,000 recorded cases to nearly 160,000 in 2021-22.

Our interfaith project with Interfaith Glasgow and The Faith & Belief Forum is using RJ to equip communities with the skills to address hostility between and against faith groups.

Reform would create ICE-style agency and end leave to remain, Zia Yusuf to say Nigel Farage’s party plans to deport up to 288,000 people a year on five flights a day and expand stop and search

“It wouldn’t happen here…”

Think again. They’re working on it.

We won’t let ICE-style thugs terrorise our communities as they have done in the US.

March together with us on 28 March to say out with the far right.

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Ash Wednesday peace witness outside MoD | ICN Around 70 Christians gathered outside the Ministry of Defence in Central London today, to take part in the annual Ash Wednesday procession and prayer vigil. This was the 44th year Christians undertook...

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Scotland: Mass protest planned at Faslane Nuclear Submarine Base | ICN On Saturday 14th March the Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (SCND) are organising a mass demonstration to oppose British nuclear weapons at Faslane Naval Base, at a time when the world has ne...

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Join us from April to July for our Disarming the Climate Crisis training programme! This online training programme will increase your confidence in taking action on these complex issues, and contribute to building solidarity networks internationally.
Details here: wri-irg.org/en/story/202...

In Memory of Brian Quail – Pax Christi Scotland Blessed are the peacemakers, they shall be called the children of God Peace activist Brian Quail died on February 17. He helped to establish Pax Christi Scotlan

In memory of Brian Quail

www.paxchristiscotland.org/brian-quail/

Pope at Jubilee Audience: Peace is taking a stand where human dignity is trampled - Vatican News During his Jubilee Audience on Saturday morning, Pope Leo XIV reflects on Servant of God, Dorothy Day, an American Catholic, who dedicated her life to ...

Pope Leo at Jubilee Audience: Dorothy Day understood that for too many the dream was a nightmare, and that as a Christian she had to involve herself with workers, with migrants, with those cast aside by an economy that kills." www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

Yesterday, our own Ken Butigan joined CNI in sharing with Pope Leo XIV their gratitude for his relentless call for peace and nonviolence, and recounted for him the work of the institute.

Check out our blog to read more about their exchange:

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Pope Leo XIV to Rimini Meeting: Hope does not disappoint - Vatican News Pope Leo XIV invites participants in the 46th Meeting of Friendship Among Peoples to remember that peace is made up of daily gestures, and warns that ...

Pope Leo to Rimini Meeting: “Promote pathways of education in nonviolence, initiatives for mediation in local conflicts, and projects of welcome that transform the fear of the other into opportunities for encounter.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

Safeguarding Theology & Religious Studies in higher education: an open letter As students receive their A–Level results today, Theos have put together this open letter highlighting the importance of religious education in higher education. 14/08/2025

📢 This #ALevelResultsDay, we’re calling for Theology & Religious Studies to be protected in higher education.

🔗 Read more in our open letter signed by 75 signatories - including James Norton and Dr Rowan Williams - here: www.theosthinktank.co.uk/in-the-news/...

LINEs4Palestine: An international collaboration for ELT capacity building in times of genocide Dr Maria Grazia Imperiale (University of Glasgow) outlines how the LINEs4Palestine project has been providing CPD opportunities and mentoring to ELT/Education students and staff in Gaza

I don’t think it would be an understatement to say that being involved in the #Lines4Palestine project has been one of the most powerful experiences of my life #academicsolidarity. Details & how to get involved refugeap-network.net/2025/03/10/l... Report here eprints.gla.ac.uk/354866/

The LINEs4Palestine team will be launching their new LINEs4P Multivocal Report at a hybrid event on May 1st from 2:00 to 3:30pm (UK time). Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lines4pale...

Read more about their project in this RefugEAP Network blog post: refugeap-network.net/2025/03/10/l...

Influential women urge inclusion of asylum seekers in Labour plans to tackle violence Exclusive: open letter warns of ‘two-tier’ system if asylum seekers are excluded from promise to halve violence against women and girls More than 50 influential women, including actors, authors and comedians, have warned in a letter to the government against the risk of creating a “two-tier” system to tackle violence against women and girls if tens of thousands of female asylum seekers are left out. Labour has pledged to halve violence against women and girls in the next decade and is due to publish its strategy in September. Continue reading...

Influential women urge inclusion of asylum seekers in Labour plans to tackle violence

Israeli forces strike Catholic Parish in Gaza - Vatican News The Holy Family Church, the only Catholic Church in Gaza, was struck by a raid this morning resulting in several injuries including the Parish priest, ...

