Rabbi Mark Dratch is the executive vice president of the Rabbinical Council of America. Below, he reflects on what has inspired him amid the pain of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as how we can work together to create a redeemed world.
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Multifaith Prayers – International Nurses Day 2020
International Nurses Day is celebrated around the world every May 12, the anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth. Here we bring you multifaith prayers for nurses from the World’s Religions, along with the Nightingale Prayer, the flame of Florence Nightingale’s legacy.
An Interfaith Earth Day message in times of Covid 19 and Climate Emergency
Friends World Committee for Consultation has issued a statement from the Interfaith Liaison Committee (ILC) with regards to the postponement of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of Parties Meeting 26 – COP26, the next big Climate Change meeting.
Nationwide Multi Faith Service for the Climate
Australian Religious Response to Climate Change (ARRCC) invites you to be at the forefront of climate action in Australia. In this time of extreme adversity, people of faith can join together in the spirit of love, reverence and compassion.
Ramadan Conversations
You are invited to tune into the online “Ramadan Conversations” organised by Affinity. Each episode will be hosted by John Cleary (Former ABC veteran broadcaster) and a Muslim assistant.
10 Thoughts for coping with this pandemic
’10 thoughts for coping with this Pandemic’ is compilation of ideas from a group of lived experience consumers from north west area mental health service. It contains much home-spun wisdom and is worthy of a few minutes of your time. Many are called to listen, and listening allows for the weight of coronavirus. The coronavirus crisis is placing enormous pressure on health professions at the frontline in an environment described repeatedly as "unprecedented".
Interfaith: Vatican Message on Occasion of Vesak
In a message for the Buddhist feast of Vesak, the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue invites Buddhists and Christians to promote a culture of compassion and fraternity. The Pontifical Council also gives a prayer for coronavirus, that all live with this difficult moment with hope, compassion, and charity.
Faith, COVID-19 and the push for a healthy environment
Faith provides spiritual and practical support to billions of people, especially in times of crisis. We are seeing this in action yet again as churches, mosques, temples, other places of worship and faith-based organizations around the world offer support, food, housing, donations and medical services during the pandemic. Such solidarity is sorely needed as millions suffer the physical, economic and emotional toll of COVID-19.
eVesak – Vesak Celebrations Online
The Federation of Australian Buddhist Councils invites you to: eVesak ~ Coming Together in Kindness for the Buddha’s Birthday on Sunday 10 May 2020 from 4pm to 7pm Online ~ livestream https://www.facebook.com/buddhistcouncil/live/
My faith is my inner sanctum – not your body politic
Working with religion and religious actors of various hues and shapes is meant to be a humbling experience. At best, an opportunity to learn how those entities and bodies which have long predated secular establishments, served countless people, and continue to do so. At worst, it is meant to be a means of questioning assumptions about all worldviews, and the actions taken based on them.
Faith-based organizations can help the transition to a more sustainable post-COVID-19 world
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has noted that the coronavirus pandemic is more than a health crisis. It is a human crisis which is attacking societies at their core.
To tackle it, policymakers will need the support of scientists, experts, and society at large, including religious leaders, scholars, and communities.
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is partnering with others, within and outside the United Nations, to get people, including adherents of the world’s religions, to revisit our relationship with nature and rebuild a more environmentally responsible world.
New Zealand and Covid-19: Why religion will look different
Religion is in transformation – as it should be. The task of religion is to lead the devotee, the worshipful participant to Kingdom Come – in whatever name and form the religious participant aspires for. After Coronavirus, with the shut-down of places of worship, organised assembly in religion will face many changes. This article explores this experience from the purview of worship in New Zealand.
