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11 November 2009

Advent Vigil at Aldermaston Atomic Weapons Establishment

Thursdays in Advent 1 - 2 pm, November 26th December 3rd, 10th, 17th.

Local Christian groups, Pax Christi, Oxford, Clergy against Nuclear Arms, Oxford Christian CND and students from Reading, hold weekly candle lit Advent Vigils outside the Tadley Gate of the Aldermaston Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE). People of all Faiths and none are welcome.

Caroline Gilbert, Oxford Christian CND says 'like President Obama said, "this is a unique moment in history when we can break the nuclear chain".'

We should not be replacing Trident at a cost of £76bn but scrapping it. That would be a tremendous boost to the forthcoming negotiations on nuclear proliferation and disarmament, initiated by Ban Ki-Moon and President Obama, culminating in the Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in May this coming year.'

The Rt. Revd Stephen Cottrell, Bishop of Reading says:
How can we tell others not to possess something we are so keen not only to keep but also to upgrade? While the world needs investment to build a sustainable future we invest in bombs which only bring further instability to an already unstable world. The peace the world longs for can only be found beyond the futility of the arms race and in particular the horrors and waste of nuclear weapons. As the Anglican bishop who serving Berkshire I look forward to the day when Aldermaston leads the world. Not in making bombs but in decommissioning them, and I am happy to offer my support and prayers to all people of good will who want to build a sustainable world without the terror of nuclear arms.
Stephen Cottrell, 20th October 2008

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