Sentences with phrase «of cultures of peace»

The nurturing of cultures of Peace.

In response to growing cries «for retribution, retaliation and revenge,» a number of Quaker organizations issued a Call for Peace on September 29, «challenging those whose hearts and minds seem closed to the possibility of peaceful resolution,» and pleading for «people of goodwill the world over [to] commit to the building of a culture of peace.»

Since 1993, UNESCO has held several conferences addressing the role of religion in conflict situations and at the 1994 conference in Barcelona issued a «Declaration on the Role of Religion in the Promotion of a Culture of Peace».

«On the basis of deliberate policy, my government developed an atmosphere of peace and stability, in our country, and we remain strongly committed to guard the sustenance of this culture of peace; that's the envy of many nations, and we will defend it to the last person,» Jammeh said.

4.7 by 2030 ensure all learners acquire knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including among others through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship, and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture's contribution to sustainable development

Reference target 4.7: By 2030, ensure all learners acquire knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including among other through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship, and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture's contribution to sustainable development.

UNESCO must play an important leading role to bring about this new culture, which is the concrete expression of Culture of Peace.

«By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture's contribution to sustainable development,» the global plan for 2030 states.

Not exact matches

Unless it was meant for us as a new system to drop Republican systems for the Royalist systems that are taking place now that Jordan and Morocco both Royelists are planed to join GCC as one with a change to the name of the GCC since the Royalist empire will be extending to countries outer of the Arabian Gulf Countries... What ever it is all we need is freedom of rights, justice, peace, equality and to live in prosperity... Egypt is not in the heart of Egyptions only but as well in the heart of every Arabic nation, Egyptions were our teachers in our schools and Egypt was the university of our Yemeni students... Egypt was the source of islamic educations, Egypt was the face of all arts, books, papers, TV plays and movies to all of Arabian speaking countries... Egypt is our Arabian Icon so please please other nations are becoming larger and stronger in the area on your account as a living icon for the Arabian Unity what ever our faiths or beliefs are we are brothers in blood, culture and language, God Bless to All.Amen.

Or... you can put asside your prophecies of doom & gloom, praying and hoping for God to smite all the yellow, black & brown people who don't believe the way you do anyway, and attempt to make peace with your neighbors, not by converting them at swordpoint, but accepting them and learning about their cultures and traditions and give them as much respect as you want them to show you.

I and others of like mind criticized the drug culture and related antics as a self - indulgent distraction from the goals of racial justice and peace, and worried that the new enthusiasm for «ecological consciousness» was in fact a conservative ploy designed to turn the movement away from the cause of the poor.

The Pope is confident that, once this is achieved, it will be possible to cooperate in a productive way in the areas of culture and society, and for the promotion of justice and peace in society and throughout the world.»

The International Information fundamentally represents the dominance and penetration of the technocratic culture into the life of the peoples in the third World, either in the form of science and technology transfer, or in the form of economic development and coqercial advertisement, or in terms of the inculcation of military values such as national security doctrine and peace propagenda.

«Jesus took sides — he said he didn't come to bring peace but a sword,» said Vincent Miller, a Catholic theologian and author of «Consuming Religion: Christian Faith and Practice in Consumer Culture.»

Shirl Hoffman, author of «Good Game: Christianity and the Culture of Sport,» says Christianity teaches «peace, humility, putting others before yourself,» while athletes are often more willing to cheat, hurt their opponents or take credit for their accomplishments.

Previous chapters in the book have dealt with the relations of Christian ethics to the culture of our times in reference to family life, economic relations, race relations, political structures, and the problems of war and peace in the international scene.

Yet it is surely a sign of the impoverishment of common culture and the common good — and an index of the degree to which liberal order has succeeded in establishing itself as both — that we are virtually required to equate love of country with devotion to the animating philosophy of the regime rather than to, say, the tales of our youth, the lay of the land and the bend in the road, and «peace and quiet and good tilled earth.»

Finally, we must remember that although some of the Islamic people of the Arab and African countries have attained their independence, only after all of them have become free can they proceed to the next stage of security, peace, and prosperity which is so necessary for the growth of Islamic culture.

Laws that at one time helped accomplish equality and peace, at later times and in other cultures, become tools of hatred, greed, division, and strife.

The superficiality and materialism of culture and the noisiness and stress of the active life spurred many to seek peace and tranquillity.

Shared silence in peace and solidarity in the context of a jail is possibly the most subversive act of resistance to the jail's culture of terrorization and violence that one might devise.

Indeed, Böckenförde wholly neglects to give praise to that particular combination of democratic (or more properly, republican) polity, inventive, adaptive and mind - centered economy, and humanistic culture (of specifically Jewish - Christian, not merely Greek origin) that have brought the last three generations of Europeans the greatest internal peace, easy prosperity, and getmütlich ways of living in many, many centuries.

We live today in a culture of war, which has made it increasingly important that our religious traditions contribute to generating social change towards peace.

UNESCO has established an International Interreligious Advisory Committee and with the UN launched the year 2000 as «the International Year for a Culture of Peace.»

The myth of redemptive violence — the notion that we can kill our way to peace — is a powerful one, and I'm constantly amazed at how it sneaks into our culture, the Church, and even my own heart.

If the point of religion is to bring peace and guide a culture toward certain specific behaviors, primarily for order and the preservation of the good qualities of society, then how can one say that one religion is better than another or that a «religion-less» person who STILL acts the SAME way (i.e. does right unto their neighbors, lives according to the thing the bible suggests) but is more tolerant is not as high quality a citizen as another who is associated with a Major League Religious Team?

