Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Global Integrity Day--9 June 2025

Global Integrity Day--9 June 2025
Theme: Empowering People to Defeat Corruption

Developing Resilience, Virtues, and Skills



“These are the things you are to do: Speak the truth to each other
and render true and sound judgment in your courts; do not plot evil against each other,
and do not love to swear falsely. I hate all this,” declares the Lord…
Therefore love truth and peace.” 
Zechariah 8:16,19

Warm greetings as we continue into our seventh year of Into Integrity,
taking action and sharing resources to support integrity. 
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Into Integrity Update
Read the full Update on the Into Integrity weblog

Overview
Into Integrity FASTinvolving 40 days of food fasting and hunger striking, featuring special podcasts and blogposts, was launched June through December 2019. We continue FAST via the ongoing call for the assistance and integrity of specific Christian organizations, leaders, and people affected by the international Nordic Capital investment KB (NCI) fraud: verifiably disclose via internal and independent reviews, make right the wrongful dismissals, and do what is “good, right, and true before the Lord your God" (2 Chronicles 31:20). 
 
We encourage you read the Into Integrity weblog to review why it is so important for the moral health and reputation of the Church-Mission Community to resolutely persevere in the FAST call. We also encourage you to listen to the Into Integrity podcasts, such as: Confronting Corruption in Our Midst: Principles for Courage, Integrity, and Action and Awaken the Good--A Personal Exhortation to Specific Leaders. There is more information about Into Integrity below towards the end.
 
Thank you for your encouragement, support, and prayers,

Kelly and Michèle O'Donnell
Live in integrity--Unite for integrity
prointegritynet@gmail.com

 


Special News!
Global Integrity Day--9 June 2025
Theme: Empowering People to Defeat Corruption

Developing Resilience, Virtues, and Skills

In this Update (#29) we feature this year's Global Integrity Day-9 June including some of the featured resources on the GID website along with a special Into Integrity podcast. 



"The only thing necessary for corruption to flourish
is to do nothing about it—or to do some non-efficacious and non-resolute 'thing'
[even rationalizing our motives and (non)actions as being 'noble and necessary']
and then move on, often with our consciences placated and our livelihoods protected."

Loving Truth and PeaceA Case Study (2013)
 
1. GID Overview
“Global Integrity Day (GID) is a positive day, launched on 9 June 2020, to reflect, teach, and collaborate on ways to integrate integrity in all we do throughout the entire year. GID is a strategic day to promote a) cultivating lifestyles, cultures, and systems of integrity from the individual through the international levels; b) joining together to understand and address the causes and consequences of corruption in its many forms; and c) working towards just and equitable societies marked with wellbeing for all people and for the planet. 

GID is [also] a solemn day to consider our ways: if we are lying and/or stealing in any way big or small, then we need to stop it. If we need to right a wrong we have done, then do so. If we need to prudently confront wrongdoing, preferably in solidarity with colleagues for mutual support and greater impact, then do so." (quote from the GID website)


2. Two recent examples of the many resources on the GID website are:
--
Corruption Perception Index 2024 (CPI), Transparency International (published 11 February 2025)
See the summarCPI 2024: Highlights and Insights.

--Developing Character Strengths–Being the Leaders Our World NeedsGlobal Integration Update (March 2023)See the research on Seven Strategies for Character Development.

 
3. Making the most of the GID resources
Review some of the featured materials highlighted in this Update and featured on the GID website--including doing so interactively with friends and colleagues. 
--List some practical applications for you/your settings.
--Was there anything you thought to be controversial or not helpful?
--List a few things that you would like to explore more.
--What did you find the most interesting or helpful?

We want to especially invite you to affirm someone you know (or know of) who is acting with integrity. Use GID as a special occasion to encourage them--it can be tough and risky to do what is right!
 
Participate in GID and spread the word! See the GID website for ideas about how to participate. Make every day an integrity day!


4. Into Integrity--A podcast to support the GID 2025 theme  
Confronting Corruption in Our Midst--Principles for Courage, Integrity, and Action. This is one on 14 special podcasts from Into Integrity and we share it to to support this year's GID. 

