A movement committed to interfaith, South-South and North-South solidarity, and progressive faith-based discourse.

We reach out to engage faith communities and social movements to cultivate and mobilize the power of our faith and spirituality in the struggle for social justice and peace, and against global hegemony as a South-based solidarity network of peace advocates.

HISTORY

Peace for Life traces its roots to the International Ecumenical Conference on Terrorism in a Globalized World convened in Manila in September 2002, a year after the Philippines was singled out as the “second front of the war on terror” after Afghanistan.

Co-sponsored by the World Council of Churches, Christian Conference of Asia and National Council of Churches in the Philippines, this international gathering of 135 church leaders and activists from 28 countries, who spoke of the combined effects of the new U.S. aggression and called for the creation of a new ecumenical alliance that will build faith-based resistance to the terror of war and economic globalization. 

Peace for Life was formally inaugurated at the First People’s Forum with the theme “Sowing Seeds of Peace in the Era of Empire: Christmas in Solidarity with Muslims.” Held in Southern Philippine island of Mindanao with a significant Muslim population, it broadened a predominantly Protestant network to draw in progressive Muslim allies.