Press Releases & Updates 1998

On Saturday and Sunday (14th and 15th November) Trident Ploughshares 2000 activists will combine prayer with direct action in pursuit of their disarmament campaign against the Trident nuclear weapons system, culminating in a Sunday afternoon service conducted by prominent Scottish churchmen, Maxwell Craig and Norman Shanks.

On Saturday at 12 noon at the North Gate of the Faslane Naval Base, a dozen members of the ecumenical organisation, the Iona Community, will conduct a short service including prayers and readings backed by a banner reading : "Christians Against Trident". The service will be followed by direct action involving at least five of the group, including theology graduate and German national Dirk Grutzmacher, , Maire-Colette Wilkie, a Roman Catholic and a former member of the Dominican Order, and Alan Wilkie, a Church of Scotland elder and former company director.

On Sunday at 4pm, a service of worship will be conducted by two Scottish church leaders, Rev. Maxwell Craig and Rev. Norman Shanks. Maxwell Craig is the leader of the ecumenical organisation, Action for Churches Together in Scotland (ACTS) and a Church of Scotland minister who lives in Dunblane. Norman Shanks, also a Church of Scotland Minister and former Convener of its Church and Nation Committee, is leader of the Iona Community.

The service will include songs from the Wild Goose singing group, together with readings and prayers.

Maxwell Craig said:

"Trident is a deadly machine which can never be used, which is contrary to international law and which makes most of us deeply ashamed. It’s time to scrap it."

Printer friendly version

Home | Top