On Monday, December 20 at 19:30 GMT:
After a bruising 2020 that noticed the resolve of communities world wide put to the check, many individuals hoped this 12 months could be considerably brighter.
However 2021 introduced a wealth of recent challenges. COVID-19 continued its lethal and unrelenting march world wide, with the pandemic exacerbating social and financial inequalities and nations within the international south struggling to entry and administer vaccines to weak populations. The fast-emerging Omicron variant already appears set to outline 2022.
Democracy in america suffered an almost deadly blow in January as supporters of defeated presidential incumbent Donald Trump attacked the US Capitol. 1000’s of individuals in nations together with Syria, Yemen and Ethiopia died in wars which are grinding on with out respite and that obtain solely scant international media protection. And the ever-worsening local weather emergency affected hundreds of thousands extra folks world wide – and disproportionately so in growing nations which have emitted the least greenhouse gases.
Religion leaders are sometimes on the frontline in offering important religious and emotional help and steering in occasions of disaster. And there’s proof {that a} rising variety of persons are discovering solace in non secular perception. A examine carried out in summer time 2020 discovered religion convictions had strengthened amongst practically three-in-ten People in the course of the first ravages of the coronavirus pandemic.
On this episode of The Stream, we’ll be joined by three religion leaders to speak about offering consolation and solace to communities in occasions of continuous uncertainty.
On this episode of The Stream, we’re joined by:
Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe, @Sister_Rosemary
Supervisor and trainer, St Monica’s convent
Maggie Siddiqi, @MaggieM_S
Senior Director, Faith and Religion, American Progress
americanprogress.org/crew/religion
Sunita Viswanath, @SunitaSunitaV
Co-founder, Hindus for Human Rights and Co-founder, Sadhana
sadhana.org