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URI's Father Channan attends national harmony celebration and meets with President of Pakistan

Asia
Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue

In August 2011, 2,000 members of Muslim, Christian, Hindu and Sikh and Buddhist communities gathered at Mr. Asif Ali Zardari, the President of Pakistan’s House in Islamabad to celebrate National Harmony. The ceremony included the reading of a speech by Muhammad Ali Jinnah, regarded as the Father of Pakistan, in which he said that all citizens should be equal and there should be no discrimination on the basis of religion—a dream that is still not realized in Pakistan. The President also paid tribute to the Christian political leadership who worked with Ali Jinnah and voted in favor of Pakistan. There was also a beautiful performance by high school children singing national songs.

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Ektaan CC opens new computer training center at local Mosque

Asia
Education
Health and Social Services
Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue
Media

Dear Friends,

Namaste and greetings of peace from India. Here are some pictures of another computer center which opened a few weeks ago with the help of the members from the local Mosque. This is the first time in the area that a computer training program has been run by URI inside the Mosque premises. URI member Md. Sarfaraz oversees the project. We expect to run a complete educational program and engage the larger community, especially targeting children from different communities to attend classes at the center. This will allow children from other communities to an opportunity to attend the Mosque and become familiar with other religions through engagement and open interaction with other children. This initiative had been planned for a long time. So it’s now being born, we are moving forward with much concrete steps to develop the plan further for greater impact.

Biswadeb Chakraborty
Ektaan CC

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Indian "Independence Day" observed

Asia
Community Building
Youth

Ektaan Cooperation Circle organized a soccer tournament among its members, affiliated groups and members from other organization, to observe the Indian Independence day on the 15th August. Members from Sikh, Muslim, Hindu, seniors and Youngsters played together to celebrate this day.

Raksha Bandhan ( Tie a ribbon for protection) observed

Asia
Community Building
Indigenous Peoples

On the 13 th of August, here in the Eastern zone in India we observed the very special day call "Raksha Bandhan", it is a very significant day all over the country especially in Bengal when Tagore started this ritual at the time of crisis and tension among Muslin and Hindu. We have visited more than 500 people in 4 groups at various places to tie a ribbon which sysbolizes the fiendship and relationship to protect each other from any obstacles.

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Indian Dalit Ecumenical Federation CC receives Best CC of the Year Award for URI-South India sub-region

Asia
Community Building
Environment

URI-South India proudly announces that the Indian Dalit Ecumenical CC won the Best CC of the Year award in July 2011. The CC is one of 53 prominent CCs in URI's South India Region. The word ‘dalit’ stands for aborigines. The main thrust of this unit is to develop the conditional of aboriginal people, especially the youth. Many of their programs are related to capacity building.