As a Jesuit priest, peace activist, speaker and author, John Dear has devoted his life to nonviolence. He is the 40th, and most recent, recipient of the Pacem in Terris…
Christian conservatives’ support for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is well publicized, but there is also a long tradition in the U.S. of Christians using nonviolent direct action to…
We speak with longtime anti-nuclear activist and Jesuit priest, Father John Dear, who coordinates the annual Hiroshima Day peace vigil at Los Alamos on August 1st. Dear has been arrested…
“Priest Sentenced in Domenici Protest” Albuquerque Journal, Friday, January 25, 2008 (By Albq. Journal Staff, and Wire Report) Rev. John Dear was sentenced to 40 hours of community service and…
Last September, nine of us tried to deliver a letter to Senator Pete Domenici's office, asking him to help end the immoral U.S. war and occupation of Iraq. We entered…
The birthplace of the nuclear bomb looks remarkably similar to some hill towns in Iraq, according to peace activist Kathy Kelly. Except those towns don't have electricity, Kelly observed as…
For Father John Dear and the members of Pax Christi, a national Catholic peace movement, the decision on who should run Los Alamos National Laboratory for the next seven years…
LOS ALAMOS, NM- Sunflowers, ashes, songs and prayer were used to send one message here Saturday: Stop the bomb where it started. An estimated 500 people traveled from cities across…
Buddhists, Catholics and other proponents of peace and nuclear disarmament are massing this week to observe the 60th anniversary of the world's first nuclear attacks when the United States bombed…
"America" magazine associate editor George Anderson, S.J., interviewed John Dear in New York city on December 20, 2004, and later in January 2005. This interview is to be published in…