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— The Shenandoah District of the Church of the Brethren<\/strong> held its disaster ministries auction and sale this weekend. Auction information can be found at https:\/\/shencob.org\/shenandoah-district-disaster-auction<\/a> and www.facebook.com\/ShenandoahDistrictBrethrenAuction<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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— \u201cCome worship at the oldest unaltered Brethren meetinghouse in America!\u201d<\/strong> said an invitation from Atlantic Northeast District. The Pricetown Homecoming will be held June 14 at 2:30 p.m. (Eastern time) and a Vespers Hymn Sing service also is planned for July 19. The meetinghouse is in Fleetwood, Pa.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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— Intercultural Ministries director Founa A. Badet<\/strong> was honored with a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition from congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz in a ceremony held at Chateau Mar Golf Resort in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Badet received the recognition for her work to serve the local community and involvement in a project of Heavenly Hope Community Service Inc. to help send 5,000 children to school in Haiti, according to a Facebook post.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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— In another Facebook post (at left),<\/strong> Brethren Press announced an honor received recently by publisher Wendy McFadden<\/strong>. She is the longterm publisher and executive director of both Brethren Press and Communications for the Church of the Brethren, and has announced her retirement as of the end of July.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

— \u201cUp to one million plant and animal species are on course for extinction,<\/strong> most of it caused by human activity,\u201d said an announcement of a webinar on biodiversity offered by the World Council of Churches. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The WCC \u201cis bringing together online voices from five of the world\u2019s major faith traditions to ask a question that is becoming harder to avoid: can Orthodox, S\u00e1mi, Buddhist, Islamic, and Hindu conviction become a living force for biodiversity justice? \u2026 This year\u2019s International Day for Biological Diversity theme \u2013 \u2018Acting locally for global impact\u2019 \u2013 anchors the session\u2019s logic: that what faith communities do in their own contexts is not separate from the global effort to halt biodiversity collapse.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speakers include Lovisa Mienna Sj\u00f6berg, VID Specialized University; Kevin Maina, Church of Kenya; Alexandra Masako Goossens-Ishii, Soka Gakkai International; Mathew Koshy Punnackadu, WCC commissioner for Climate Justice and Sustainable Development; Seyed Masoud Noori, Imam Mahdi Association of Marjaeya; Jessica Hetherington, United Church of Canada; and Gopal Patel, FutureFaith. Louk Andrianos, WCC consultant for Care for Creation, Sustainability, and Climate Justice, will coordinate the session. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Titled \u201cFrom Faith to Action: Interreligious Call for Biodiversity Justice,\u201d <\/strong>the webinar is scheduled for May 22 from 9 to 10 a.m. (Eastern time). Register at https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_4Ltno_xKQJS-TPCPKy9HCg#\/registration<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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