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October 6, 2011
At its 5th edition this year, the Global Alliance Summit for Ministries and Departments of Peace aimed to achieve the following:
Powerful inspiration, vision and hope for a peaceful world and the role of ministries and departments of peace in achieving it.
An understanding of Ubuntu philosophy as a guiding principle for a way of life in African communities and how it relates to peace.
Increased ability to develop a national movement for infrastructures for peace (I4Ps), as provided by...
October 5, 2011
On the 11th of September 2011, more than 400 people from all over Switzerland, who recognize the great need for Consciousness Change, came together at the Bundesplatz in Bern to stand together “For a New World !”
Für Eine Neue Welt-Bewusst Sein Im Wandel
The Event, which was announced on the TV News that same night, combined Meditation, Music and Speakers from different fields like Economy, Art, Science, Culture, NGO and Spirituality. The speakers shared from their own experience their...
September 29, 2011
In the recent M.A.D (Making A Difference) Program, held in Batangas, Philippines, Mark Conrad and Christian Marx (COE Chapter Leaders), invited 40 children, 13 youth Volunteers from different regions and the entire community to participate in the M.A.D activities and help renovate and paint an entire school!
Some of the M.A.D activities included:
Team Building
Promotion of the 10 M.A.D. commitments to Inspire children to make a difference in their own litlle ways
Youth...
September 7, 2011
On the 20th of August 2011, Karoline Buys (COE’s International Program Director) and Harriet Nettles crossed the dusty border from Lomé, Togo to Ghana and continued to the University of Legon in Accra, the site of two previous COE / Apeadu Peace Center gatherings. Sammy Fianko and Lawrence Yealue organized a group of young people to join us in the lovely University gardens for a program on spirituality into action (Reflect, connect and act) and lunch. After Karoline led a meditation, the...
September 7, 2011
Lucy Thomas (co-founder of COE Scotland) has just secured a £10,000 funding for an anti-bullying project called “Belong-Longing to Be ME”. This will allow COE Scotland to partner with the local High School and to involve pupils in this anti-bullying project which has its heart and intentions fully rooted in Children of the Earth, and is really the first big step out to the local community since becoming established earlier this year. This funded project is the first step in the work of COE...
September 3, 2011
Karoline Buys (COE International Program Director) and Harriett Nettles were invited by Samuel Ayivi, the COE Hub leader in Togo, West Africa, to join a youth camp in the beautiful mountain setting of Danyi Djedrame in August 2011. Samuel and many of the participants and COE Hub members are part of a musical group that inspire their audiences to grow closer to the Divine. Thirty young people gathered in a lovely mansion in a quiet little village called Dzedramé where no traffic disturbed...
August 24, 2011
Baia Mare, Romania was the site of an inspiring gathering for youth and spirituality working to build actions for peace in Europe. 25 youth aged between 10 and 35 years and 7 elders attended. They were coming from Romania, Hungary, Germany, United Kingdom, Switzerland and the United States of America from 6 to 12 August at the Petrusca Villa in Apa Nord to establish a community beyond barriers of nationality, ethnicity, culture, age, sex, religion or otherwise and open a dialogue about how we...
August 9, 2011
We (Dr. Nina Meyerhof, Marco Steiger and Rodica Pop) met the 90 year old Justinian Chira, Archbishop of Maramures and Satu Mare, in Romania while participating in the Youth Gathering "European Consciousness Through Peace Actions". The Archbishop has fire in his eyes, a full knowledge of the Bible and a truly open heart that does not stand with rules, but asks with passion to bring new life into the meaning of LOVE ONE ANOTHER and honor the YOUNG. He sees COE's work as the spark of fire needed...
August 3, 2011
Naturally Diane Williams, Deborah Moldow and…all of SOSF and the Evolutionary Leaders had no idea really what we were walking into. In fact, Diane DeTerra of our Board was in France and joined us. This was a journey into the unknown yet knowing it would be significant. Time quickly informed us that Maitreyi Amma with Shri Tathata are symbolically closely associated with Aurobindo and the Mother. A similar relationship was evolving. Maitreyi Amma had invited guests plus seekers and yogic...
July 28, 2011
Beginning the TREK to the Middle East to Learn and Serve.
Our Journey to Jordan----- Children of the Earth dedicates itself to youth forming a movement for positive change and becoming the voice of evolving conscious unity of humanity.
Children of the Earth Board members, Diane DeTerra and Patrick McCollum and I (Nina Meyerhof ) travelled to Jordan to lead a workshop with Common Bond Institute on Transforming Conflict: Sharing tools for Cross-Cultural Dialogue. Our workshops addressed Youth as...