closest to the mind there is open support for nationalization, but worry for the mountains with numbers though that i think come towards in good for our economy. mm hm. but the same time there is some damage the environment we are concerned about receiving glaciers. there's also talk a 1000000000 to tons of waste. we have some concerns. dig for gold and grow the economy, or preserve the natural environment, a question that is likely to keep coming up as long as there is gold in these hills . zane bas ravi al jazeera at the come tour gold mine in eastern kurdistan. ah, it's good to be with us. hello, adrian finnegan here and so are the headlines and al jazeera, the u. s. says that it will provide 7 global aid groups with an additional $580000000.00 to fight cove at 19. later on to say, president biden will announce plans to provide 500000000 free,

rapid home test kits for americans. he restrictions on gatherings and businesses in south korea following a rise in covey. 19 infections, their health work as a warning of a major crisis. as hospitals are stretched with new record daily cases. the head of the i national elections commission and libya, says he's dissolving the electoral committees and ending their work presidential. a presidential election was scheduled for december 24th. and the trainers following the latest developments from tripoli for 1st round of pres, wrote lunch or presidential elections were scheduled on this friday. uh, but for the last couple of weeks we've been seeing a lot of tension on the ground political tension as also tension within our the security apparatus is within the country of there was a definite sign that these elections were going to be postponed. but yet the national electoral commission, or the parliament or a really any senior government official,

wanted to come out and say that these elections weren't going to happen. turkey's leader, his own, some signs of recovery after the government introduced measures to ease the currency crisis. president rach uptight per to one announced a series of steps including a promise to compensate, save as for losses incurred he says that exporters will also be protected. there are warnings that people may resort to looting. if aid doesn't reach storm affected regions of the philippines, tens of thousands of without food, water and electricity. since typhoon ryan made land fall on saturday, 375 people are known to have died. 56 are still missing. people in the worst flood head region of belief here being moved to safety. 17 people have died. the government's been criticized over the pace of rescue efforts. as the headlines, one is for here now to sierra right after the stream coming up next frank assessments. this crisis is continued to weaken luca shenker, even though perhaps he believed in the beginning there have what's thankful for

informed opinions. i think politicians will now be under incredible pressure from their young people. that is one of the most hopeful things that come out of this critical debate. do you think a should be facilitated? not sure. okay, it's a great. it's a really simple question. let's give samuel chops once the inside story on al jazeera. i. hi, anthony. ok. how has 2021 been for yet? and looking forward to hearing from you, then today's episode of the stream we gather together face leaders and talk about their work this year. how faith has sustained them as helping them prepare for 2022 . this is an interfaith conversation. all denominations are welcome.

you look of an engine in used lockdown. we saw that many people use that as an opportunity to reconnect with god and to drive inspiration, hope, or resilience from the videos of your stratagem. 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. when 2021 seems to be reminding us is that it is still a very important coping mechanism for individuals who have experienced trauma. when i look at the fragmentation that is 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 in others as we move in to 2020. so how has your face guided you in

2021? this is a conversation that is i'm from to or of our view is if you're on you chief especially you can comment right here in the comics. actually be part of our show and talked to al guess let's meet your panel. hello sister raised me. hello maggie. hello, cynita. think it to have all 3 of you here says to raise me please introduce yourself to ass stream audience. i am listening 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 in this class, faith is from sons. but again, i saw it just been a good test of faith because we will have 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 once 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 abroad. 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. she's including uganda mikey. nice to see you. please introduce yourself to international realists. thank you for having me. i'm maggie dicky, senior director of religion and faith at the center for american progress, which is the multi issue. think think who we focus on in gauging diverse based communities across america, in our public policy discourse and uplifting issues like that with freedom. so good to have you and hello, sunny so welcome. please introduce yourself. tell i wouldn't have you all on what you do now, mr. everyone. hello, i'm sunni, coverage for non executive director of hindus for human rights, which is a non profit based in the u. s. 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 fe, but also to add to that hindu voice and hindu force of love to interface spaces for social justice. so get to have of 3 of you have lead. is it with us on the stream? i'm going to start with something practical system, rosemary, which takes us to a huge big cartons of soap. i will kill my laptop, his, you rolled up your sleeves and helped your community. what is going here on here? it looks like you're taking inventory. i had to create and invent something which i knew might as well could not afford. we had to buy time 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 it with the song and the liquid. so we made any, not so much so that we give out, do they wonder will community or on will go to revenue scales? we give to awesome children, we give to so many people, but that was a good list was 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 ramadan. i think many of us would have hoped or obviously, 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 cove it 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, some people i think were already, you know, were already starting to be vaccinated. so and we had kind of gotten in this rhythm of online communities. some boss are 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

