In Focus
Learning to Live Together, a resource material to nurture ethical values needed to learn to live together in plural societies, is now available for teachers and youth leaders. Read more ...
Highlights
Learning to Live Together
Children in World Religions
Children and Media
Child Rights
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The study team of the Joint GNRC - UNICEF Study met in Florence 15 - 18 October for its Second Meeting at the UNICEF Innocenti Research Center
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has assured Rev. Keishi Miyamoto and a high-level GNRC delegation of his support for stronger ties between the GNRC and the United Nations and its agencies, in particular UNICEF and UNESCO.
GNRC Israel has completed a successful six-day program that took 22 young people on a "Journey of Discovery" to various historical sites in Israel/Palestine. Read a day by day narrative describing the profound things they discovered together...
GNRC Africa held its third Peace Camp July 4-7, 2007, with over 70 participants on the occasion of the Zanzibar International Film Festival. It also conducted an animation training workshop for children, teachers and educators to enhance their knowledge of using child-friendly media to promote ethics education and build peace. Read the latest news from GNRC Africa.
The themes, program, and other key aspects of the Third Forum were determined at the recent meeting of the GNRC Third Forum Organizing Committee held July 12-13 in Geneva, Switzerland. The main theme of the Forum, which emphasizes the need for humility and cooperation among people of faith, will be:
LEARNING TO SHARE
Values, Action, Hope
Eighteen members of the GNRC Europe from seven countries and four religious traditions met in Paris from May 25-27, 2007, to identify the main problems facing children across Europe and determine how the GNRC will respond in the region in the lead-up to the GNRC Third Forum in May 2008. Visit the GNRC Europe News page to read more...
The joint GNRC – UNICEF project Children in World Religions has started with a first meeting of the Study Team on May 15 – 17, 2007 in Tokyo, Japan. Read more...
The first meeting of the GNRC Third Forum Organizing Committee was held in Tokyo, Japan from March 17 to 20, 2007, and preparations for the Third Forum are now officially underway. The Third Forum will take place in Hiroshima, Japan from May 24 to 26, 2008, followed by an assembly for prayer in Fukuoka, Japan on May 28.
About 500 children from various schools in the city of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania participated in this year’s fete in which the International Day of Peace was marked around the world. The children and young persons from the GNRC Peace Clubs had earlier made 50 'Kites for Peace' which were flown at the seaside Coco Beach area in the afternoon of the UN peace day on 21 September after games on peace conducted by the Right to Play coaches.
The first interreligious colloquium of the GNRC-Belgium for young people was held in Brussels from January 26 to 28, 2007. The meeting, organized by Mrs. Ana María Serrano, a member of the GNRC-Europe, brought together 40 participants from various religious communities to consider the theme of "Human Dignity" from a diverse range of perspectives. The participants, most of them aged between 15 and 18 years old, represented the Bahá'í, Buddhist, Christian, Jewish and Muslim communities.
