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Newsletters
Birmingham Diocesan Commission newsletters are generally published by email three times a year in pdf format.  Paper copies are now only available  on request - you can request a paper copy here; please give a postal address.
Interim Mini-Newsletters with items of immediate interest are sent by email to all recipients on our distribution list.  These are also published in the [Mini-Newsletters] page of this website.

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Our recent Newsletters are available here to download:

Please download our Autumn 2020 Newsletter which includes dates for your diary
newsletter_issue_46.pdf
Welcome by Fr Gerry (Chair):                    page   1
Our Justice and Peace Assembly:           page   2
Regular Zoom Meetings:                           page   3
Coventry World Tree of Peace 2020:       page  3
Racial Justice:                                               page   4
Integral ecology webinar series:              page    5
Fighting for Bugoma Forest:                   page  6
Lenten retreat 2021:                                    page  7
Rising20:                                                        page  7
 A taste of home:                                         page  8
 UN Nuclear Weapons Treaty:                  page   9
 Ann’s farewell message:                           page  10
 Columbans:                                                  page  10
 Being a Green Christian:                           page    11 
Typhons hit the Philippines:                     page   12
Asha November Bulletin:                           page  13
CARJ AGM :                                                    page  14
Faith into action:                                          page  14
RACIAL JUSTICE: A Conundrum?           page  16
Forgotten Workers:                                    page  17
 

Please download our Summer 2020 Newsletter
newsletter_issue_45.pdf
You will notice that the NJPN Annual Justice and Peace Conference has been postponed until 2021, but you can book a place on their mini conference.
Our Assembly will be going online.  Once we have finalised the programme the information will be updated on our website.
What's in our newsletter?
Welcome by Fr Gerry (Chair):                 page 1
Lent Plastic Challenge                             page 2
People to People Relationships:            page 3
Divesting from fossil fuels:                      page 4
Chair's report to Pax Christi 2020 AGM:   page  5
CAFOD Coronavirus Appeal:               page  6
Peace Song:                                             page  7
St Finbarr's GAA club:                            page  7
Liverpool J&P Annual Assembly:        page  8
Global Care:                                              page  8
Helping those in need:                          page   9
Easter greetings from Rome:               page  10
Laudato Si’ Week:                                     page  11
Racial Justice:                                           page  12
Leamington J&P during Lockdown:   page  13
The Journey to 2030:                                page  14
Post Pandemic Church:                          page  16
Our Justice and Peace Assembly:        page  16
Please find attached a copy of our newsletter.
newsletter_issue_44.pdf
Welcome by Fr Gerry (Chair):         page 1
Bishops Holy Land:                           page  2
Our Common Home:                       page  3
Ban on Fracking:                               page   4
Lent Plastic Challenge:                    page  6
ICON Award:                                       page  7
Pax Christi:                                          page  7
First They Came:                                page  8
The Pax Christi Icon :                        page  9
A Year of Anniversaries for Peace:  page  10
Zimbabwe: the country of my birth:  page  11
Lenten Retreat:                                  page  13
 

 Our Lenten Retreat.
Please book on as soon as possible to help us with the catering arrangements.

register on-line

http://bit.ly/LentenRetreat2020
newsletter_issue_43.pdf
Welcome by Fr Gerry (Chair):                           page      1
Justice and Peace Assembly 2019:                  page     2
The Look up Project:                                           page     3
Ban on Fracking:                                                  page     4
Dennis Davis:                                                        page      4
Actions by Christians Against Torture:           page      5
Lent Plastic Challenge:                                       page    5
CAFOD Faith in Action Day:                              page     5
Making Coventry’s Clean Green Future:        page   6
Microcab Hydrogen Fuel Cells:                         page  6
Safety in Numbers:                                               page  7
Ethical Investment and the Arms Trade:       page  7
Supporting Syria this Christmas:                     page  8
South Hebron Hills:                                              page  8
General Election 2019:                                         page  9
The Ecosystem of Peace:                                    page  11
 


newsletter_issue_42.pdf
Welcome by Fr Gerry (Chair):        page    1
Dragon Boat Regatta:                     page   2
Faith Justice:                                      page   2
Our Common Home: :                     page   3
Nakba Day :                                        page   4
Pax Christi protest:                           page   4
A Diocesan Environmental Policy?    page  5
Bishop John Arnold :                       page   6
No Planet B:                                       page  6
No Planet B.. Acting out Faith in the World:  page  7
Season of Creation.                          page  7
Extinction Rebellion actions in London:  page  8
Coventry Friends of Palestine:    page  9
Restore News:                                 page  9
Modern Slavery:                             page  10
Amazonia Synod 7:                       page  11
Peace Picnic:                                  page  13
Columban Mission:                       page  13
Annual Assembly:                         page  15
Annual Justice and Peace Assembly
Saturday 12th October 2019
St. Peter’s School, Solihull
register on-line http://bit.ly/JandP_Assembly2019
 Thank you to everyone who contributed to this edition of our J&P Newsletter
newsletter_issue_41.pdf
This newsletter includes the following articles:-
Welcome by Fr Gerry (Chair):                    page    1
Lenten Retreat 2019:                                    page    2
Modern Slavery:                                            page    3
A Diocesan Environmental Policy?         page    3
St Josephine Bakhita:                                  page    4
DPRTE Arms fair:                                          page    4
RISING Global Peace Forum:                     page    5
Batthula Care Trust:                                     page    6
Unity Service—Coventry:                            page    7
Heading for Extinction:                               page    8
Ending arms trade investment:                page    9
Lent and Laudato Si’:                                    page    10
CAFOD fast days:                                           page    11
Commission Website:                                   page    11
Coventry Night Shelter - Portrait in Words: page    12
Celebrating the season of Creation:         page    12
Join the Global Movement:                         page    13
ACAT Easter Card Campaign:                     page    13
Fair Trade Fortnight:                                     page    13
Pax Christi:                                                       page    14
Coventry twinning with Dresden:             page    15
Thank you to everyone who has contributed to this newsletter.
newsletter_issue_40.pdf
This newsletter includes the following articles:
Our J&P Assembly 2018:
Rising Up:
Aquabox:
Literacy in a box:
ACAT (Action by Christians against Torture)
Climate and the passion of the earth:
Peace Sunday:
The Purple Community Fund:
Modern Slavery:
The Parallel Programme:
Reclaiming the Common Good:
Support for Fr. Frank Daly:
Events at St Elizabeth’s:
The Situation In Yemen:
Traidcraft:
Our Common Home:
Remembrance Day:
Season of Creation Event:
Children in Palestine:

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