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interfaith conversation. all denominations are welcome. you look of an engine induced lockdown. we saw that many people use that as an opportunity to reconnect with god and to drive is bridging hope or resilience from the videos of your studies. when scholars like me now is that it can be a tremendously positive coping mechanism. despite evidence that showing that there may be a decline in church attendance or denominational installation, we're 2021 seems to be reminding us is that it's still a very important coping mechanism for individuals who have experienced watson trauma. when i look at the fragmentation that's often present in various political persuasions or different aspects of our society, i see that the only way forward in division is low. and so my recommendation is to

say, sacrificial love is the way forward so that we can demonstrate the eternal worth found and others as we move in to 2020. so how has your face guided you in 2021? this is a conversation that is open to all of our view is if you're on youtube, especially you can comment right here in the comic sexual be part of asha and talk to al. guess let's meet your panel. hello, sister raised me. hello maggie. hello, cynita. thank you to have all 3 of you here, sister raised me. please introduce yourself to ass stream audience. i am a rosemary and i'm looking in northern uganda and it all these years. but 2021 has being the most extraordinary year for me and the people i work with him as far as fate is concerned. but again, i saw it just be a good test of faith because we will started with desperation when we came in.

we didn't know what as good do, but at the same time, those that had great longing to go back to one's faith and trust in god. even new doors or churches were locked. you going to sit on a deep, deep longing to go back to god. and so i think from desperation that can increase of faith as well. ah, all right, setting the scene there from sister rose was perspective choosing flu, uganda mighty nice to see you. please introduce yourself to international realists . thank you for having me. i'm maggie for the senior director of religion and faith at the center for american progress, which is a multi issue think think so we focus on engaging and diverse base communities across america, in our family policy discourse and up listing issues like that would just be so good to have you and hello, stephanie. so welcome. please introduce yourself. tell him who you are and what you do. not stay everyone. hello, i'm sidney,

published an ad executive director of hindus for human rights, which is a nonprofit based in the us. but our focus is human rights in south asia and north america and beyond. and we really are, we have to dovetailing priorities. one is to lift up human rights and religious freedom from the perspective of our hindu faith. but also to add to that hindu voice and hindu force of love to interface spaces for social justice. focus to have all 3 of you phase leaders with us on the stream. i'm going to start with something practical. 5th, a rosemary, which takes us to a huge big cartons of soap. i will kill my laptop. you rolled up the sleeves and helped your community. what is going here on here? look what you're taking inventory. i had to create an invent something which i knew might as well could not afford. we had to buy them sanitize

us to prevent a convict. and we bought a soap. why he doesn't uganda. they couldn't afford even half a leader of them sundays, or even any. so i decided with my children and the girls, the vulnerable children to teach them how to make to eat with the song and the liquid. so we made any, not so much so that we give out to the wonderful community around with go to revenue scales. we give to awesome children, we give to so many people. but there was a good list were being taught this young people, instead of being idle of being this week, they learned something during the lot done when they didn't, how schools this was the home schooling, they learned that dying. i love that idea of rolling out the sneeze and just getting to the action and helping the community. maggie, this is the 2nd pandemic ramadan, in recent history. how was it?

how was age? how was that to governance, that celebration of togetherness? how was it now that one had gone and now there was another year of that. yeah, it was. it was still not the roman then i think many of us would have hoped or i'd be asleep. but it was absolutely different from, from a dime 2020, which was just a time and a great anxiety and grief that it was very early on in the pandemic. we didn't know what was going on. we didn't know how coven was even transmitted. and so we all had to be a new sort of complete lock down for that month in order to be safe. and meanwhile people are grieving, loved ones, and not being able to do that community. right. whereas for 2021, you know, we knew the public health guidance and some people, i think we're already, you know, we're already starting to be vaccinated. so, and we had kind of gotten in this rhythm of online communities,

