Posts Tagged ‘faith’
Oakland Museum and artists bring civic engagement to billboards
Oakland artist Chris Johnson and Oakland Museum of California curator use billboards to engage the community.
Read MoreWith Love Never Fails, Vanessa Russell reaches out to sex trafficking survivors
According to the State of California Department of Justice, human trafficking is the world’s fastest-growing criminal enterprise, bringing in $32 billion dollars a year globally. Vanessa Russell founded Love Never Fails in 2011 to fight human trafficking in the Bay Area. She was inspired to start the organization after she found out that a student of hers was being sex-trafficked throughout California.
Read MoreIn Oakland and around the world, the Bahá’i community begins a new year
The Christian and Chinese New Years parties are long over. But on March 21, the Bahá’i celebrated their Naw-Rúz (literally, New Year). The Bahá’i faith was established a century and a half ago and has more than 5 million members all over the planet. The religion is the second most widespread worldwide; only Christianity can…
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