Azra Jafari has won respect in her community as she fights to improve lives and change attitudes towards wom The Guardian, Sunday 24 February 2013 18.36 GMT When Azra Jafari became mayor of Nili, she knew that the impoverished and remote Afghan town desperately needed roads and investment. She was aware she would be living in […]

Every summer, a group of Israeli women organise beach trips for Palestinian kids from towns and villages across the West Bank. For most children, it is their first time to visit the beach and swim in the dark blue Mediterranean waters. Back home, some families can see the sea from their balconies, but cannot go […]

Many couples crumble under the weight of the loss – the marriages of parents who have lost children are, tragically, more likely to end in divorce. But 10 years on from Christopher’s death, Ray and Vi have not only let go of their anger – but in an extraordinary show of compassion, they have managed […]

Amy Grant’s Story Of Her Parents’ Dementia And The Last Lesson They Taught Her Posted: 01/24/2013 10:28 am My dad loved to sing and loved any meal that brought our family together. He loved boats and the beach and being outdoors. He loved God, and his prayers were filled with gratitude. He taught me how […]

What would you do? Being A Good Neighbour

An Imam, accompanied by hundreds of Muslims, visits a church in Egypt to express their solidarity with Christians. Watch what happens… Imam Goes To Church In Egypt

Associated Press/Victor R. Caivano – President Cristina Fernandez, right, applauds as Susana Trimarco, left, lifts a human rights prize given by the president during a rally to mark the 29th anniversary of …more By EMILY SCHMALL | Associated Press – Tue, Dec 11, 2012  LA PLATA, Argentina (AP) — Susana Trimarco was a housewife who fussed over her family and paid scant attention to […]

Faith leaders pray at scene of bomb blast in Kenya 27 Nov 2012 Alan Channer Seven people were killed by a bomb that tore through a bus in the Nairobi suburb of Eastleigh on Sunday 18 November. Imam Muhammad Ashafa training faith leaders in Nairobi At the time of the explosion, Imam Muhammad Ashafa and […]

Jose Mujica: The world’s ‘poorest’ president By Vladimir HernandezBBC Mundo, Montevideo It’s a common grumble that politicians’ lifestyles are far removed from those of their electorate. Not so in Uruguay. Meet the president – who lives on a ramshackle farm and gives away most of his pay. Laundry is strung outside the house. The water […]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malala_Yousafzai Malala Yousafzai ( born 12 July 1997)[2][3] is a school student from the town of Mingora in Swat District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. She is known for her education and women’s rights activism in the Swat Valley, where the Taliban has at times banned girls from attending school.[4][3] In early 2009, at the age […]

As surely as you are reading this, you will have recently read about some shocking act of violence. Somewhere in the world there will be a terrorist bombing, a senseless murder, a bloody insurrection. It’s impossible to learn about these catastrophes without thinking, “What is the world coming to?” But a better question may be, […]

For more than 30 years, Walter Wink preached about the dangers of violence and unchecked powers in our world. He influenced countless men and women. Simply mentioning his name in a community—and seeing what response one gets—signals a lot about the culture of peacemaking in that community. Know Wink’s work? Then, this is a group […]