His peace stand stemmed from his conception of the church, and to him the church was a distinctive amalgam of religion and culture, best exemplified in America.

Let the positive word come first, so that the gospel may undercut the fears which cause men to harden their minds and hearts against any criticism; but then the word of judgment is needed to prevent all that is positive in the gospel from creating false peace of mind in personal life or complacency about our national culture.

Also note I use extremists or terrorists because most ppl of those faiths or cultures I mention above are moderate and peace loving ppl.

Missionaries, usually supported by a military guard, went beyond the borders of white occupation, persuaded the natives to settle down, and taught them the arts of peace and Spanish culture as well as the Christian faith.

He says that the Pope believes that such dialogue could lead to us cooperating «in a productive way in the areas of culture and society, and for the promotion of justice and peace in society and throughout the world.»

The culture of Pentecostal churches may be unique, but the substance of Pentecostal spirituality — wherein the lame are healed, and sons and daughters prophesy, and peace and justice come to the marginalized — is not for a sect.

The Ming dynasty may be called the golden age of Muslims in China, for long years of peace and prosperity brought a flowering of art and culture in which the Muslims participated.

As a minority group living in a hostile culture, members of the early Christian churches were in no position to identify the bestowal of God's grace and blessing with national peace and prosperity.

A converted church in a corrupt civilization withdraws to its upper rooms, into monasteries and conventicles; it issues forth from these in the aggressive evangelism of apostles, monks and friars, circuit riders and missionaries; it relaxes its rigorism as it discerns signs of repentance and faith; it enters into inevitable alliance with converted emperors and governors, philosophers and artists, merchants and entrepreneurs, and begins to live at peace in the culture they produce under the stimulus of their faith; when faith loses its force, as generation follows generation, discipline is relaxed, repentance grows formal, corruption enters with idolatry, and the church, tied to the culture which it sponsored, suffers corruption with it.

But my pacifism is uneasy because I don't know how it looks all the time, how best to live an ethic of life, peace and love in a culture of violence and war.

Our greatest contribution to the future lies in ensuring that our children grow to maturity in cultures of peace.

Often times, as in my case, the religious community is a substitue for our broken families of origin.Idolized leave it to beaver believers... what results, ineviable, is people do what people do... display their confusion and pathological leanings to miss the mark... Finally, after a slow painful death to my / our illusions, we can give up being perfect in favoure of a peace that passes all understanding and give a big jucicy kiss to the abusuridy of our naccasistic culture while finding ways to celebrate our ONENESS....

The Song of Roland features an archbishop who slays Saracens with gusto, a clear indication that the Church made its peace with the warrior culture of Charlemagne's day.

It is indispensable to the creation of the harmonious global culture needed to build peace, justice, sustainability and prosperity for all.

You put down a group of people who have used their influence to promote peace between people and cultures and countries and still consider yourself above them because you are irreligious?

This is much to be regretted, not for any reasons of personal ambition, which I abjure completely, but because in the cause of postpartisanship (if not postmodernism) I believe a participant from the Culture 11 group (may it rest in peace) would add immeasurably to the depth of the dialogue going on within the administration, mixing it up with the likes of Susan Rice and Samantha Power (reminding them there was a free election in Iraq on Saturday), or with Lawrence Summers (recalling to him, since he failed so conspicuously in stimulating the women at Harvard, how one might do better with the economy).

I can also understand why many Catholics (including, perhaps, Pope Francis) want to make their peace with the sexual revolution, putting «divisive» culture - war issues behind them so that they can go on with the work of the Gospel and so forth.

So many times our two cultures worked together in peace for the benfit of both, in addition to the wars of Jihads and Crusades, that we always seem to hear about so much more.

It was not to be found in the overtly public (dare I say American) ministry of marching for civil rights and peace, or in his commentaries and books on public culture; but rather it was the interpersonal, interior expeditions of a shared faith (a quintessential Canadian attribute born out of long, cold winters spent indoors).

A book I am reading now is called «Sea of Faith» and its about the interaction between Christian and Islamic culture in war and peace around the Mediteranean Sea from 600 to around 1700 I think.

Speaking last October to the International Congress of Military Ordinariates, Pope Benedict declared: «The Church is missionary by nature and her principal task is evangelization, which aims to proclaim and witness to Christ, and to promote his gospel of peace and love in every environment and every culture.»

In the Life and Work movement of the non-Catholic churches in their search for social justice and international peace (which is now part of the WCC) and in the Second Vatican Council of the Roman Church, Christian Ecumenism has given up the church's traditional pietist and negativist approaches to modernity and has been involved in the attempt to redefine the forces and values of secular culture within the framework of Christian anthropology.

It is unfortunate that a country of this stature, who rules the world, from the skies like a god, and lacks comprehensive leadership to deal with these pressing issues... where are the Presidents akin to our late leaders that took the initiative and got things done, America has become a cold, hostile place to live, We lack the sense of unity that made us what we are... There are hundreds of thousand unemployed, Why can't the government promote an agency akin to the peace corps, that utilizes the young folks sitting on their a $ $ and make them earn their unemployment check by working in this storm zone, to rehabilitate and get these folks back on their feet... it would promote a culture of selflessness and charity and would without a question cause a paradigm shift in the minds of our youth, This is what makes a nation great!

The Christian culture I found myself in couldn't give me peace about how other religions fit into the scheme of things, or how people of other faiths or non-faiths were also on a valid path.