All parties must respect and protect places of worship and humanitarian shelters. It is a clear violation of international humanitarian law to strike civilians seeking refuge.

Our prayers go out to all at the Holy Family Church in Gaza.

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HSBC joins US banks in quitting climate coalition Britain's HSBC became the latest bank to leave the industry's climate coalition on Friday, following in the footsteps of major U.S. lenders as some governments' net zero ambitions cool.

After dropping a 2030 emissions-reduction target in February, HSBC has now left the banking industry's climate coalition. Operation Noah & our partners are encouraging Christians to switch from banks that fund planet-heating fossil fuels to ones that don't. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Catholic schoolchildren join Mass Lobby as thousands demand bold action on climate, debt and nature | ICN More than a hundred school students from across the UK joined the Act Now, Change Forever mass lobby of Parliament yesterday, calling on MPs to take urgent action on the climate crisis, unjust debt ...

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New RED Resource, Laudato Si Champions and new short course on teaching the Holy Spirit with creativity - mailchi.mp/1e3b479bcf55...

National lobby of Parliament, Mass for the environment | ICN Thousands of people from more than a hundred organisations and schools, will be taking part in a national lobby of parliament tomorrow, (Wednesday 9 July) calling for leadership from the UK government...

www.indcatholicnews.com/news/52777 #ActNowChangeForever

Approved by Pope Leo, Vatican releases new Mass “For the Care of Creation” where the Prayer after Communion asks that “we may learn to live in harmony with all creatures;” Pope to celebrate new Mass at Castel Gandolfo next week where he will take a brief summer break. www.vatican.va/content/roma...

📢Out today: ICAN’s memorial dedicated to the children of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Ahead of the 80th anniversaries of the nuclear bombings, this new online memorial honours the 38,000 children killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

🔗Learn more: childrenspeacememorial.org

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Online memorial for children dead in Hiroshima, Nagasaki A Nobel Prize-winning anti-nuclear group launched an online memorial Tuesday for the 38,000 children who died in the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ahead of the 80th anniversary next mo...

🗣️A new online memorial that honors the thousands of children killed by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is live today. Launched ahead of the 80th anniversaries of the bombings, it invites people worldwide to remember, reflect and act for peace.

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Join us for a mass lobby in Westminster Supporters of more than 100 organisations from across the UK will be in Westminster on Wednesday 9 July to ask MPs to take action on climate, debt and nature.

The mass lobby is in two weeks! 📣

Co-organised by our friends at The Climate Coalition, it's a great occasion as different organisations and people from all over get the chance to speak to MPs about important issues.

Find out more and sign up. ⤵️

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Refugee Week is here and we have had a great start to the week: the empathy, compassion and warmth of welcome we saw from all the students at St Mary's School in Sandwell was a reminder that Community really is a Superpower! @refugeeweek.bsky.social

This women's library just became a 'library of sanctuary' for refugees Glasgow Women’s Library becomes Scotland’s first Library of Sanctuary, supporting refugee women through community and care.

Glasgow Women’s Library has become the first in Scotland to be recognised as a Library of Sanctuary💪

“As a library that’s been founded on equality, that’s really the heart of everything that we do…" @womenslibrary.bsky.social
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The first U.S. bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV—a refugee himself—is mobilizing priests to accompany migrants at immigration court on June 20.

(Via Christopher Hale)

A graphic with an image of a hands opening an empty wallet. "Shouldn't debts just be repaid? Poor countries already repaid their original debts - but unfair interest keeps them trapped."

A bar graph. "Private lenders charge poor nations 6-10% interest, while rich nations borrow at 0-1%"

A photo of a woman stood in front of plants next to a graphic of a bank and currency. "The system is broken, it's time for change."

Poor countries borrow at higher interest rates than their richer counterparts and become trapped by debt as a result.

It's time for debt justice. Join the campaign. ⤵️

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St Mary’s promotes ecology ‘toolkit’ as Pope Leo XIV urges universities to work for social and environmental justice - The Tablet A free teaching toolkit on the Catholic Church’s approach to ecology has been re-launched by St Mary’s University, Twickenham, ahead of Laudato Si’ Week which

St Mary’s promotes ecology ‘toolkit’ as Pope Leo XIV urges universities to work for social and environmental justice
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Job alert at CCS Durham! Three year funded postdoc in Catholic Social Thought and Practice. More info here: durham.taleo.net/careersectio... #catholicism #skystorians #catholic #academia