some boss through able to that perhaps later in the year or not during ramadan. but, you know, do some in person gatherings and we were able to actually create either outdoors, my family and i which was an absolutely wonderful thing to see everybody in person on that day and know that we were, you know, still practicing public health guidance and able to do that, so still a struggle, but you know, kind of it definitely not where we were last year and we were so absolutely grateful for that. i'm going to bring him frank stella from the west michigan hindu temple. i'm going to aussie cynita to respond immediately, but maggie and sister rose me. i'm also expecting you to answer his question to his fright. i am deeply concerned for the spiritual health of our nation. many people look at this is only a political issue, but i look at it as moral religious and spiritual. and that is that so many people in positions of power, particularly those who are our elected officials,

will lie so brazenly about important things such as the state of our democracy. many people know that last year's election was legitimate, and yet they will claim it was not merely to hang on to power and to take advantage of the under educated and those challenged in their critical thinking. the same is true when talking about cove, it and the remedies for this pandemic. i'm happy to hear any comments on these. soon as you saw my, my immediate thought is of course i agree with fred and my my heart and my mind goes immediately to india, which is currently under the government, which is the b j. p government, which is a hindu nationalist government. and in today's india, the minorities, the religious minorities, especially muslims and christians and ballots, their rights are being severely compromised and democracy itself is on the line.

and so, fred, the word to make me remember that when he speaks about the lies, you know, and thinking about religious gatherings, there is the world's largest religious gathering. that takes place in india. it's called the convent mailer and the indian government. instead of putting the camella off, for reasons of, you know, we're in a pandemic and when you know, millions of people come together, it's certainly not a good idea during a pandemic like this. this government of india actually moved the mailer to one to one year in advance. they moved it forward a year. and this, this massive gathering took place and hundreds of thousands of people were, you know, they got it because of it. and the reason that they did that was for electioneering for campaigning. and so yes, 3 with friends, but i, i, i, am it transported to india where hinduism, the religion of fred and my,

and we are united where we know and i in to say. and so his comments apply to india as much as here. i mean, mike, what we're saying is that politicians don't always tell the truth. they're not always good leaders. so as faith leaders, what do you do then? yeah, that's, that's a real challenge. and i think what cynita is saying is, in some ways there are really clear echoes in what's happening. united states, we had a white nationalist administration for 4 years. that similarly handler, they think the pandemic and really destructive ways and, and polarized people and spread a big lie as, as spread was saying as fake leaders. fortunately, there is a lot we can do. we saw face leaders really mobilizing in the pandemic, for example, that were instrumental and vaccine rollout. we saw this year in particular that this, the by an administration partnered with the communities to do that vaccine roll out

and saw a decline in backseat hesitancy among those communities. and faith communities have been so incredibly engaged, in particular in protecting our democracy, which has been a beautiful thing to watch up in 20 you know, until the 2020 election in particular past that ensuring that we protect results. i know that there were faith leaders that were actively organizing to put their bodies on the line of 2020 election to help prevent violence because there was fear of that at the polls. and then it's just, it's really continued on into 2021. the advocacy for voting rights, nuns were getting arrested in front of the capital a couple of weeks ago. like there's incredible incredible activism on the part of faith leaders and faith communities that have stepped up in, in new ways and, and an interfaith ways as well throughout this year. just throws me here all and living in a place called hulu, which i know well, it's in the northern part of uganda and your daily challenges are so much more

different from the ones that maybe maggie is dealing with cynita is dealing with even just getting enough food, the people taking care of people, those are some of the biggest challenges that you have. how do you do with them? do people say the government should be doing this? they need to be taken care of us? how do you deal with that? actually what i think is that this special hen and the physical penny or people is a very, very important. and i don't for me, it is not enough to say the government should do this. the government should do that. and i wouldn't myself, but this point that the government is, every one of us is i do my part, then the government is in. and if someone else is bring you spot or heart, then we are the government. and it is very, very important for us as

