Pray Together for Peace 2016
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Date(s) - 21/09/2016
All Day
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We invite people of faith to pray for Peace on International Day of Peace 2016, and perhaps to raise money for charities in Coventry related to Peace and/or Reconciliation.
Your prayers will be part of Coventry Day of Peace 2016, a programme run by Coventry United Nations Association and other organisations. Please take part and show the world that the citizens of Coventry really care about Peace and Reconciliation!
If you want us to list your activity on this website, please let us know as soon as possible what you will be doing and where.
If you wish, you can also use your prayer to raise money for our selected charities.The charities are shown on the Coventry Day of Peace 2016 page. Ask your sponsors to use this page to send us their donations.
If you have raised money by taking part in Pray for Peace 2016, please follow this link to pay in your sponsorship, or ask you sponsors to do so directly:
Thank you!
Events Planned
United Nations Secretary-General Candidates Interviews
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Israel: What Went Wrong?
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You call this a heatwave? You ain’t felt nothing yet!
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Tom Fletcher remarks on US humanitarian funding
On 14 May Tom Fletcher, the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator (OCHA), made the following remarks to the press in New York on US humanitarian funding. Thank you very much, Ambassador Mike Waltz [U.S. Representative to the … Continue reading →
UN OCHA Statement on Ebola Outbreak
On 22 May, the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator (OCHA), Tom Fletcher, issued the following statement on the current Ebola outbreak. We need to get ahead of this Ebola outbreak. Today, I am allocating up to $60 … Continue reading →
Ebola spreading in Africa because of cultural practices
In May an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus is occurring in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. The Bundibugyo species of Ebola involved is one for which there is no vaccine or specific treatment. Ebola only spreads … Continue reading →
Should Palestine Preside over the UN General Assembly?
The Palestinian Ambassador Riyad Mansour is a candidate to be vice president of the UN General Assembly. But should he be allowed to stand? The Trump administration thinks not. According to reports in the media a State Department cable has … Continue reading →
Europe warming twice as fast as global average
The European State of the Climate (ESOTC) 2025 report published on 29 April 2026 by Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) states that since the 1980s, Europe has been warming twice as fast as the global average, making it the fastest-warming … Continue reading →
Internet Governance Forum
What is Internet Governance? According to Wikipedia, Internet governance is the effort by governments, the private sector, civil society, and technical actors to develop and apply shared principles, norms, rules, and decision-making procedures that shape the evolution and use of … Continue reading →
What is the future of the UN?
Is the United Nations still fit for purpose? The video below shows the diplomatic editor at The Economist, Anton La Guardia, discussing the future of the UN with co-host of The Intelligence audio podcast Jason Palmer as the marked its … Continue reading →