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Friday, May 8, 2009
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Peace Tour Lands in Madrid
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Madrid, Spain - The Global Peace Tour 2009 arrived in Madrid for an evening of interreligious dialogue, entertainment, and discussion of ways to strengthen the family and promote an attitude of service to society.
The event took place in a downtown hotel of Madrid, Hotel Tryp Atocha, and was attended by 200 people representing all walks of life. Most of the guests were long-time friends of our UPF activities, giving the event a kind of family reunion spirit.
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| Peace Tour in Bulgaria Advocates Good Leadership |
Sofia, Bulgaria - On the second day of the Orthodox Easter, Bulgaria welcomed the Global Peace Tour 2009. The event was hold at the Hotel Central in the very center of the city of Sofia. It was a good opportunity to organize on the same day a half-day conference for educating Ambassadors for Peace. The first session was on the topic "Good governance, good leadership." This issue is especially important for Bulgaria, since the quality of leaders has been a matter of serious discussions during the past two or three years in the country.
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| International Audience for Andorra Event |
Andorra La Vella, Andorra - About a hundred people from throughout Europe, Asia, and South America attended a Peace Tour gathering at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Andorra La Vella. The audience in this small country in the mountains between France and Spain included Christians, Buddhists, and Muslims. There were Catholic priests, NGO leaders, and members of an English-speaking association as well as representatives from the UPF community in nearby Barcelona, Spain.
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| United Nations International Day of Families |
The UPF has created a portal page for the United Nations International Day of Families being held worldwide on May 15th. The UPF is planning several events around the world to commemorate this day. To find out more on the IDF come visit our page or the UN Official site.
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UN International Day of Families: UPF Activities
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Geneva Roundtable, May 15
New York Symposium, May 18
Bangladesh, May 15
Canada, May 7, 15
France, May 16
Norway, May 15
Sweden, May 15
Taiwan, May 15-16
Washington DC, May 15
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FREE- UPF Today ( PDF) May Edition in Korean and Russian
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Free PDF of UPF Today. The newest issue of UPF Today has been released in Korean and Russian. Get your copy of the May 2009 edition today!
Highlights:
- MDGs and the Role of Women
- Kenya Youth Summit
- Malaysian Children Raise Funds for Children in Gaza
- Former Secretary-General Says UN Must Change
- New Vision Amid Economic Crisis
And much more..
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UPF.ORG Statistics: Visitors from 165 Countries
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In April, UPF.ORG had visitors from 165 countries. The top ten is topped by the United States.
Several countries have moved up in the ranks including Russia, the Philippines, and Malaysia. Come visit our site and put your own county in the top ten!
1. United States
2. Japan
3. United Kingdom
4. Russia
5. Canada
6. Philippines
7. Austria
8. Switzerland
9. Germany
10. Malaysia
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Thursday, May 7, 2009
The question of an interreligious council at the UN is arguably not a question of renewing but rather reforming “the spirit of the UN.” In histories of the UN the “spiritual” dimension of the organization is often not acknowledged. Yet, a pervasive sense of a spiritual as well as a practical task of world organization can be traced to the Atlantic Charter of 1941 and many of the speeches at the San Francisco conference in 1945 which led to the founding of the UN.
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Friday, May 1, 2009
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Global Tour: Lebanese Youth Call for Peace
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Beirut, Lebanon - Young people are the hope and future for each nation, and this is even more the case in countries like Lebanon that are seeking to move on from a generation of instability and violence in the region. With this in mind UPF Lebanon decided to make sure that the Beirut stop on the Global Peace Tour - part of the United Nations International Year of Reconciliation - included plenty of youth-oriented activities.
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| Peace Tour in Bulgaria Advocates Good Leadership |
Sofia, Bulgaria - On the second day of the Orthodox Easter, Bulgaria welcomed the Global Peace Tour 2009. The event was hold at the Hotel Central in the very center of the city of Sofia. It was a good opportunity to organize on the same day a half-day conference for educating Ambassadors for Peace. The first session was on the topic "Good governance, good leadership." This issue is especially important for Bulgaria, since the quality of leaders has been a matter of serious discussions during the past two or three years in the country.
