This morning in Cardiff, religious and political leaders came together to observe Holocaust Memorial Day. This commemoration of Wales honours the millions who perished in the Holocaust and subsequent genocides worldwide. The Lord Mayor, The Rt Hon Cllr Helen Lloyd Jones The theme for Holocaust Memorial Day this year is […]
In response to social media attacks directed at Welsh Refugee Council, WCIA extend our solidarity to the WRC. We fully sign up to and support the statement from WCVA, reproduced below. We are deeply concerned and disheartened to witness the recent attacks directed at the Welsh Refugee Council (WRC) on social […]
Over 2025-26, WCIA alongside Cytun (Churches Together in Wales) and community partners Wales-wide are marking the centenary of a remarkable 1925 campaign that sought to put ‘faith into action’, by bringing together the Churches of Wales in what is thought to have been the first ecumenical (interfaith) campaign of the […]
As part of the Women’s Peace Petition centenary celebrations, this booklet – Lleisiau’r Llofnodion (‘the voice of the signatures’) – brings together 11 hidden histories brought to life by direct descendants of women who signed the original petition, facilitated and collected by Llinos Griffin. […]
On Saturday 9th November, one of the highest Prides in the world brought a carnival of colour and cheer to the centre of Maseru, capital of Southern Africa’s ‘mountain kingdom of Lesotho’. Popularly called the ‘kingdom in the sky’ due to its high altitude, Basotho Pride organisers brought queens and […]
This astonishing ‘hidden history’ from the archives of Wales’ Temple of Peace shocks almost all who hear it – and yet offers a fascinating insight into the turbulent journey behind modern Wales. In the early hours of 17 November 1967, a terrorist bomb was detonated at Wales’ National Temple of […]
Supported by Academi Heddwch, Wales Arts International and Ruthin Craft Centre, this collaborative stitch project led by Ruthin-based artist Bethan M. Hughes was exhibited at Oriel Dory, Llangollen alongside the International Eisteddfod in July 2024. In November 2024, the film and some elements from Bethan’s project will be incorprated into […]
WCIA as a member of DEC Cymru, the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC), have launched a Middle East Humanitarian Appeal to raise urgent funds for people whose lives are being devastated by conflict. Over the past year, conflict in the Middle East has devastated lives across the region, and millions […]
Over the first week of August 2024, WCIA and Academi Heddwch brought debates of world peace to the world of Wales’ National Eisteddfod, hosted by Rhondda Cynon Taff this year in venues around Pontypridd (with a ‘maes’ / main field in Ynysangharad Park) over 3-10 August 2024. Much focus of […]
Over Spring 2023, WCIA have been proud to participate in a UK-wide programme initiative ‘Our Heritage Our Stories‘, managed through Glasgow University alongside a range of partners, and funded through the AHRC (Arts & Humanioties Research Council). OHOS’ funding has enabled WCIA to run a weekly programme of Wednesday afternoon […]
