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Interfaith
Leaders Celebrate the International Day of Peace
at the Colorado
State Capitol in Denver
Sunday, September
21, 2008
The Ambassadors
for Peace of Colorado partnered with the UNA-USA
Colorado Division, Musical Missions of Peace, Los
Lantzmun and Soul Fully You to organize a rally and
celebration in honor of the UN International Day of
Peace, September 21st. at the State Capitol in Denver.
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The program began with remarks from Don Bossart,
President of the UNA-USA Colorado Division. Don was
followed by a reading of an inspirational poem by Kim
Conrad, “Being For”. We then called up leaders
representing diverse faith traditions to offer prayers
for peace. This included Buddhist monks from the local
Thai Buddhist and Chinese Buddhist temples, a Baptist
minister, A Native American representative, and a Hindu
priest as well as ministers of other local churches.
Following the prayers we had remarks from UPF Sec.
General Peggy Yujiri who explained why UPF is a sponsor
of this event with the theme “One Global Family Under
God”. The program then moved on to present intercultural
performances. The audience was treated to a haunting
Middle Eastern melody performed by Cameron Powers and
Kristina Sophia, who regularly travel to Iraq and other
Middle Eastern countries to bring a message of peace
through music. We heard from Los Lantzmun, a
contemporary Jewish band and from the choir of the New
Jerusalem Missionary Baptist church. Beautiful dances
were preformed by young women of the local India
Association and by the Christina Yeh Chinese dance team.
The youth praise team of Rev. Calvin Kelly’s church also
performed a stunning dance to a song of praise.
We ended the event my releasing white balloons, each
with a message of peace attached, written by our
participants. We took a group picture standing in the
formation of a peace sign, each with a renewed
commitment to practice peace in our daily lives. |
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