Category Archives: Events

Building a World Without Nuclear Weapons: An Urgent Imperative

Join us virtually Jan. 27th, 2024 for this online forum will focus on the grave concern regarding the increasing threat of nuclear war and what ordinary citizens can do to prevent it. Presented by Pax Christi Massachusetts in association with Pax Christi USA.
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Interfaith Prayer Service

In Observance of the
UN International Day for the
Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

You are invited to an Interfaith Prayer Service
Tuesday, September 26th, 2023
at 12:30 PM
The Gazebo at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza
E. 47th Street & Second Avenue, Manhattan, NYC

Bring a prayer, poem, reflection, or hymn for the abolition of nuclear weapons or, more generally, for peace. Everyone in attendance will have the opportunity to share from your faith tradition. There is no formal program; we are the program.

78th Anniversary of the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Pax Christi Metro New York invites you to join in Prayer and Public Witness on the occasion of the 78th Anniversary of the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Aug. 5th at Noon In Manhattan – Gandhi Statue  at West Side of Union Square Park near 14th Street. There will be Prayer for those who have suffered the effects of nuclear weapons development and use.
A Moment of Silence
The Ringing of a Gong 78 times for the 78 years since the tragic dawning of the nuclear age.
Leafletting to inform and invite action to abolish nuclear weapons.
Music to end our commemoration.

The 41st Annual Way of the Cross

Join several hundred people in one of the largest public Christian peace witnesses in New York City. In this our forty-first year Pax Christi Metro New York will commemorate Good Friday as a modern-day enactment of the Stations of the Cross, praying for peace and justice on the streets of our city.
This year our Annual Good Friday Way of the Cross will be an in person event. As we plan this event we seek to know the needs of those who will walk and pray with us.
The Walk will take place in person, from 8:30 am to 12pm on Good Friday, April 7th.

RACIAL JUSTICE BOOK TALK

RACIAL JUSTICE BOOK TALK
April 2 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
At the Church of Rain Francis Xavier NYC -The Racial Justice Ministry and the Parish Council will jointly host a conversation on American Catholic Anti-Blackness and where we go from here with Maureen O’Connell. Dr. O’Connell will explore the interplay of her Catholic and racial identities across 200 years of her family’s history.