"Have you ever had to confront a specific matter of corruption? Not just someone or some organization 'way out there somewhere.' But something close to home, involving your friends, colleagues, and your own church or organization. And having to do so over a long period of time—maybe in the midst of opposition, discrediting, slanted half-truths, and excuses for not having to do anything. In today’s podcast, we’ll look into these important matters...Corruption is closer to home than you might think. And so is rationalizing it in our midst, including in ourselves.. (quote from the Into Integrity website)


5.  Defining Integrity and Corruption (adapted from Global Integrity Day-9 June)
Integrity is moral wholeness—living consistently in moral wholeness—with honesty, humility and all the virtues--and with an awareness of one’s potential to deceive and harm oneself and othersIntegrity needs external moral referents--standards of virtue with accountability--and not simply positive self-appraisals--in order to safeguard us all from both blind and willful hypocrisy. 


Global integrity is living consistently in moral wholeness at all levels--individual, interpersonal, institutional, and international; across sectors and settings; local through global; the systemic and structural.

Corruption is moral rottenness, the opposite of integrity--the distortion, perversion, and deterioration of moral goodness, resulting in the abuse and exploitation of people and the planet. It is integroty. 'If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, then how great is your darkness!" (Matthew 6:23)

Note that the above definitions of integrity and corruption open the door wide to the crucial discussion and clarification of "external moral referents" and "standards of virtue and accountability" as well as the process and accuracy of one's moral perceptions of self and others.


Into Integrity
Make every day an integrity day!
 
"Corruption is criminal, immoral and the ultimate betrayal of public trust.….We must hold leaders to account….A vibrant civic space and open access to information are essential. And we must protect the rights and recognize the courage of whistle-blowers who expose wrongdoing….As an age-old plague takes on new forms, let us combat it with new heights of resolve.” UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, Statement on corruption (15 October 2020).
 
 
The purpose of Into Integrity is to call attention to--and confront--the lack of disclosures by specific organizations/leaders/people affected by the international Nordic Capital Investment KB fraud (NCI) as well as the related, wrongful dismissals directed at Kelly and Michèle O’Donnell. It has featured a 40 day FAST (part one 6-26 June 2019 and part two 6-26 December 2019): FAsting for genuine contrition and STriking for resolute action within the Church Mission Community (CMC)
.
Integrity is moral wholeness—living consistently in moral wholeness. Corruption is moral rottenness, the opposite of integrity--the distortion, perversion, and deterioration of moral goodness, resulting in the exploitation of people. Global integrity is living consistently in moral wholeness at all levels--individual, interpersonal, institutional, and international--across sectors and settings, local through global.
 
Going Further
See the  Into Integrity weblog-updates for more background information including: 
--Links for comments by colleagues expressing their strong support for the specific calls to people and organizations for integrity, disclosures, and confronting wrongful dismissals;
 
--Links for the Into Integrity podcasts and blogposts: seven by Kelly (Part One, June 2019) and seven by Michèle and Kelly (Part Two, December 2019);
 
--Links to the latest PETRA People weblogs focusing on a) new resources for integrity and anti-corruption and b) continuing the call for assistance by specific leaders, organizations and others affected by the international NCI fraud: the Professional Review, the Healing the Body summary-summons (Part Two of every weblog entry), and the Integrity Petition  (see below).
 

Integrity Petition

Shine the Light--Together!

This petition is an ongoing, international call for the organizations (current and past staff, leaders, board members, etc.) and people affected by the Nordic Capital Investment KB (NCI) fraud to share and help uncover the truth—to transparently and verifiably disclose.
 
There must be zero tolerance for corruption and its cover ups, complicity, and cowardice.
 
Act with integrity--live in integrity. Read it, sign it, share it. Thank you!

"Don’t be intimidated. Eventually everything is going to be out in the open, and everyone will know how things really are. So don’t hesitate to go public now. Don’t be bluffed into silence by the threats of bullies. There’s nothing they can do to your soul, your core being. Save your fear for God, who holds your entire life—body and soul—in his hands." 
Matthew 10: 26-28, The Message

Saturday, November 30, 2024

International Anti-Corruption Day--9 December 2024

  Note- Into Integrity has two parts.
--Part One (2020-current) Materials related to a) the Into Integrity FAST and b) news and resources emphasizing Global Integrity Day-9 June and International Anti-Corruption Day-9 December.--Part Two (2019) Materials related to the Into Integrity FAST emphasizing the 14 podcasts and the 18 blog posts.

