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  • Snapshots portraying the work of the Holdeen India Program, the United Nations Office, and the International Resources Office
    One of the Social Justice partners that UUA President Sinkford met with during his November 2008 Pilgrimage to Africa was the Coalition Against Water Privatization (CAWP). CAWP has led the grassroots struggle in South Africa to assure access to safe drinking water, especially in low-income...
    By Eric Cherry | March 31, 2009 | From Global Unitarian Universalism
  • Snapshots portraying the work of the Holdeen India Program, the United Nations Office, and the International Resources Office
    On March 6, 2009 the 31st Bishop of the Transylvanian Unitarian Church - Reverend Balint Benczedi Ferenc - was installed during a ceremony at the Unitarian Church in Kolozsvár. http://picasaweb.google.com/UUAInternationalResources/BishopBalintInsta… Balint Installation Photos by Rev. Molnar Lehel...
    By Eric Cherry | March 29, 2009 | From Global Unitarian Universalism
  • Snapshots portraying the work of the Holdeen India Program, the United Nations Office, and the International Resources Office
    This entry was written by Diana Sands, LGBT Program Associate at the Unitarian Universalist UN Office. From civil rights to human rights, what is at stake is humanity and dignity for all: the oppressed, their oppressors, and the spectators. Here I want to compare traditionally marginalized human...
    By Eric Cherry | March 25, 2009 | From Global Unitarian Universalism
  • Snapshots portraying the work of the Holdeen India Program, the United Nations Office, and the International Resources Office
    I often find myself wading through history’s blood-stained swamp of violence in search of fleeting sources of hope. This experience speaks more, I believe, to the way in which history is recorded than to the human condition itself. For the very act of canonizing authoritative perspectives in turn...
    By Eric Cherry | March 10, 2009 | From Global Unitarian Universalism
  • Snapshots portraying the work of the Holdeen India Program, the United Nations Office, and the International Resources Office
    Nearly 600 Unitarians, Unitarian Universalists, and progressive people of faith from approximately 20 countries gathered in Houston, Texas for the First International Convocation of UU Women from Thursday, February 26th through Sunday, March 1st. The theme of the Convocation was “Weaving Global...
    By Eric Cherry | March 4, 2009 | From Global Unitarian Universalism
  • Snapshots portraying the work of the Holdeen India Program, the United Nations Office, and the International Resources Office
    The second in a series of blog posts this week inspired by movies highlighted in Sunday's Oscars Awards ceremony. Today, Kathy Sreedhar, the director of the http://www.uua.org/aboutus/professionalstaff/advocacywitness/holdeenind… Holdeen India Program, talks about the movie, Slumdog Millionaire.
    By Eric Cherry | February 24, 2009 | From Global Unitarian Universalism
  • Snapshots portraying the work of the Holdeen India Program, the United Nations Office, and the International Resources Office
    Reprinted with permission from The Inquirer (The Voice of British and Irish Unitarians and Free Christians) The new building of the Chennai Unitarian Christian Church was opened on 25 January amid scenes of joyful celebration....
    By Eric Cherry | February 24, 2009 | From Global Unitarian Universalism
  • Snapshots portraying the work of the Holdeen India Program, the United Nations Office, and the International Resources Office
    The International Resources Office also put a "25 things about..." note on our CLFUU Church of the Philippines.6. The International Resources Office (IRO) contains a number of gifts from the Unitarian Union of North East India, including a small model of "Khasi Tools and Implements."7....
    By Eric Cherry | February 23, 2009 | From Global Unitarian Universalism
  • Snapshots portraying the work of the Holdeen India Program, the United Nations Office, and the International Resources Office
    … style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer;width: 243px;height: 158px" src="Dear Unitarian Friends, Australia is in a state of shock as the toll from devastation from the Victorian bush-fires slowly unfolds. It is expected that the death toll will be in excess of 200 with many...
    By Eric Cherry | February 11, 2009 | From Global Unitarian Universalism
  • Snapshots portraying the work of the Holdeen India Program, the United Nations Office, and the International Resources Office
    Stephen Spinder, an American professional photographer who has been living and working in Budapest, Hungary for the last twelve years, held a discussion and book-signing event at the In his recent publication entitled “Ten Years in Transylvania,” Spinder collects images of Hungarian villages in...
