🇻🇦"IT IS NOT ATOMIC WEAPONS THAT GENERATE PEACE, BUT DISARMAMENT." - Pope Leo XIV

As global tensions rise and governments invest ever more heavily in weapons, Pope Leo XIV has issued a renewed call for nuclear disarmament in his book 'Disarmed and Disarming: Peace Is a Gift', released yesterday.

On Saturday 1st August, we invite you to join Christians from across Scotland at Faslane for our annual No to Nuclear Weapons Christian Peace Witness Vigil.

We'll gather alongside fellow Christian communities in prayer, reflection and peaceful public witness to affirm the Holy Father's message that genuine and lasting peace is built not on nuclear deterrence but on diplomacy, dialogue and disarmament.

🗓️Saturday 1st August
🕚 11.00am–12.30pm
📍 North Gate, HM Naval Base Clyde (Faslane)

🚌 FREE coach travel is available from Edinburgh and Glasgow (booking essential).
Pick up info:
🔹 Edinburgh: Waterloo Place (beside Waverley Station), departing 8.15am.
🔹 Glasgow: Gordon Street (outside Central Station), departing 9.30am.

📧To reserve your seat, email: [email protected]
Please include:
🔹Your name
🔹Pick-up point (Edinburgh or Glasgow)
🔹Number of seats required

🚆To make your own way to Faslane, take the train to Helensburgh Central and then the hourly 316 bus.

🕊Pope Leo also tells us in the preface to his book that "peace seeks witnesses." Will you be one of them with us next weekend?

Please share this invitation with your parish, friends and local community as we seek to gather as many people as possible to answer the Holy Father’s call.