Programs

SPECIAL PROGRAMS

Maloof Family Young Peacebuilder Award

In the Spring of 2013, Pax Christi Metro New York (PCMNY) was the recipient of a donation specifically designed to enable us to recognize the peacebuilding efforts of students of high school age. The award is inspired by the peacebuilding work of the Maloof family, whose story you can read as told by the son, David, at http://bustedhalo.com/features/finding-god-in-a-palestinian-refugee-camp.

While David’s experience was international, the Maloof Family Young Peacebuilder Award is open to a wide range of peacebuilding activities at home or abroad. We believe that there are many young people who are engaged in excellent work to promote peace and who do so, at least in part, because of their faith. We also believe that their good work often goes unrecognized. We want to take this opportunity to correct that oversight and to encourage even more peacebuilding efforts.

The Maloof Family Young Peacebuilder receives a $1000 prize, along with a Certificate. Nominations are accepted on behalf of High School Juniors. The Award is presented at a festive Peacemaker Award Reception in the Spring.

We hope you agree that this is a great way to affirm deserving students for their important work for peace and an excellent way to foster more faith-filled endeavors to counter our violence-plagued culture with the youthful energy and creativity that nurture peace.

RELIGIOUS ORDERS FOR PEACE

Franciscan Friars-Holy Name Province
Franciscan Sisters of the Poor
Franciscan Sisters of Peace
Maryknoll Sisters of St. Dominic
The Redemptorists
Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary
Sisters of St. Dominic, Amityville
Sisters of Good Shepherd
Sisters of St. Joseph

PARISHES FOR PEACE

Blessed Sacrament, Staten Island
St. Andrew the Apostle, Brooklyn
Our Savior, Bronx
St. Francis De Sales, Manhattan
St. Francis Xavier, Manhattan

USEFUL EXTERNAL LINKS

Pax Christi USA (https://paxchristiusa.org/ )Pax Christi USA is a community of tens of thousands of lay women and men, women religious, priests, deacons, brothers, bishops, Catholics of all stripes and persons affiliated with other faith traditions who strive to be the “peace of Christ, Pax Christi” in the world today. We are a network of individual members and over 250 local communities — local groups, high school chapters, college chapters, religious communities, parishes, Catholic Worker communities, and others — spread across the United States.
Back from the Brink ( preventnuclearwar.org ) Back from the Brink is a US-based grassroots coalition of individuals, organizations and elected officials working together toward a world free of nuclear weapons and advocating for common sense nuclear weapons policies to secure a safer, more just future. We call on the United States to lead a global effort to prevent nuclear war.
Fellowship of Reconciliation: An interfaith organization devoted to transforming all forms of social, environmental, and economic injustice through active and radical nonviolence.
Abolition 2000: A coalition of over 150 disarmament and peace groups including NGO’s worldwide working for the abolition of nuclear weapons.
The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom: Founded in 1915 during World War I, with Jane Addams as its first president, WILPF works to achieve through peaceful means world disarmament, full rights for women, racial and economic justice, an end to all forms of violence.

Pax Christi New York State (https://paxchristinys.org/) PCNYS is PCUSA’s newest state chapter and still in development, but we comprise four established regions: Pax Christi Long Island (the Rockville Centre Diocese), Pax Christi Metro New York (defined by the Archdiocese of New York and the Brooklyn Diocese), Pax Christi Upstate New York (the Dioceses of Rochester, Syracuse, Albany, and Ogdensburg), and Pax Christi Western New York (the Diocese of Buffalo). Within each of these four regions, there may be smaller local groups which are always eager to welcome new members. There is also always the possibility of starting a new local group. Just go to our Contact page to express your interest. Let us know where you are and how to contact you. We’ll be sure someone gets back to you in your part of the state.
NETWORK: A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby, educates, lobbies and organizes to influence the formation of federal legislation to promote economic and social justice.
Catholic Charities: The social service arm of the Catholic Church that protects and nurtures children, feeds the hungry,shelters the homeless, strengthens families in crisis, supports the physically and emotionally challenged, and welcomes and integrates immigrants and refugees.
World Beyond War: a global nonviolent movement to end war and establish a just and sustainable peace.