Center for Nonviolence and World Peace

03/02/2026

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV has just spoke out about the US and Israeli strikes on Iran:
"In these dramatic hours, stability and peace cannot be built with mutual threats or with weapons that sow destruction, pain, and death. But only through reasonable, authentic, and responsible dialogue. Faced with the possibility of a tragedy of enormous proportions, I make a heartfelt appeal to the parties involved to assume their moral responsibility to stop the spiral of violence before it becomes an irreparable abyss.
May diplomacy regain its role and promote the good of peoples who yearn for peaceful coexistence based on justice. Let us continue to pray for peace."

03/02/2026

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul’s response to the strikes on Iran this morning ⬇️

“As yet another preemptive war is begun in the Middle East, John Quincy Adam’s words of wisdom still ring true:

“Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be.”

Like most Americans I have sympathy for the plight of the Iranian people and all subjected people around the globe, from North Korea to Tibet.

But as Adam’s wrote, America: “goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy.

She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.”

The Constitution conferred the power to declare or initiate war to Congress for a reason, to make war less likely.

Madison wrote that “the Executive Branch is the branch most prone to war, therefore, the Constitution, with studied care, delegated the war power to the legislature.”

As with all war, my first and purest instinct is wish Americans soldiers safety and success in their mission.

But my oath of office is to the Constitution, so with studied care, I must oppose another Presidential war.”

02/23/2026

Senator Rand Paul said remarks by Justice Neil Gorsuch (one of the six justices in the majority that struck down most of Trump’s tariffs) should be “required reading” for those placing loyalty to a person over the Constitution, calling them a reminder of duty to the rule of law.

Gorsuch serves on the Supreme Court of the United States, which struck down Donald Trump’s tariffs in a decision written by Chief Justice John Roberts.

📸: Getty

02/22/2026

When a two-paragraph memo from Mike Johnson denied civil rights icon Jesse Jackson the honor of lying in the Rotunda, many expected quiet outrage. Instead, five defiant words—We will not be erased—ignited protests across all 50 states, proving his six-decade fight beside history’s giants still commands the nation’s conscience. 🔗: https://cnews.topnewsource.com/?p=43523

02/20/2026

Lynchburg Area Youth Sports Initiative is proud to invite the community to the Fifth Annual Unity Walk & Celebration on Saturday, February 21, 2026, in Downtown Lynchburg. This year’s Unity Walk will center on Education, highlighting the role of learning, access, and opportunity in building

02/20/2026

Do the good in front of you—even if it feels small.

02/19/2026

Join us for the Unity Walk in Lynchburg, Virginia February 21st

Lynchburg Area Youth Sports Initiative is proud to invite the community to the Fifth Annual Unity Walk & Celebration on Saturday, February 21, 2026, in Downtown Lynchburg. This year’s Unity Walk will center on Education, highlighting the role of learning, access, and opportunity in building

02/18/2026

Join us Saturday for the Unity Walk

02/18/2026

Resisting the Language That Makes Harm Possible