In the Roman Catholic calendar, January 1st is dedicated to world peace, and Pope Francis has used the occasion to praise the role of women as peacemakers. Addressing a mass in Saint Peter’s Basilica, Francis said mothers “know how to overcome obstacles and disagreements, and to instil peace.” “How much violence there is against women,” […]
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Meet the ‘Abraham Accords Youth Forum’, peacemakers of the future
Tevel, StandWithUs’s Israeli high school leadership program, held the first meeting of the “Abraham Accords Youth Forum” on Tuesday. The forum involves a series of virtual meetings in which Israeli youth meet with their counterparts from countries that Israel has signed peace agreements in the past year, such as the UAE, and soon, other Gulf […]
Will The Biden Team Be Warmongers Or Peacemakers?
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, Popular Resistance. November 9, 2020 | Educate! Above photo: Obama and Biden meet Gorbachev – did Biden learn anything? Wikimedia Commons. Congratulations to Joe Biden on his election as America’s next president! People all over this pandemic-infested, war-torn and poverty-stricken world were shocked by the brutality and […]