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| Orphan Outreach: Families for Children |
United States - The Ambassadors for Peace Association of Virginia has launched a new task force: Global Orphan Outreach, Families for Children. The desire to help underprivileged children and orphans has been repeatedly expressed by Ambassadors for Peace, (AFPs) and many active AFPs are currently running projects which help orphans, or have done this type of work in the past.
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| United Nations International Day of Families |
The UPF has created a portal page for the United Nations International Day of Families being held worldwide on May 15th. The UPF is planning several events around the world to commemorate this day. To find out more on the IDF come visit our page or the UN Official site.
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FREE- UPF Today ( PDF) May Edition in Korean and Russian
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Free PDF of UPF Today. The newest issue of UPF Today has been released in Korean and Russian. Get your copy of the May 2009 edition today!
Highlights:
- MDGs and the Role of Women
- Kenya Youth Summit
- Malaysian Children Raise Funds for Children in Gaza
- Former Secretary-General Says UN Must Change
- New Vision Amid Economic Crisis
And much more..
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UPF.ORG Statistics: Visitors from 165 Countries
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In April, UPF.ORG had visitors from 165 countries. The top ten is topped by the United States.
Several countries have moved up in the ranks including Russia, the Philippines, and Malaysia. Come visit our site and put your own county in the top ten!
1. United States
2. Japan
3. United Kingdom
4. Russia
5. Canada
6. Philippines
7. Austria
8. Switzerland
9. Germany
10. Malaysia
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Friday, April 24, 2009
| April 2009 |
Vol 4, Issue 10
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Interfaith, Intercultural Alliances at the UN in Geneva
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Geneva, Switzerland - When nine religious leaders, role-played by youth delegates representing their faiths, reported the results of their fact-finding missions to the Middle East and South Asia on "Prevention, Mediation and Peacebuilding" in a simulation of the "United Nations Interreligious Council", the full room of more than 250 government and UN representatives, religious leaders, experts and civil society leaders listened intently.
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| Peace Tour in Sierra Leone Conflict Hot Spot |
Kenema, Sierra Leone - An International Leadership Conference and Global Peace Tour event was held in Kenema, a town at the center of recent violence and conflict. The Conference registered religious leaders, members of civil society groups, NGO's and members from the community anxious to hear new ways of reaching for reconciliation..
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| Liberia Women's Summit |
Monrovia, Liberia - The International Colloquium on Women's Empowerment, Leadership Development, International Peace and Security was held in Monrovia, Liberia. The event was co-hosted by H.E. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia, the first African female president, along with H.E. Tarja Kaarina Halonen, LLM, the first woman to be president of Finland
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| Moving On From the Americas Summit |
New York, United States - Despite the failure to reach a unified statement, the recently concluded Americas Summit in Trinidad and Tobago is certainly a step in the right direction. But there is much work to do.
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FREE- UPF Today ( PDF) May Edition in Korean and Russian
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Free PDF of UPF Today. The newest issue of UPF Today has been released in Korean and Russian. Get your copy of the May 2009 edition today!
Highlights:
- MDGs and the Role of Women
- Kenya Youth Summit
- Malaysian Children Raise Funds for Children in Gaza
- Former Secretary-General Says UN Must Change
- New Vision Amid Economic Crisis
And much more..
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UPF.ORG Statistics: Visitors from 170 Countries
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In March, UPF.ORG had visitors from 170 countries. The top ten is topped by the United States. Come visit our site and put your own county in the top ten!
