{"id":2030,"date":"2013-02-15T18:11:43","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T22:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=2030"},"modified":"2013-02-15T18:15:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T22:15:34","slug":"p-interfaith-ceremony-at-united-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=2030","title":{"rendered":"Interfaith ceremony at United Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A choir of singers from\u00c2\u00a0<i>Sri Chinmoy: The Peace Meditation at the United Nations<\/i> gave the opening performance at a special event called &#8216;United for a Culture of Peace through Interfaith Harmony&#8217; which took place at the UN in New York. Guest speakers included the President of the General Assembly H.E. Mr. Vuk Jeremi\u00c4\u2021, Deputy Secretary-General H.E. Amb. Jan Eliasson, and a host of UN diplomats, ambassadors, and interfaith leaders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2031 aligncenter\" alt=\"unsingers\" src=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/unsingers.jpg\" width=\"532\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/unsingers.jpg 532w, https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/unsingers-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/unsingers-500x344.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 532px) 85vw, 532px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In 1970, then Secretary-General U Thant invited Sri Chinmoy to conduct twice-weekly non-denominational peace meditations for delegates and staff at the United Nations. The singers included current and past UN workers, and have been performing Sri Chinmoy&#8217;s songs for many years at the United Nations and around the world.<br \/>\n<object id=\"flashObj\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\"><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=2165451739001&amp;linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwebtv.un.org%2Fmeetings-events%2Fwatch%2Funited-for-a-culture-of-peace-through-interfaith-harmony%2F2165451739001&amp;playerID=1613589742001&amp;playerKey=AQ~~,AAABPSuWdxE~,UHaNXUUB06UyR-VN7Xc3JTqRSSQh-p7W&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true\" \/><param name=\"base\" value=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" \/><param name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1&amp;isUI=1\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"videoId=2165451739001&amp;linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwebtv.un.org%2Fmeetings-events%2Fwatch%2Funited-for-a-culture-of-peace-through-interfaith-harmony%2F2165451739001&amp;playerID=1613589742001&amp;playerKey=AQ~~,AAABPSuWdxE~,UHaNXUUB06UyR-VN7Xc3JTqRSSQh-p7W&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"swliveconnect\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"pluginspage\" value=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\" \/><embed id=\"flashObj\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1&amp;isUI=1\" flashVars=\"videoId=2165451739001&amp;linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwebtv.un.org%2Fmeetings-events%2Fwatch%2Funited-for-a-culture-of-peace-through-interfaith-harmony%2F2165451739001&amp;playerID=1613589742001&amp;playerKey=AQ~~,AAABPSuWdxE~,UHaNXUUB06UyR-VN7Xc3JTqRSSQh-p7W&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true\" base=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" swLiveConnect=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" flashvars=\"videoId=2165451739001&amp;linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwebtv.un.org%2Fmeetings-events%2Fwatch%2Funited-for-a-culture-of-peace-through-interfaith-harmony%2F2165451739001&amp;playerID=1613589742001&amp;playerKey=AQ~~,AAABPSuWdxE~,UHaNXUUB06UyR-VN7Xc3JTqRSSQh-p7W&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" swliveconnect=\"true\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The event also included videos of World Interfaith Harmony week celebrations around the world, a symphony of peace prayers, and a World Peace Flag ceremony.<\/p>\n<h4>Further reading:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/unitedforacultureofpeace.info\/\">United for a Culture of Peace<\/a> &#8211; official site<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/webtv.un.org\/meetings-events\/watch\/united-for-a-culture-of-peace-through-interfaith-harmony\/2165451739001\">Webcast<\/a> on UN TV<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A choir of singers from\u00c2\u00a0Sri Chinmoy: The Peace Meditation at the United Nations gave the opening performance at a special event called &#8216;United for a Culture of Peace through Interfaith Harmony&#8217; which took place at the UN in New York. Guest speakers included the President of the General Assembly H.E. Mr. Vuk Jeremi\u00c4\u2021, Deputy Secretary-General &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=2030\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Interfaith ceremony at United Nations&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2030"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2035,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions\/2035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}