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Art work in the NCPO Peace Zone at the annual

Greenbelt Festival

A P F M E M B E R S :

● M A I N TA I N A PAC I F I S T W I T N E S S within the Anglican Communion, from parish level to the General Synod; and at the Lambeth Conference.

● TA K E T H E M E S S AG E O F P E AC E TO YO U N G P E O P L E in schools and colleges, as part of the Peace Education Network.

● C A M PA I G N AG A I N S T WA R A N D M I L I TA R I S M , by all possible (peaceful) means including participation at political protests and demonstrations.

● O R G A N I S E A N D RU N E V E N T S AT G AT H E R I N G S , such as the Greenbelt Arts Festival, in collaboration with other member of the Network of Christian Peace Organisations.

● S U P P O RT T H E WO R K O F N O N -C H R I S T I A N O R G A N I S AT I O N S working for world peace, notably Campaign Against Arms Trade and War Resisters’ International.

● TA K E A G L O B A L V I E W O F T H E P O L I T I C S O F P E AC E M A K I N G , encouraging and supporting those working for peace and reconcilliation around the world.

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At the last Lambeth Conference. With the Archbishop of Canterbury are Bishop Colin Scott (APF counsellor), Tony Kempster (APF general secretary), Mary Roe (APF chairperson) and Chris Barfoot (APF New Zealand secretary).

“Throne of weapons” at the British Museum. It is the product of the

Transforming Arms into Tools (TAE) Project established in 1995

in Maputo, Mozambique by Bishop Dinis Singulane, an APF counsellor,

with the support of Christian Aid.

Working with Alive & Kicking to

distribute peace balls for groups in Africa

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‘We believe that as Christians we are called to follow the way of Jesus in loving our enemies and becoming peacemakers. We work to transform our Anglican Communion and the world to overcome those factors that lead to war within and between nations.’

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T H E A N G L I C A N PAC I F I S T F E L L OW S H I PAPF IS A BODY OF PEOPLE WITHIN THE ANGLICAN COMMUNION WHO REJECT WAR AS A WAY OF SOLVING INTERNATIONAL DISPUTES, AND BELIEVE THAT PEACE AND JUSTICE SHOULD BE SOUGHT THROUGH NONVIOLENT MEANS. OUR POSITION ACCORDS WITH RESOLUTION 25 OF THE1938 LAMBETH CONFERENCE WHICH WAS REAFFIRMED AT SIX SUBSEQUENT CONFERENCES.

We were established in 1937, and currently have some 1100 members in over 30 countries, as well as a sister organisation, the EPF, in the USA.

We founded the Week of Prayer for World Peace (October each year), and continue to have close ties with it.

We are a member of the Network of Christian Peace Organisations, the Network for Peace and the International Peace Bureau (a Nobel Laureate organisation based in Geneva)

Our newsletter is published three times a year. This describes APF’s activities, and carries articles on the major peace issues of the day and also related items on music, films and the arts generally.

A M E S S AG E O F L OV ECentral to Jesus’s teaching is the message of love, for God, and our neighbours including specifically our enemies. We are to do good to those who attack us, and not return violence with violence.

This message is all the more urgent in today’s world, with state violence and injustice creating terrorism, with the flourishing arms trade and many intrastate wars, and with nuclear weapons which threaten humanity’s very survival.

Military means fail to bring lasting solutions and may bring about the extinction of humanity.

W E B E L I E V E :

• JESUS’S TEACHING IS INCOMPATIBLE WITH THE WAGING OF WAR

• A CHRISTIAN CHURCH SHOULD NOT SUPPORT OR JUSTIFY WAR

• ACTIVE OPPOSITION TO WAR SHOULD BE CENTRAL TO OUR CHRISTIAN WITNESS.

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The newsletter of the Anglican Pacifist Fellowship December 2015

IPB’s exhibition “Making peace” in Geneva (2010), to mark the centenary of its award of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Annual witness at the Innocent Victims’ memorial outside Westminster Abbey on Holy Innocents’ Day with Canon Robert Reiss (second left).

Chris Barfoot, Joyce Smith with Bishop Peter Price (APF Bishop Protector) at the APF stand at the last Lambeth conference.

Blockade of one of the gates at The Atomic Weapon’s Establishment, Burghfield.

Annual ceremony in Tavistock Square, London to mark International Conscientious Objectors’ Day. Sue Gilmurray (APF membership secretary) and the political choir, Raised Voices lead the singing.

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