    By Eric Cherry | February 10, 2009 | From Global Unitarian Universalism
  • Snapshots portraying the work of the Holdeen India Program, the United Nations Office, and the International Resources Office
    The latest pervasive, must-have technology since the invention of the cell phone, Facebook is everywhere....
    By Eric Cherry | February 3, 2009 | From Global Unitarian Universalism
  • Snapshots portraying the work of the Holdeen India Program, the United Nations Office, and the International Resources Office
    Tsubaki Grand Shrine Scholarship Program The Tsubaki Grand Shrine Scholarship is available to Unitarian Universalist seminarians (in candidate status) attending non-UU theological Schools who have an interest in international and interfaith engagement. Scholarship recipients will be provided with...
    By Eric Cherry | January 13, 2009 | From Global Unitarian Universalism
  • Snapshots portraying the work of the Holdeen India Program, the United Nations Office, and the International Resources Office
    The Vice Bishop - Rev. Nagy László , Dean of the Marosvasarhely District and The Provost - Rev. István Kovács, Minister in Sepsiszentgyörgy...
    By Global Connections & Emerging Communities | December 17, 2008 | From Global Unitarian Universalism
  • Snapshots portraying the work of the Holdeen India Program, the United Nations Office, and the International Resources Office
    Eboo Patel is the Director of Interfaith Youth Corp and was the Starr King School’s President’s Lecturer at General Assembly 2009. On December 1st he posted his reflections on the attacks in Mumbai to the Washington Post's "On Faith" blog. My father's best childhood friend owns Joy Shoes in the...
    By Global Connections & Emerging Communities | December 8, 2008 | From Global Unitarian Universalism
  • Snapshots portraying the work of the Holdeen India Program, the United Nations Office, and the International Resources Office
    (cross-posted from President Sinkford's blog about his pilgrimage to Africa: uupilgrimage.blogspot.com...
    By Global Connections & Emerging Communities | December 1, 2008 | From Global Unitarian Universalism
  • Snapshots portraying the work of the Holdeen India Program, the United Nations Office, and the International Resources Office
    On November 4, 2008, Reverend William G. Sinkford, President of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA), will embark on a 19-day pilgrimage to visit six African countries: South Africa, Uganda, Kenya, Senegal, Ghana and Nigeria....
    By Global Connections & Emerging Communities | October 21, 2008 | From Global Unitarian Universalism
  • Snapshots portraying the work of the Holdeen India Program, the United Nations Office, and the International Resources Office
    On November 8, 2008, Reverend William G. Sinkford, President of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA), will begin a 15-day pilgrimage to visit six African countries: South Africa, Uganda, Kenya, Senegal, Ghana and Nigeria....
    By Global Connections & Emerging Communities | October 9, 2008 | From Global Unitarian Universalism
  • Snapshots portraying the work of the Holdeen India Program, the United Nations Office, and the International Resources Office
    For two months during the summer of 2008, Laney Ohmans, a Unitarian Universalist from Unity Church-Unitarian in St. Paul, MN, offered English language instruction at the Eklavya School for Katkari Girls in the Maharashtra region of India. The Eklavya School was founded by two of the closeset...
    By Global Connections & Emerging Communities | October 8, 2008 | From Global Unitarian Universalism
  • Snapshots portraying the work of the Holdeen India Program, the United Nations Office, and the International Resources Office
    Bruce Knotts, Executive Director of the Unitarian Universalist United Nations Office (UU-UNO), recently attended the United Nation's 60th anniversary conference - "Human Rights for All: the Universal Declaration at 60" at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France. In preparing for the conference and...
    By Global Connections & Emerging Communities | September 23, 2008 | From Global Unitarian Universalism
  • Snapshots portraying the work of the Holdeen India Program, the United Nations Office, and the International Resources Office
    iPhones. MySpace. Viral marketing. Cell phones. No matter where we go, we are as connected as we want to be (and then some) to current technology, and through this internet medium, to one another. In many ways an informational smorgasbord, the internet experience is what we make of it; whether...
    By Global Connections & Emerging Communities | September 3, 2008 | From Global Unitarian Universalism