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Tanenbaum’s newest , Transforming Conflict: Tools for in Our Diverse World, teaches constructive responses to conflict that allow for personal & communal growth amongst .
Its interactive lessons help students create caring, respectful spaces where everyone can feel safe in their full identities.
Check out on Tanenbaum’s website today!
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Learn about Zoroastrianism for free online!
FEZANA’s Religion Education Committee has put together a 10 page document which goes over the Zoroastrian religion and traditions.
Visit FEZANA.org/education to learn more about the Zoroastrian faith 🙌🏼
Network members supporting other members! 🤝 Learn how two organizations were able to meet and continue to during the 2022 Advisory Group Meeting👇
African Students For Interfaith Tolerance
Judaeo-Papiamento, which has traces of Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch and Hebrew, is spoken by the Sephardic Jewish community of Curaçao.
Hampton County, SC proclaims Gullah/Geechee Nation Appreciation Week 2023!
www.GullahGeecheeNation.com
Mark Your Calendars! Our Annual Convention Dates Are Here! - https://mailchi.mp/sosspeace.org/75-years-later-personal-narratives-and-reflections-2773037
For the first time since 1991, Muslims, Jews, Christians, Sikhs, Baha'is, Hindus, Buddhists,Jain and Indigenous nations will observe holidays simultaneously. In April, this includes celebrations of Ramadan, Passover, Easter, Vaisakhi, Mahavir Jayanti, Theravada, New Year and the Gathering of Nations.
Join us on Sunday, April 24, 3:30pm - 5:00pm on ZOOM as we learn more about these celebrations from practitioners of the
respected faith traditions!
Sunday, April 24, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Register:
https://bit.ly/AprilHolidays2022
All are Welcome! Free to the Community!
Zoroastrians at the United Nations
Opportunities to Engage
Abstract
Educational opportunities to empower disadvantaged sectors of civil society and action programs that individuals can take locally to address issues of Climate Change will be the focus of this panel discussion.
Fifteen-year-old high school student Mahtab B. Dastur from Houston, founder of a non-profit Books2Smiles, will explore with Afreed Mistry, FEZANA’s main representative at the UN, opportunities to engage on the Ava Project. Co-panelist, Freyaz Shroff, founder of KurNiv Foundation will share a model developed in the streets of Mumbai to help the needy.
Come, join our progressive team.
Speaker
Afreed Mistry has been volunteering for the Zoroastrian Community since the age of 13. She has been actively involved with the local Toronto community, FEZANA and the Global Zoroastrian community. In 2018, she was one of the Masters of Ceremonies at the 11th World Zoroastrian Congress in Perth, Australia. Afreed has co-Chaired two North American Zoroastrian Youth Congresses in Toronto and Miami. She has attended twelve Zoroastrian Congresses all over the World and has been a speaker at six of them. Afreed is also FEZANA’s main representative to the United Nations. She has attended and presented at eight United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women (UN CSW) Conferences.
Speaker
Freyaz Shroff was born and raised in India and educated in America, Freyaz moved back to India in 2006 with a Bachelors in Sociology and an M.B.A. in International Business and Marketing. Despite a successful corporate career, both in America and India, in mid-2018, Freyaz chose to step into a direction that spoke more to her heart.
Freyaz, established “KurNiv Foundation,” a non-profit organization, focused on preparing students, living primarily below the poverty line, in gaining admission into and completing college graduation through a proven peer to peer mentorship model.
Freyaz spoke at the United Nations’ Commission of the Status of Women (UN CSW) in 2012. Her students addressed the UN CSW in 2021. Freyaz won the Jamshed Pavri Humanitarian Award in 2012.
Moderator
Mahtab B. Dastur is a 15-year-old in 10th grade from Spring, Texas. She is immensely involved in her community and is extremely proud of her Zoroastrian faith. Mahtab and her brother have founded their own non-profit organization called Books2Smiles which sends books around the world to those who do not have access to them, particularly children. Mahtab believes the environment is a precious resource that must be preserved for future generations and that helping those less fortunate is her duty. In her free time, Mahtab enjoys reading and dancing. Mahtab’s lifelong goal is to make a lasting difference in the world.