a lead us to be able to direct of what in the right way or thinking even as i, as this coffee secretion is concerned, we and faithfully does have the right. we still have the right and the power to teach people to understand exactly how they can take care of themselves, but actively getting involved in how they can take care of themselves. practically showing them what they should do is not enough to speak. and again, our people need to be taught that they have the values, they can speak up to say no, this is not right. and is this is okay, but they mean to be lead forward because my people are so vulnerable. so my so that they would give silent and able to walk on their end, do not know what to do. as far as the vaccine is concerned, we had to get involved. we must get involved in telling people that this is the

good thing. this is the right thing. yes. and i agree with you completely sister. you know, for us we, our question is as progressive hindus, what is our role? what is our her mom in any particular challenging situation? and when kobe, the 2nd wave, especially in india, was just ravaging the country, especially the poorest people in india, especially the most marginalized. we were able to support a dollar organization in carola, which, and all the images that you showed in africa were very similar to what is the right group was doing, and carola, in villages and districts. and they also created an online school for dallas children in the villages because you know, middle class children where the able to go to their computers in their home. but these villages didn't even have internet. so to be able to support the most marginalized list organization in, in a part of india was part of you know, something that we could do and make

a difference. and also we have this project co boyce's a piece which is a grassroots media project. and you can see it on our website. but through that project we have been lifting up the voices of just ordinary citizens of india and time and time again, you will find people who will refuse to be divided by the politics of the nation. and you will find him booth and muslims, and speaks and christians just forgetting the differences between them and helping each other through this horrific crisis of coded india. guess i'm going to go to youtube because i've got a couple of questions here at our audience. are asking you for your advice. so this is kim maggie. i'm gonna put kim's thought to you festival with so many ongoing economic, social, political, and ecological courses. what role can faith play in sustaining optimism and hopefulness? maggie, that's a big question. oh, yeah,

thank you for roadway smiling. she's actually, i'm glad i didn't get that question, but the book, thank you lot. ha, i mean, i think in many ways the answer to that question is deeply personal. and so it looks differently for many and i don't want to kind of gloss over that, but i can share sort of what sustains me. all of that for you know, in my tradition we believe that god does not give any person a burden greater than what they can bear. and that is something that is helpful to remind me that whatever is coming, you know, whenever i am experiencing that i find incredibly challenging. god knows already that he's place enough strengths in my heart that i can enjoy that. and another. another thing that helps is that a friend of mine shared there's so much to fix in the world and i cannot fix everything. but i'm committed to doing what i can, where i can. and i think similarly that gives me hope that i know that god who has

given each of us a purpose and we have a duty to live out that purpose, whatever we can, wherever we can. we are not going to be able to solve everything in the face. so these massive crisis and systemic challenges that we're subtracting within, but we can do our part. right. and that's what gives me hope we have. we have the strengths within us. we have the light within us to bring about joy to bring about change and you know, god willing to bring about economic recovery and, and the end to these kinds of systemic ells as well. sister rosie, he was chuckling at how huge came the question was like, how do we, how do we stay hopeful when we have so many global crises or happening at the same time? and you will also to came will be what says the rosemary. you know what i'm thinking

about ready is that when we talk about faith pay my follow some actions. they can not stand alone. there must be something which keeps moving us. we keep doing something. and what is the lead with a group of people who are so who was willing to have some food to eat and they don't know who cannot and they don't how it is sort of labeled. they tell you that you might be present in that situation with them and it showed them the way, like what you thought we were making liquid. so why, why we're making the liquid so we're making the liquid so to respond to the more wonderful, you know, community because we have many people and we are even if, what was the region but those who are the of the world. and this is why it was the see they really youth who came from call from south

where them love wonder when people is doing this and in an action to make liquid soap or. and if you get to them is a symbol action. then we do. i'm going to go back to you chief and me to help me out with this question from may for may for says, how can we respond to faith leaders view and preach the pandemic as divine reckoning? i find this so harmful and building on hope and love base spirituality. i've also found that a lot of faith leaders are using the pandemic to sustain their particular viewpoint. i. e, my religious freedom means i don't need to wear a mosque. my religious freedom means that i don't need to get a vaccine. this is, this is quite, quite a challenge for anyone who, who has faith and he's looking to their religious leaders and perhaps they're being

