RELIGIONS FOR PEACE lancia una campagna globale di solidarietà “Offer a Meal Movement”
Aprile 6th, 2014 by Luigi De Salvia
We are pleased today to announce the launching of Religion for Peace’s (RfP) “Offer a Meal Movement” – a global campaign in solidarity with poverty-stricken people around the world. The “Offer a Meal Movement” builds shared well-being and is based upon the gentle and mysterious power of small acts of compassion, love and prayer. These acts can help others in great need and also help transform the person who makes them. They can be practiced by anyone. Each religion has its own way of encouraging them. The heart of the movement is to skip a meal a couple of times a month in solidarity with – and prayer for – those suffering from hunger, extreme poverty or violent conflict. Participants registering on RfP International’s website (http://www.rfp.org) are provided with two choices so they can join the movement to address human suffering and build peace: * Donate the value of skipped meals to RfP International. If you donate to RfP, we will use 100 percent of your funds to reach those in need through our network of 92 national and regional Inter-Religious Councils (IRCs). Some of our IRCs are in the poorest countries in the world. The IRCs are effective because they engage volunteers in local churches, mosques, temples, gurdwaras, shrines and other religious community centers that are already assisting the needy in their communities. * Donate the value of skipped meals to your local charity We believe joining the Offer a Meal Movement is a modest, but genuine way of uniting prayer and action. I hope you will join me in the Offer a Meal Movement. The good you do will be an invitation for others to do the same. Acts of kindness, thankfully, are highly contagious.To join RfP’s Offer a Meal Movement, please visit here (http://www.religionsforpeaceinternational.org)
Dr. William Vendley
Secretary General