An Interfaith Celebration of
INTERNATIONAL PEACE DAY

Co-Sponsored at
Holy Spirit Retreat Center of the Sisters of Social Service,
with Pax Christi Southern California and Campaign Nonviolence

Sunday, September 21, 2014
12:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Come to celebrate and learn what paths we might take
in order to work towards nonviolent actions promoting a JUST PEACE.

Keynote Speaker – Kathy Kelly is an American peace activist, pacifist and author, one of the founding members of Voices in the Wilderness, and currently a co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence. She has traveled to Iraq twenty-six times, notably remaining in combat zones during the early days of both US-Iraq wars. During each of 14 trips to Afghanistan, Kathy Kelly, as an invited guest of the Afghan Peace Volunteers, has lived alongside ordinary Afghan people in a working class neighborhood in Kabul. She and her companions in Voices for Creative Nonviolence believe that “where you stand determines what you see.”

Interfaith Panel includes:

• Salam Al-Marayati, President of Muslim Public Affairs Council
• Rabbi Susan Goldberg, Wilshire Boulevard Temple, Los Angeles
• Rev. Chris Ponnet, Pastor, Chaplain, and Director of St. Camillus Center

Facilitated by Rt. Rev. Alexei Smith, Ecumenical and Interreligious Officer for the Los Angeles Archdiocese

The event is envisioned by the “Muslim and Catholic Women in Conversation”

FREE WILL OFFERING

Walk-ins welcome, but reservations requested to prepare hospitality,
please send name, address, phone of those attending to interfaithpeacegarden@gmail.com
Or mail registration to Holy Spirit Retreat Center attention: Peace Day event

Holy Spirit Retreat Center – 4316 Lanai Road, Encino, CA 91436
818-784-4515 / FAX 818-784-0409 / www.hsrcenter.com / hsrcenter@earthlink.net