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MALAWI
Malawi is pleased to join the Global Community in honoring the UN's IDP in 2006. We will celebrate it in a much bigger way this year, following the success of our very first IDP event in 2005. This year we have five centres where URI Malawi CC members will gather to dance, sing, recite poems, pray and give talks on Peace. CCs will engage grassroot participation by incorporating involvement of the youth religious leaders, local leaders and district assembly officials. For the first time we will have a celebration in the Central part of Malawi and hopefully we will go to the North next year.
The Bahai Community in the Capital City of Lilongwe will gather in the evening to listen to a peace talk by the UNDP official - again they are doing this for the first time and this is really good news for us. We hope that all events will be exciting and inspiring.
We will be with everyone in spirit.
May peace prevail on earth!!!
Delix, National Coordinator- URI-Malawi
Joyce, URI Africa Zone Coordinator
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THE PHILIPPINES
THEME: Lagi, Sa Lahat ng Paraan, KAPAYAPAAN!
[Always, All Ways for PEACE!]
Rationale:
On September 7, 2001, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously passed Resolution 55/82 designating September 21st of each year as International Day of Peace (IDP).
The Assembly declared that the Day be observed as a day of global ceasefire and non-violence; an invitation to honor a cessation of hostilities. All peoples and organizations are invited to commemorate it through education, public awareness, and to cooperate with the UN in lobbying and establishing a global ceasefire.
Initiatives:
Upon the invitation of the ‘International Day of Peace Vigil’ group through the Canossian Sisters in 2003, the Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation Commission of the Association of Major Religious Superiors in the Philippines (JPICC-AMRSP) took the initiative to convene the different Inter-faith groups based in the Philippines and coordinated the activities in observance of the UN-IDP in our country.
Objectives:
In the previous years, efforts to continue raising public awareness of Sept. 21 as International Day of Peace and remembering peace advocates, achievements and contributions made by all Peace-builders have been undertaken to instill the importance of an IDP. This year with the context as its starting point, it aims:
- To celebrate a day of Peace based on Justice in response to the “Situations of Injustices” in Contemporary Philippines especially to highlight the present political and economic crises in the country and how we can work together to overcome these.
- To continue initiatives and solidarity with International bodies/groups in promoting Peace efforts especially against the rationalization of War as necessary in the “dynamics of the modern world.
Programs:
Peace March (5PM Peace Bell Memorial, Quezon City Circle to Bantayog ng mga Bayani at cor. Quezon Ave., EDSA)
Cultural Program/Inter-Faith Peace Prayers/Prayer Vigil on the eve of September 20 (7 PM) until 5 AM of September 21. Venue: Bantayog ng mga Bayani, QC
Other Activities:
AUGUST 21- MEDIA LAUNCHING OF IDP 2006 together with known Peace
advocates in society. VENUE (to be announced)
AUGUST-SEPTEMBER- EDUCATION TOUR AMONG SCHOOLS, PARISHES, COMMUNITIES AND RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS. The education tour will give free lectures on Peace through a 15-minute Power point presentation and a Study Guide for Teachers, Facilitators and Students. Also, parallel exhibits in Peace campaigns will be done by member-conveners of IDP 2006.
IDP 2006 Preparatory Committee:
Association of Major Religious Superiors in the Philippines (AMRSP) and its Mission Partners, Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation (JPICC), Task Force Detainees of the Philippines (TFDP), Urban Missionaries (UM), Women and Gender Commission (WGC), Rural Missionaries of the Philippines (RMP), Task Force on Urban Concientization (TFUC), Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation - Cannosian Sisters (JPIC-FdCC), Franciscan Movement for Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation (FMJPIC), Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception (SFIC), Missionary Congregation of the Servants of the Holy Spirit- SPACO,
Kaalagad Katipunang Kristiyano (KKK), URI Peacemakers’ Circle Foundation, Pro-Worker Resource Center for People’s Development (RCPD),
Iraq Solidarity Campaign (ISC), World Peace Prayer Society-Phils (WPPS-Phils)
For Details and more Information, call the IDP 2006 Secretariat
c/o JPICC-AMRSP 436-2561 or E-mail us at
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