News Desk – Page 2

June 30, 2017

Insight article – Peace Mala International Inter-Faith Liturgy for World Peace

20th July 2017 – Llandaff Cathedral, Wales UK Published in Insight, the Journal of The Theosophical Society in England – June 2017 The Swansea based multi award winning Peace Mala educational project for global citizenship is organising the above event on 20th July in response to the terrorist attacks across the world. Pam Evans (Founder…

June 1, 2017

Cardiff Crescent Centre Opens

Muslim News Report – May 26, 2017 – by Nadine Osman The launch event was attended by a mixture of organisations, including some local mosque and church representatives, as well as Muslim converts, their families and wider Muslim community supporters. Introducing the speakers, WMCF Trustee, Owain Williams, called on members of faith and non-faith based…

July 25, 2016

Keighley School given an award-winning peace project

ITV report – July 19, 2016 A school in West Yorkshire has become the first in the region to be accredited with an award-winning peace project. Pupils at Worth Valley Primary School in Keighley took part in a special assembly this morning to celebrate their work with Peace Mala. Balloons were released as shown in…

July 20, 2016

Peace Mala win for pupils

South Wales Evening Post – Saturday July 18, 2016 Respecting others is central to the Peace Mala project – as pupils at Cadle Primary well know. The youngsters at the school have been embracing the project, which promotes respect and understanding between faiths around the world, and after years of studying and engaging with its…

April 5, 2016

Esoterica : Philosophy – Science – Spirituality

The Journal of the Foundation for Theosophical Studies – Spring 2016 Vol 7 No.1 Peace Mala : A Symbolic Journey – Pam Evans The word ‘mala’ is Sanskrit and means ‘garland of flowers’. In the East a mala is a string of beads used in meditation or prayer and each bead or ‘flower’ focuses on…

January 28, 2016

Worth Valley Primary School pupils remember murder victim Riley Turner, four

Telegraph & Argus – Thursday, January 28, 2016 – Alistair Shand A Keighley school has staged a superhero day to celebrate the life of a pupil who was murdered. Staff and youngsters at Worth Valley Primary took part in activities in memory of four-year-old Riley Turner who was killed three years ago. “We were proud…

November 29, 2015

Changing Worlds Conference Vienna

with Erin Kavanagh From 19th-21st November 2015, Erin Kavanagh, our official Earth Religion Representative and a Peace Mala Ambassador, attended the University of Vienna for a conference on ‘Changing Worlds’. The international delegates were invited to engage science and technology with art, academia and activism with a dominant theme of inclusivity and global citizenship. Erin…

November 25, 2015

Peace Mala Symbolic Dove of Peace arrives in Japan

Yozen (Jan van der Elsen) and Kakua (Agnes van der Elsen), teachers at the Gloucester Shingon Buddhist Centre attended the launch ceremony for the Symbolic Doves of Peace at Peace Mala HQ on 30th April 2015. They announced that they would be leaving for Japan in the late summer or early autumn for two years…

October 5, 2015

Peace Mala Symbolic Doves of Peace

article in The Bay magazine, October 2015 Peace Mala released 14 small symbolic doves of peace made from wood painted in the Peace Mala colours and each carrying a Peace Mala bracelet (along with other items) during a ceremony that took place in the Peace Mala peace garden on 30th April 2015. The ceremony was…

October 1, 2015

Bracken Bank schoolchildren launch peace initiative with rainbow balloons

article in the Keighley News by David Knights – October 1, 2015 The rainbow children of Worth Valley Primary School are pumped up about their new peace campaign. They launched seven balloons into the sky, each with a colour of the rainbow, to celebrate World Peace Day. Each balloon, which had an individual peace message,…