“I had a professor once who used to say there are two things you should read every day: the Bible and the New York Times. His thinking was, if you want to understand human beings, what makes us tick, what our strengths, weaknesses, values, yearnings, wishes, sense of reality is all about, there’s nothing more […]

Why Ethics Education is important for promoting interfaith learning and dialogue Ethics education promotes interfaith learning and dialogue in many direct and indirect ways. Perhaps most importantly, because the content of ethics has so much to do with individual or group understanding of responsibilities to and relationships with other people, ethics education encourages our children

I strongly believe that children have an innate potential for spiritually. We need to listen carefully to children sharing their spirituality. As adults it is easy to believe that we’re the ones teaching children and youth spirituality in the same way we would teach them how to behave in the street to avoid being run

I was witness to a ‘community food bank’, a very creative initiative that Arun, a child from one of our service villages initiated a few years ago. The trigger, ‘a testimony of hunger’, that formed part of the ethics education workshop he had participated in. He was honoured at the annual Coimbatore Peace Festival for

Hinduism is a very ancient religion believed to be thousands of years old. It has no particular founder nor it is dependent upon any specific book. It is as mysteriously complex on the one hand and as simple as the rays of the sun on the other hand. Tracing its origin is as impossible as

Michel Schlesinger graduated as bachelor of law at the Law School of the University of São Paulo (USP) in 1999. He carried out his rabbinical studies and took his master degree in Jerusalem, Israel, at the Schechter Institute (2005). In the United States of America, he worked in a Jewish camp, the Ramah Camp of

There can be no doubt that the family is the most important moral institution in Islam. From the Islamic perspective, maintaining strong and healthy family bonds not only draws one closer to God, the Most High, but is the pathway for success and salvation in this world and the hereafter.

In the fiscal year 2014-2015 Arigatou International’s Ending Child Poverty Initiative will engage in an income-generating programme titled TRANSFORM. The programme aims at empowering women who are caregivers of vulnerable and orphaned children.

Bishop Kilaini obtained his MA in Theology from Urban University and his Doctorate in Church History from the Gregorian University in Rome. He was the Secretary General of the Tanzania Catholic Church for 10 years. He is active in social and interreligious organizations like the Global Network of Religions for Children, Amnesty International, World Conference

Family! What kind of images and memories bring about the word “family” in the minds of each person? Perhaps many and very diverse. Througout the years the task to take care of new generations has been assigned to the family and it is in this context that the first memories and experiences of love or