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The Peace of God or Pax Dei was a proclamation issued by local clergy that decreed immunity from armed violence to noncombatants who could not defend themselves, beginning with the peasants (agricolae) and the clergy. It included the clergy and their possessions; the poor; women; peasants along with their tools, animals, mills, vineyards, and ...
Isaiah 57:19: Peace, peace to the distant and the close" Psalms 11:5: The LORD examines the righteous, but the wicked, those who love violence, he hates with a passion. Psalms 34:15: "Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it" Ecclesiastes 9:17–18:" The quiet words of the wise are more to be heeded than the shouts of a ruler ...
Warfare represents a special category of biblical violence and is a topic the Bible addresses, directly and indirectly, in four ways: there are verses that support pacifism, and verses that support non-resistance; 4th century theologian Augustine found the basis of just war in the Bible, and preventive war which is sometimes called crusade has also been supported using Bible texts.
Pax Romana is a combination of two movements, ICMICA/MIIC and IMCS/MIEC.ICMICA stands for the International Catholic Movement for Intellectual and Cultural Affairs, and MIIC stands for the French and Spanish translation of this title (Mouvement International des Intellectuels Catholiques in French and Movimiento Internacional de Intelectuales Católicos in Spanish).
The Global Peace Foundation (GPF) is an international nonprofit organization with a stated mission to promote “an innovative, values-based approach to peacebuilding, guided by the vision of One Family under God.” [2] [3] GPF partners with government ministries, [4] [5] community and faith-based organizations, [6] and United Nations offices [7] to develop and execute programs in 20 countries.
To this day, this phrase, as it appears in Psalm 82:6-7 (King James Version), remains one of the most provocative quotes from the Bible, particularly when uttered by Black people.
[1] [2] [3] As such, peacebuilding is a multidisciplinary cross-sector technique or method that becomes strategic when it works over the long run and at all levels of society to establish and sustain relationships among people locally and globally and thus engenders sustainable peace. [1]
The Challenge of Peace: God's Promise and Our Response is a 1983 pastoral letter of the American Catholic bishops addressing the issue of war and peace in a nuclear age. It reviewed the Catholic Church's teachings about peace and war, reaffirmed the just war theory as the main principles for evaluating the use of military force, acknowledged the legitimacy of nonviolence as an alternative ...