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UN Youth Contest Winners Announced, Russian Interfaith Harmony Week Reflections, Kids Sports App Scores Millennium Development Goals, Women's Prayer Circle March 11, Atlanta Becomes an official Compassionate City

The Power of Women as Agents For Peace


Amid 39 active conflicts over the last 10 years, few women have actually been at the table of peace negotiations. Out of 585 peace treaties drafted over the last two decades, only 16 percent contain specific references to women. Furthermore, around the world 1 in 3 women are subject to “non peaceful” or violent situations, including sexual and physical abuses. Read more...

Starting Interfaith in Siberia Not An Easy Task  

The world we live in is overloaded with hatred these days, and religious conflicts bring us to disasters. What we need today is to change the paradigm of thinking from confrontations to understanding that we belong to one world, to one planet, to One God, whoever God is for each one of us.My friends and I- being very much concerned about the situation- made attempts to find a possibility of cooperation between representatives of some religious institutions in our city Read more...

Charter for Compassion Wins Over Atlanta City Council

  ...BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT THE CITY OF ATLANTA IS DESIGNATED A COMPASSIONATE CITY, reads the unanimous resolution voted in by the City Council of Atlanta, which became official on February 12, 2014. This encouraging progress for the Charter for Compassion comes this week from the Parliament's Faiths Against Hate partners in Atlanta, championed by by Chair Emeritus Rev. Bob Thompson and a collective of three major interfaith organizations in the greater Atlanta area. After launching Read more... 

Women and Peacekeeping is a Growing Force
Via the United Nations 

 

In Spirit or NYC: Women's Prayer Circle for UN-CSW Tuesday


The Parliament Women's Task Force, Women of Spirit and Faith and others invite all to join in an evening of prayers from many faith traditions and circle dialogue exploring commitments to women and girls and intentions for this 58th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. All are invited to Remembering the Sacred Heart of Your Activism: An Evening of Prayer, Reflection and Read more...
 

Emerging Leaders Become UN-DPI Youth Reps 

 
The Parliament of the World’s Religions was honored by receiving outstanding applications to represent us at the Youth Representative program of the United Nations DPI-NGO body for 2014. As the UN works to implement its post Millennium Development Goals agenda, these young leaders stand to implement action aligned to the Parliament’s mission of creating a more peaceful, just, and sustainable world. We are Read more...
 
App Teaches Kids to 'Score' Millennium Development Goals 
 
'Score The Goals: Teaming Up to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals' is an educational comic featuring ten football/soccer UN Goodwill Ambassadors, who are challenged to tackle the eight Millennium Development Goals along their journey towards being rescued. The youth-oriented comic book provides a fun interactive way to help understand, familiarise and reflect about poverty and development issues. The app includes the comic book in six Learn more...
 

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