Today (September 21st) is International Peace Day.
“Peace in its most fundamental form is the connection of one human spirit to another.
10 Million Clicks For Peace hastens the connection process. What a beautiful and remarkable concept!”
Archbishop Emeritus
Desmond Tutu
Nobel Peace Laureate
The 10 million clicks for peace is a way to use technology to ease the burdon of peacemakers by involving ordinary people to create a more peaceful world. Their basis for increasing peace is to eradicate the reasons people go to war – which essentially means increasing the well-being of all people.
Can a few Clicks be THIS Powerful?
Finally, the Internet comes together to do something about peace. Now you really CAN make a difference to make this world a better place! Your clicks count. Make them now!
http://www.tenmillionclicksforpeace.org
Australia will try to find another country to take in 72 Sri Lankan refugees who have been detained on Nauru since their boat was intercepted by the Royal Australian Navy near Christmas Island in February.
A number of others on the boat are still being assessed to determine whether their claims for asylum are genuine.
Federal Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews says that because the group tried to enter Australia illegally they will not be allowed to remain here, despite their assessment as genuine refugees.
So far 21,172 people have faced up to poverty. The make poverty history campaign invites you to sign up as well…
Australia’s biggest photo petition:
Face Up provides a unique opportunity prior to the Federal election to show our political leaders the growing number of faces behind the call for policy change for more and better overseas aid.
Give more than just your signature to Make Poverty History. This is your chance to go that extra step and help get the Australian Government to Face Up To Poverty by adding your face to the first ever Make Poverty History photo petition.
On September 21st, many will be marking the day as International Day of Peace.
You are invited to join the worldwide movement to create a Global Ceasefire and day of peace and nonviolence. To find out what is happening near you or what you can do to promote peace, check out the Peace Day website. It includes resources, UN resolutions, music for peace, things for kids to do towards peace, and how to create a culture for peace.
Tributes have been pouring in from across the world for green and ethical business pioneer Anita Roddick, founder of the Body Shop chain and supporter of Fair Trade, who died on 10 September 2007 aged 64 after a major brain haemorrhage.Dame Anita, the daughter of Italian immigrants, set up the first Body Shop in Brighton in 1976 – when its approach was regarded as radical and new. She pioneered cruelty-free beauty products and turned them into a highly profitable enterprise.
The head of the British army during the Iraq invasion has launched a scathing attack on US post-war policy, a newspaper reported, underlining growing trans-Atlantic strains over Iraq.
General Sir Mike Jackson, a now retired former chief of the general staff, said the approach taken by former US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was “intellectually bankrupt” and described his comment that US forces “don’t do nation-building” as “nonsensical”, The Daily Telegraph said.
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South Korea’s hostage nightmare is finally over, but the 19 former captives will face questions when they return home about an Afghan aid mission which sparked a six-week crisis and cost two lives.
“Thank God. They are all freed now,” Je Mi-Sook said after her brother Je Chang-Hee was released by Afghanistan’s Taliban.
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The latest newsletter resource from Christianity 9 to 5 is now available here.
It includes this devotional article: Doing Your Job as Jesus Would Do It
by Dallas Willard
“Willard may be to the 21st century what CS Lewis was to the 20th. He says more in this brief devotional piece than most writers say in an entire book.”
A piece of art which depicts a bearded Osama bin Laden transforming into a bearded Jesus Christ has upset two formidable art critics – the Prime Minister and the Opposition Leader.
John Howard and Kevin Rudd are quoted in News Limited newspapers this morning complaining about Bearded Orientals: Making the Empire Cross and another entry for this year’s Blake Prize for Religious Art.
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A piece of art which depicts a bearded Osama bin Laden transforming into a bearded Jesus Christ has upset two formidable art critics – the Prime Minister and the Opposition Leader.
John Howard and Kevin Rudd are quoted in News Limited newspapers this morning complaining about Bearded Orientals: Making the Empire Cross and another entry for this year’s Blake Prize for Religious Art.
Read full story from ABC news>>