Dear Reader,

In this issue you can find recent peace-related news and forthcoming events in and around Coventry.

Please do let us know of any peace-related news or activities happening in or near Coventry and we will be happy to add them to our website http://coventrycityofpeace.uk and include them in a future edition of this newsletter.

Philip Brown
Coventry Lord Mayor's Committee for Peace & Reconciliation
covlmpc@gmail.com

Peace News

Pope calls for transformation of war mindsets into peace plans

In a video message to the US National Catholic Congress on Hispanic Ministry - taking place in Washington, DC - Pope Francis invited participants to reflect on the need to be Christians who can create bridges in all sectors of society. In her article on Vatican News, Linda Bordoni reported the Pope saying that we are living an “absurd time …

Coventry Restorative Stories

Coventry Restorative Stories is a project that will listen to the stories of people who have needed or used RJ, and to promote awareness of Restorative Justice (RJ) within the city. If you don't know what RJ is, you can find out more by watching the video below or by visiting https://covrj.uk/what-is-restorative-justice/ If you have had experience of RJ or …

UN Secretary General has "frank discussions" Vladimir Putin - video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9GRsZvvvik

Vote to get £20,000 for Canal Basin Community Peace Garden

Severn Trent Community Fund could award £20,000 to Coventry Mercia Lions Club and the British Organisation for People of Asian Origin to restore a Community Peace Garden at Coventry Canal Basin. It will be a haven for local people and visitors and for hundreds of volunteers gathering to improve the Coventry Canal. If you live in the Severn Trent services …

Ekta-Unity

Ekta-Unity is a Coventry-based group of like-minded volunteers with a wide range of experiences and skills who have come together to promote social inclusion in the city of Coventry for the public benefit by preventing people from becoming socially excluded, relieving the needs of those people who are socially excluded and assisting them to integrate in society. They run weekly …

Forthcoming Peace-Related Events

If you know of other peace-related events please let us know.

Write to covlmpc@gmail.com

School as a Place of Healing

This online event for school staff will be held on 12 May by Schools of Sanctuary ahead of Refugee Week 2022. Children and young people seeking sanctuary often experience various events that can negatively impact on their wellbeing and happiness, and schools play a central role in supporting them. Importantly, these experiences can occur pre-, trans- and post-migration and can …

Memorial for Penny Walker

Coventry Peace House will be holding a memorial for the extraordinary campaigner and peace activist Penny Walker at 3pm on Saturday 14th May. This will be a chance for those that knew Penny to share our memories, celebrate her life and take time together to share what she meant to us all. There will be food to share, memories, music, colour…

International Day of Living Together in Peace 2022

Living together in peace is all about accepting differences and having the ability to listen to, recognize, respect and appreciate others, as well as living in a peaceful and united way. In 2017, the UN General-Assembly declared 16 May the International Day of Living Together in Peace, as a means of regularly mobilizing the efforts of the international community to …

Refugee Week 2022

Refugee Week is an annual festival celebrating the contributions of refugees. Refugee Week 2022 will be marked from 20th to 26th June. The theme for the 2022 Refugee Week is Healing. Anyone, any school, any organisation can run an event or activity, big or small and a free Organiser Pack is available here. In Coventry, Refugee Week has been renamed Coventry …

Closing date for Coventry International Young People's Peace Essay Competition

Are you aged between 15 and 24? What do you see as the greatest threat to peace? Do you have ideas what people can and should do reduce that threat? Then Coventry’s International Young People’s Peace Essay Competition is your chance to tell the world what you think. Write an essay of 500 or 1000 words (depending on your age) …

Lord Mayor's Peace Lecture 2022

Coventry Lord Mayor's Committee for Peace and Reconciliation is pleased to announce that Roger Harrabin will deliver the Lord Mayor's Peace Lecture on 11 November. Roger was born in Coventry and attended Stivichall Primary School and King Henry VIII School. After studying English at Cambridge he returned to Coventry as a journalist at the Coventry Evening Telegraph. From there he …

Ruined and Rebuilt

This classic book is on sale now in hardback or paperback and would make an ideal and unique gift. On the night of 14 November 1940, Reverend Richard Howard, Provost of Coventry Cathedral, was one of four firefighters who climbed onto the roof to smother with sand the incendiary bombs that were landing not just on the Cathedral but starting …

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