Holidays important to a number of faith communities will converge this month for the first time in decades. In a time of rising faith-based bigotry, this should be a moment for Chicagoans of diverse backgrounds to learn about each other.
Ramadan starts this weekend! I've developed some new resources -- classroom Powerpoint presentation, story, crafts, recommended kids' book list, etc. Check everything out in my blog that came out today on the Religion Matters site. https://religionmatters.org/blog/how-do-you-teach-about-ramadan-in-k-5-classroom/
'For the deplorable conduct of these members of the Catholic Church — I ask for God's forgiveness and I want to say to you with all my heart, I am very sorry,' Pope Francis said.
[Episcopal News Service — Navasota, Texas] The House of Bishops voted unanimously to issue statements condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and political actions targeting transgender people at i…
ROME — Pope Francis on March 22 spoke for a second time by phone with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who said he would welcome a Vat...
Representatives of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the still Moscow Patriarchate, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, the Chief Rabbi of Odessa and the Deputy Imam recorded a general appeal to the townspeople.
The clergy say they are praying for peace in Ukraine.
“We sometimes have different doctrines, but the desire for peace, the desire to live in a good-neighborly and honest way has always been carried out in Odessa,” assures the dean of the churches of the first Odessa district of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine of the still Moscow Patriarchate, Archpriest Pavlo Poleshchuk.
“The free don't need liberation. Odessa is a freedom-loving city, like the whole of Ukraine. The Russian world that Russia carries is not peace. This is the evil that destroys our cities, destroys our villages, kills our people. We pray to God that the war ends, that it does not reach Odessa. We ask God to stop those who want this war to continue,” adds Father Teodor Orobets, secretary of the Odessa diocese of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.
Chief Rabbi of Odessa and the South of Ukraine Avraham Wolf says he is proud to live in Ukraine and Odessa.
“This is the best city and the best country. The most loyal country to any nationality. I am proud that I live in this city where one can develop and work,” the rabbi said.
“Odessa is a big family, in this family we are different, but we are united. We don't need to be freed from anything. We need something else — to be left alone,” said Fr Oleksandr Smerechinsky, director of the Marine Apostle of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
“We ask Allah to save our country, our beloved Ukraine. We grew up here. Our country raised us, our country dressed and taught us. We all united in the fight against evil, and evil has no nationality,” Deputy Imam Askar Jasimov said.
For the first time in the history of Religions for Peace, the World Council, the governing body of Religions for Peace, composed of senior most faith leaders representing faith communities around the world, has issued a statement on International Women's Day.
The World Council acknowledges that women are impacted most severely by today's multiple and simultaneous challenges of war, environmental degradation, violence, and poverty, committing to work together to support women's voices, leadership and needs globally.
🔗 https://bit.ly/361k5l6
Religions for Peace and partners will be holding an art exhibit on Monday, 14 March, 2022. The art exhibit “Envisioning the Divine: Multi-Faith Inspiration from Africa,” will showcase artwork created by female artists that focuses on multi-faith influence.
To RSVP, please email [email protected].
🗓 14 March, 2022
⏰ 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm EST
📍 777 UN Plaza, New York, NY 10017
As explosions are taking place in Kyiv and other places in Ukraine, we lift up our hands in prayer. We pray for the people of Ukraine and we pray for the people of Russia. We pray for a just peace. We pray for our world. God forgive us.
(RNS) — Their characterizations of the conflict, however, are very different.
The Polish Bishops' Conference is responding to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Conference president and Archbishop Stanislaw Gądecki of Poznan, conference president, released the letter Feb. 24 as reports come in of casualties and destruction as a result from the Russian invasion. The letter can be ...
ADL Statement on Russian Invasion of Ukraine New York, NY, February 24, 2022 ... ADL (Anti-Defamation League) released the following statement on Russia's invasion of Ukraine: "ADL condemns in the strongest terms Russia's unprovoked war of aggression against Ukraine, a blatant violation of internati...
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