e outdoor as 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 submitted 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, the government, which is a hindu nationalist government. and in today's india, the minorities, the religious minorities, especially muslims, and christians and dollars, 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 coma, mila 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 that 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 faith. 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 handled. they think the pandemic and really destructive ways and, and polarized people and, and spread a big lie as, as bride was saying, as fake leaders. fortunately, there is a lot we can do. we saw fade leaders really mobilizing in the pandemic, for example, that were instrumental and vaccine rollout. we saw this year in particular that this, the, by the administration partnered with the communities to do that vaccine roll out and saw a decline and vaccine 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 the results. i know that there were faith leaders that were actively organizing to put their bodies on the line of the 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 2020 wyoming the advocacy for voting rights. nuns were getting arrested in front of the capital a couple weeks ago, like as incredible, incredible activism on the part of faith leaders and faith committees that have stepped up in, in new ways 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 is think is that this special help and the physical health or people is the 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 his spot or her, then we are the government. and it's 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 out 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 it might be what i saw 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 dallas 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 the valid children in the villages because you know, middle class children where it be 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, the 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 refused to be divided by the politics of the nation. and you will find hindus and muslims, and speaks and christians just forgetting the differences between them and helping each other through fis, chris a crisis of coded india. guess i'm going to go to youtube because i've got a couple of questions here at our audience, asking you for your advice. so this is kim, amanda put kim's thought to you festival. with so many ongoing economic, social, political, and ecological crisis. what role can faith play in sustaining optimism and hopefulness? maggie, that's a big question. oh yeah, thank you for it right away, smiling. she's actually, i'm glad i didn't get that question, but the book, thank you lot. ha, go ahead. i mean,

i think in many ways the answer to that question is deeply personal and, and so it looks differently for many of us and, and i don't want to kind of gloss over that, but i can share sort of what sustains me. all of that or 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 strength 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 he's massive crisis and systemic challenges, right? 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 els 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 also to came will be what is the rosemary you know what i was thinking about already is that when we talk about sate, say my as follow, some actions fed can not stand alone. there must be something which keeps moving

eyes which keep doing something and before is as you leave with a group of people who are so poor, who are struggling to have some food to eat. and they don't know who cannot and, and they don't have any source of livelihood. the challenge is that you might be for as an investor visual with them, and it showed them the way, like what you saw, we were making liquid so well why? well, making the liquid so we're making the liquid so to respond to the was wonderful, you know, community because we have many poor people and we are all even it was, it was the vision. but now those look out for a live or the poorest. and this way we're able to see they really use who came from call from south sedan, where them was wonder when people is visited during disciplined him. and our faith

meant as in action to make liquid soap or sams, and distribute to them is a symbol of 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, the view, and preach the pandemic as divine reckoning. i find this so harmful and building on a 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 safe and he's looking to their religious leaders and perhaps they're being misled. laneesa. 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 work named 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 it hit, the government was able to use coded to shut goes protest 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 and really it, 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 the in the, in the case that there is a line that says where lord, question says, do your own her mom is perfectly rather than somebody else's. her 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 looking, 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 is 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 guess 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 got 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 of people? all right, wonderful. guess you have 30 seconds each is not enough time. lucky it is. go for it. i do repeat what i said earlier. 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. ready that but we can make a difference just by leaning into that meeting into those gifts that we've been given and quite willing can transform the world better. 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 hardy honor. those boys were saying, i am here though 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 t. what is it? i think as we enter 3032 is very important for us. do you remember that ria,

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