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Leviticus 26:6: "And I shall place peace upon the land" Numbers 25:12: "Behold I give him my covenant of peace" 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 ...
§ 3. It will heighten awareness of the need to promote peace, above all on the occasion of the World Day of Peace (art. 143). It will maintain close relations with the Secretariat of State, especially when it deals publicly with problems of justice and peace in its documents or declarations (art. 144). [7]
The Sermon on the Mount (Mt. 5:1-16) and the Sermon on the Plain (Lk. 6:20-45) combine with the call to "love your enemies" (Mt. 5:38-48) to encapsulate Jesus' teachings on peacemaking. According to Gabriel Moran , the Sermon on the Mount does not advocate submission to oppressors, but rather a strategy to "de-hostilize enemies in order to win ...
In keeping with the Community of Christ's role as a "peace and justice church", the Independence Temple was "dedicated to the pursuit of peace". [30] Every day at 1 pm a Daily Prayer for Peace is held in the sanctuary of the Independence Temple. The church's peace position was influenced by the Mennonite Central Committee Peace and Justice ...
After stating that "the creation of the United Nations system itself, based upon universally shared values and goals, has been a major act towards transformation from a culture of war and violence to a culture of peace and non-violence", the UN General Assembly, in its resolution 52/13 of 20 November 1997, requested UNESCO to submit to its next session a draft declaration and programme of ...
The post ‘Peace to the God’: Unpacking ‘The Book of Clarence’ and the audacity of divinity appeared first on TheGrio. ... in Psalm 82:6-7 (King James Version), ... experiencing provocative ...
[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]
Peace churches are Christian churches, groups or communities advocating Christian pacifism or Biblical nonresistance. The term historic peace churches refers specifically only to three church groups among pacifist churches: Church of the Brethren, including all daughter churches such as the Old German Baptist Brethren, Old Brethren and Dunkard ...