{"id":933,"date":"2010-12-06T15:04:39","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T19:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=933"},"modified":"2011-10-08T05:38:37","modified_gmt":"2011-10-08T09:38:37","slug":"inspiration-from-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=933","title":{"rendered":"Inspiration from Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, the World Harmony Run passed through some of the most beautiful landmarks in South Africa, and helped to unite many people in working towards a more harmonious and positive future.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_934\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-934\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sa-victoria-falls.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-934 \" title=\"sa-victoria-falls\" src=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sa-victoria-falls.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sa-victoria-falls.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sa-victoria-falls-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-934\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of World Harmony Run Team by Victoria Falls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldharmonyrun.org\/zimbabwe\/news\/2010\/1031\">see more at Zimbabwe<\/a> &#8211; Victoria Falls<\/p>\n<p>The World Harmony Run, was founded by Sri Chinmoy, as an initiative to encourage world peace and friendship amongst the different peoples of the world.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative has been supported by African leaders such as Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_935\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-935\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/nelson_mandela-torch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-935\" title=\"nelson_mandela-torch\" src=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/nelson_mandela-torch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"370\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/nelson_mandela-torch.jpg 370w, https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/nelson_mandela-torch-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 370px) 85vw, 370px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-935\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nelson Mandela and Garcia Mandela with Sri Chinmoy, 1998<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;My Brother in peace, we acknowledge the tremendous contribution which you and your peace movement are making to promote global peace.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; Nelson Mandela <sup class='footnote'><a href='#fn-933-1' id='fnref-933-1' onclick='return fdfootnote_show(933)'>1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I am happy to support your Peace Run for justice, peace and reconciliation. The world must know that God wants us to live amicably as brothers and sisters, members of one family, the human family, God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s family.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; Desmond Tutu <sup class='footnote'><a href='#fn-933-2' id='fnref-933-2' onclick='return fdfootnote_show(933)'>2<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sa-botswana1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-938\" title=\"sa-botswana\" src=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sa-botswana1.jpg\" alt=\"sa\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sa-botswana1.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sa-botswana1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Children hold the Torch on a recent visit of Run, through South Africa.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The absence of war is not and cannot be the real peace. Real peace is  the unmistakable establishment of celestial harmony and universal love.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; Sri Chinmoy (Founder of World Harmony Run) <sup class='footnote'><a href='#fn-933-3' id='fnref-933-3' onclick='return fdfootnote_show(933)'>3<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/world-harmony-run\/world-harmony-run-australasia\/\">World Harmony Run Australasia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldharmonyrun.org\/\">World Harmony Run<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class='footnotes' id='footnotes-933'>\n<div class='footnotedivider'><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li id='fn-933-1'> World Harmony Run &#8211; Torch Relay for Peace and Harmony p.118. New York: Agni Press, 2010 <span class='footnotereverse'><a href='#fnref-933-1'>&#8617;<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li id='fn-933-2'> World Harmony Run &#8211; Torch Relay for Peace and Harmony p.118. New York: Agni Press, 2010 and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldharmonyrun.org\/sa\/friends\/religious\/tutu\">World Harmony Run, S.A<\/a>. <span class='footnotereverse'><a href='#fnref-933-2'>&#8617;<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li id='fn-933-3'> Sri Chinmoy. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.srichinmoylibrary.com\/books\/0763\/1\/6\"><em>Perez de Cuellar: Immortality&#8217;s Rainbow-Peace<\/em><\/a>, New York, Agni Press, 1989 <span class='footnotereverse'><a href='#fnref-933-3'>&#8617;<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, the World Harmony Run passed through some of the most beautiful landmarks in South Africa, and helped to unite many people in working towards a more harmonious and positive future. see more at Zimbabwe &#8211; Victoria Falls The World Harmony Run, was founded by Sri Chinmoy, as an initiative to encourage world &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=933\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Inspiration from Africa&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1274,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions\/1274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}