misled. annisa. yes i, we've seen this in probably all the faith communities, but again, focusing on india when coded for us came on the scene. it was that there were many ways in which it was characterized as corona jihad. and the muslim community was blamed for coded and then the chinese were claimed for coded and, you know, there was, there were all these ways in which, whatever, whoever are political enemies were we used coded to, you know, attack those communities even more. and then india had these massive protests against a very discriminatory citizenship act. an anti muslim citizenship though that were taking place. and as soon as cove it hit, the government was able to use coded to shut those protests down. so those things

happen and i just come back to, i mean i was resonating so much with the comments made about faith and in hinduism, we are taught that the divine is in you and me, and every one and every aspect of the universe. and if that is truly something that we believe of hindus, then really it be it, it guides that and moves us to refuse to go to those places of division. and again, i just have seen over and over again among ordinary people. this review refusal to be divided, that's the only answer the answer is to in the, in the case that there is a line that says where lord, question says, do your own her mom in a perfectly rather than somebody else's earned by perfect. so it really is important that each one of us are spell is sure about what it is we stand for, what we believe who our god is, and live by that. and for me,

that means being in spaces where i am, look at looking at somebody who doesn't look like me or doesn't agree with me and i see god in their face. best hard and challenging when it's people who are saying hateful things. but that's, that's the, that's the work we have to do. and the much more beautiful part of that is being in a, in a space like that, where i'm looking at my sister's faces and i see god in your faces. that's how that's how we can find strength to speak up. i have one more voice to add to our conversation before i'm going to ask all me gas to give us something to sustain us, to get us to the end of 2021. and then over the hump into 2022. i don't know what they're going to say to help us do that, but i know it's going to be good. let's go to shaw head 1st. 2020 left the world in a state of shock with them a cad. i think none of us really expecting anything like it and it really tested us

in 2021. you start to see how the world reacted to it with respect to the world around us. i think for some of us, it made us more compassionate, more introspective. it forced us to consider what our values were with respect to the world. and i think for some people, unfortunately, it made us more cynical, more fearful, more selfish. how can we tap into various faith traditions to encourage more of the former and less of the latter? oh, how can we be better people? all right, wonderful. guess you have 30 seconds each is not enough time. lucky it is. go for it. i don't wanna repeat what i said earlier, but that really is that, you know, we have strength. we have lights that have been placed divinely within us. right? to do what we can, wherever we can. we are not asked to do any more than that, but we can make a difference just by meaning into that meaning into those gifts that we've been

given and quite willing can transform the world shanita. you know, truth is, god, truth is divine and truth is not always pretty, and i think it is absolutely our moral imperative, our duty as faithful people to speak the truth. just a few days ago, a muslim boy 22 years old, was lynched by a hindu set of boys, some of whom were his friends in how to honor those boys were saying, i am him. do you are a muslim as they killed him? as a hindu, i have to speak back truth and invite fellow hindus to stand up and say no, and can not at our name, not in our name, and that is love that case only tell you that you love. i want to spend a little bit of love and give a little bit of love to see the rosemary so that we don't end up without having her in the conversation. this rose made your sentence to sustain us to 2020. what is it?

i think as we enter 2032 is very important for us. do you remember that ria, our brothers and sisters keepers and would need to have that freedom but a company we corporate. this was a blanket center. mary's grandmother, take care of whatever we appreciate. you, sister, raceway, maggie cynita, you chief comments, appreciate all of you see you next time. i've come back to san diego to revisit the fascinating part of calcium history. they were crazy, creative, even visionary. they were top lester, not realistic. i was them as a child during and just pops into people still love them. it was basically too bad to be true. what they were predicting can comma to heal ethnic divisions and national tensions that exist in both you today. once upon

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