Religions for Peace USA

RFPUSA Board Treasurer James Lynch (RKK) offered a touching prayer at the Prayer Vigil hosted by Mayor of NYC in remembrance of victims of Buffalo mass shooting.

Below is a letter by faith leaders across the African continent addressed to world governments, urging heads of state to ensure universal access to Covid-19 vaccines, tests, and treatments. https://peoplesvaccine.org//co/faith-leaders-covid-summit/

National Interfaith Prayer Service for Peace and Justice 3rd Annual National Day of Prayer Thursday, May 5, 2022

Program for today's National Interfaith Prayer Service for Peace and Justice is below. Please register at https://us02web.zoom.us//register/WN_k2kzvD_4TGmcpSZx2aWf1w

Program for today's National Interfaith Prayer Service for Peace and Justice is below. Please register at https://us02web.zoom.us//register/WN_k2kzvD_4TGmcpSZx2aWf1w

Religions for Peace USA will hold an online ceremony for the third year in a row, focusing on peace and justice after previously praying about COVID-19 and systemic discrimination. On Thursday at 2 p.m. Eastern, leaders of Orthodox Christian, Jewish and Buddhist faiths will be among those offering prayers for Ukraine as the Russian war against the country continues. While the world focuses its attention on the crisis in Ukraine as it should, we must not forget the other threats to our common humanity such as nuclear weapons, mistreatment of refugees, racism, climate change and others, said Tarunjit Singh Butalia, the executive director of the interreligious organization. On this National Day of Prayer, it is time for us to pray with our head, heart and hands to promote justice so peace can prevail. - RNS full article is below

Please join us on May 5 at 2pm ET for 3rdAnnual National Day of Prayer. To register, click https://us02web.zoom.us//register/WN_k2kzvD_4TGmcpSZx2aWf1w

RFPUSA is one of the signatories to this letter calling for courageous, creative actions of nonviolence in Ukraine

CNN Opinion: Why the world fails on the 'Never again' pledge

RFPUSA partnered with OMNIA to offer a workshop on "Dismantling Supremacies, Building Interfaith Peacemaker Teams" on June 24, 2021. Recording of event is below.

Please join us tomorrow here on facebook live for this important conversation or join by Zoom by registering at https://us02web.zoom.us//register/WN_L1PpEa20SJajgKd9XzIljA

FEZANA, member organization of RFPUSA, is establishing a Chair on Zoroastrian studies at University of Toronto. Congratulations!!!

Uprooting Racism & Reimagine Policing Thursday, June 24th at 12-1 PM Eastern

We are thrilled to welcome Soka Gakkai International - USA as the newest member organization of Religions for Peace USA! https://www.sgi-usa.org/

Religions for Peace USA participated in this prayer vigil for police transformation at The Ohio Statehouse. Our Executive Director is quoted in the article as below: A Sikh representative at the rally had harsh words for local police, pointing to the banner of officer-involved homicides and then the Ohio Statehouse. "It's a wall of shame for all of us and the people who sit in there," said Tarunjit Singh Butalia, executive director of Religions for Peace USA.... "Police have dehumanized African Americans as being something less than human. Every African American knows this." Reform doesn't work, Butalia said, creating "more power and more use of force." "The laws of the state have to change."