“It is an ecclesial institution created to promote in the Church, in each one of the Christians, and in all the ecclesial organisms, the experience and the commitment in favor of the values” enunciated in its acronym. This organism is promoted by the Franciscan family and other religious groups at the international level, working from the different ecological needs of the different cultures of the countries where its promoters are located.
The first seeds that gave rise to this movement were sown “on April 20, 1967, when Pope Paul VI created the Commission of Justitiam et Pacem (Justice and Peace), but it was not until 1988 with the Apostolic Constitution Pastor Bonus that a transformation took place under the name of the Council for Justice and Peace, with the aim of promoting justice and peace in the world according to the Gospel and the social doctrine of the Church”