1. United States
2. Japan
3. United Kingdom
4. Canada
5. Philippines
6. Switzerland
7. Germany
8. South Korea
9. Romania
10. Austria
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Friday, April 10, 2009
| April 2009 |
Vol 4, Issue 9
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| New Vision Amid the Economic Crisis |
London, United Kingdom - Standing room only, in the House of Parliament's largest committee room, this conference, New Vision Amid the Economic Crisis, contrasted the moral and spiritual values promoted by civil society and faith based groups with the approach of the G20 Nations Summit held at the same time in another part of London. In the lead up to the G20 UPF had issued a Statement emphasising the need for ethical change.
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Global Peace Tour in the Eternal City
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Rome, Italy - The Global Peace Tour event in Italy took place in a conference hall at the national parliament, with support and participation from a number of senators and deputies from the national assembly and local political leaders from Rome and other cities, some of whom who had travelled through the night in order to attend.
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| Our Partnership with the United Nations and UNESCO |
Remarks at a Global Peace Tour 2009 session at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France, March 31, 2009.
Humanity is indeed one family but remains a divided family. International institutions such as the United Nations and UNESCO stand in positions analogous to parents in a family. The task of parents is to nurture, support, educate, and, when necessary, maintain order.
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| Global Peace and the Family |
Dhaka, Bangladesh - Straight talk about the sacredness of human sexuality: "This is exactly what we should be telling our students," declared Dr. Eva Saadia Saad, Chairman, Department of World Religions, Dhaka University who chaired the one-day seminar on "Family is the Foundation for World Peace."
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FREE- UPF Today ( PDF)
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Free PDF of UPF Today. The newest issue of UPF Today has been released. Get your copy of the April 2009 edition today!
Highlights:
- World Summit on Peace
- Midanao Peace Initative
- The UPF in Moscow
- UPF Principles and the Drafting of the Nepal Constitution
- The GPF in Haifa
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UPF.ORG Statistics: Visitors from 170 Countries
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In March, UPF.ORG had visitors from 170 countries. The top ten is topped by the United States. Come visit our site and put your own county in the top ten!
1. United States
2. Japan
3. United Kingdom
4. Canada
5. Philippines
6. Switzerland
7. Germany
8. South Korea
9. Romania
10. Austria
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Thursday, April 2, 2009
The family is a cell of society. It was written in many textbooks when I studied at school. Our generation was educated in very strong family-based values. Respect for our mother, father, grandmother and grandfather was unconditional and unquestioned.
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Thursday, April 2, 2009
Within the African tradition, it is often said that the family makes children by providing them with a livelihood and by molding their personality, while children make the family by giving it cohesion and a sense of mission and responsibility.
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Thursday, April 2, 2009
Whoever recognizes the importance of peace in the life of the human being will surely strive and will achieve accord with all people and will cooperate with others for the sake of keeping peace among all peoples.
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Thursday, April 2, 2009
My connections with UPF have helped me to really understand my duties and responsibilities within my family structure. Nowadays, with the encroachment of foreign influence, it is becoming clear that our family structure may one day cease to exist. UPF seeks to strengthen our existing family by defining and clarifying the duties and responsibilities of everyone in this structure.
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Thursday, April 2, 2009
I was born from a long line of traditional Shintoists and became a Shinto priest in 1963. I had an inborn gift for mediation and in 1983, I got a revelation from Takamimusubi, a creator god in Japanese religious tradition. At that time, my God became a golden pillar and entered my body in the course of my midwinter discipline, saying, “I have descended from heaven for the sake of world peace.” Until that time I had been praying only for Japan, so I was curious why I had to do something for world peace. Now I understand that my mission for world peace was predestined thirty years ago.
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Paris, France - Humanity is indeed one family but remains a divided family. International institutions such as the United Nations and UNESCO stand in positions analogous to parents in a family.
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Almost everyone in the world would agree that we are living in a time of global crisis. The attention of most governments, the G-20 nations, and the United Nations is currently focused on the ongoing worldwide financial chaos. On top of that, there is the continuing challenge of conflict and violence flaring up all over the world. Even more fundamentally, we face a growing moral and spiritual crisis at home and abroad, evidenced by the rise of family and social breakdown, and the current war against terror which could potentially escalate into a global religious conflict.
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