November is the month when we traditionally mourn our dead. 

In Justice and Peace we take particular care to remember and lament all those who tragically lose their lives to conflict, terror or hardship. On the third Monday of every month we gather outside the Home Office to pray by name, where it is known, for those who die on the way to seeking sanctuary in Europe. On 7^th November, we will join an ecumenical gathering at St Martin-in-the-Fields to remember all those who died homeless in London in the last year. We pray constantly for those who are losing their lives in the Middle East, in Sudan, Congo, Yemen, Ukraine and other wars.

This month may we be people of prayer who seek God’s help and mercy so that we may create a better world without such war and bitter loss.