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Earth Day 2020 Celebration

Planting Seeds for a New Normal

Parmarth Niketan and the Global Interfaith WASH Alliance, on 22nd April 2020 are bringing together Faith Leaders from all over the world to unite with one vision of how humanity can move forward from this crisis into a period of healing and harmony with ourselves and Mother Nature.

How can we create a world where both the Earth and humanity can be healthy? What seeds of love, unity and oneness do we need to be planting and nourishing during this time for the garden of the ‘new normal’ to grow? How are we going to co-create a new way of living? 

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Divine music from Deva Premal & Miten and more!

  • Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji, President of Parmarth Niketan & Co-Founder of Global Interfaith WASH Alliance, Rishikesh, India
  • Rabbi David Rosen, International Director of Interreligious Affairs of the American Jewish Committee , Jerusalem, Israel
  • Bhai Sahib Mohinder Singhji, Chairman of the Nishkam Group of Charitable Organisations , Burmingham, UK
  • Maulana Mahmood Madaniji, Secretary General of Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind , Delhi, India
  • Rev. Michael Beckwith, Founder and Spiritual Director of the Agape International Spiritual Center , Los Angeles, USA
  • Dr. Vandana Shivaji, world-renowned environmentalist and activist, Founder of Navdanya , Dehradun, India
  • Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswatiji, Secretary-General of the Global Interfaith WASH Alliance , Rishikesh, India
  • Dr. Azza Karam, Secretary General of Religions for Peace , New York, USA
  • Rev. Victor Kazanjian, Executive Director of the United Religions Initiative , San Francisco, USA
  • Audrey Kitagawa, Chair of the Parliament of the World’s Religions , New York, USA
  • Iyad Abumoghli, Director, Faith for the Earth, United Nations Environment Programme , Nairobi,  Kenya
  • Andrew Harvey, author, speaker, and founder/director of the Institute of Sacred Activism , Chicago, USA
  • Rabbi Awraham Soetendorp, Founder of Jacob Soetendorp Institute for Human Values, Co-Founder Green Cross International, Co-Founder Global Interfaith WASH Alliance , Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Father Paul Moonjely, Executive Director of Caritas India , Delhi, India
  • Matteus Van Der Velden, Manager, Asia Regional Unit of WSSCC , Geneva, Switzerland

In Partnership with

UN Environment Programme, Water Supply & Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC), Religions for Peace International,  Parliament of the World’s Religions, United Religions Initiative and Faith for Earth, as well as Unify and Uplift Connect.

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  • The Global Interfaith WASH Alliance’s Secretariat is located in the beautiful confines of Parmarth Niketan, Rishikesh. Parmarth Niketan, which means “an abode dedicated to the welfare of all,” was founded in 1942 on the beautiful banks of the River Ganga, not far from where the sparkling river first exits the emerald green Himalayas.

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