Special News!



International Anti-Corruption Day--9 December 2024
Uniting with Youth Against Corruption
Shaping Future Integrity

Defining Integrity--How much do you have?
Futurizing Integrity--How will you embody it?
 

“These are the things you are to do: Speak the truth to each other
and render true and sound judgment in your courts; do not plot evil against each other,
and do not love to swear falsely. I hate all this,” declares the Lord…
Therefore love truth and peace.” Zechariah 8:16,19

Warm greetings as we continue into our sixth year of Into Integrity,
taking action and sharing resources to support integrity. 
----------

Into Integrity Update

Overview

Into Integrity FASTinvolving 40 days of food fasting and hunger striking, featuring special podcasts and blogposts, was launched June through December 2019. We continue FAST via the ongoing call for the assistance and integrity of specific Christian organizations, leaders, and people affected by the international Nordic Capital investment KB (NCI) fraud: verifiably disclose via internal and independent reviews, make right the wrongful dismissals, and do what is “good, right, and true before the Lord your God" (2 Chronicles 31:20). 

We encourage you read the Into Integrity weblog to review why it is so important for the moral health and reputation of the Church-Mission Community to resolutely persevere in the FAST call. We also encourage you to listen to the Into Integrity podcasts, such as: Confronting Corruption in Our Midst: Principles for Courage, Integrity, and Action and Awaken the Good--A Personal Exhortation to Specific Leaders. There is more information about Into Integrity below towards the end.

Thank you for your encouragement, support, and prayers,


Kelly and Michèle O'Donnell
Live in integrity--Unite for integrity
prointegritynet@gmail.com

      



Special News!
International Anti-Corruption Day--9 December 2024
Defining and Futurizing Integrity

In this Update (#28) we feature this year's International Anti-Corruption Day with its theme, "Uniting with Youth Against Corruption--Shaping Tomorrow's Integrity" (Resource 1). We also feature three resources that probe into the nature of integrity and how much integrity you have now and into the future: a) definitions of integrity and corruption based on Global Integrity Day-9 June (Resource 2), b) an insightful podcast by Tim Keller on "Integrity" as he delves into Jesus' Sermon on the Mount (Resource 3), c) and three compelling readings in Fearing the Lord, one of our podcasts from Into Integrity

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Resource 1. International Anti-Corruption Day (9 December 2024) (IAD)
The theme this year is Uniting with Youth Against Corruption--Shaping Tomorrow's Integrity. This is the 22nd annual IAD which was initiated the same year as the UN Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC, 2003). Have a look at the website to see the resources and activities that are happening around the time of this international day and into the coming year. Consider how you can connect and participate including how to involve young people in your spheres of influence. Note also the work of the UNCAC Civil Society Coalition which serves as a support and a watchdog for the extent to which UN member sates are fulfilling their commitments to the UNCAC.


IAD 2024 Overview. "Our world confronts numerous challenges, tragedies, inequalities and injustices, many of which are tied to corruption. With 1.8 billion young people in the world, fighting corruption is vital for the future of nearly a quarter of the global population. While young people are significantly affected by corruption, they also have the potential to become powerful agents of change in the fight for a future rooted in integrity....Therefore, the campaign for International Anti-Corruption Day 2024-2025 focuses on the role young guardians of integrity play as advocates, raising awareness about corruption and its impacts on their communities. They will actively participate in discussions, share their experiences and propose innovative solutions to combat corruption. The campaign will amplify voices of integrity leaders of tomorrow, allowing them to express their concerns and aspirations, with the hope that their appeals will be heard and acted upon. " (quote from the IAD website)

Check out the IAD website for resources, activities, and events!

Note also the new edited book, We the People: The UN Whistleblowers--Whistleblowing and Retaliation in the United Nations, edited by Caroline Hunt-Matthes.


Defining and Futurizing Integrity
How Much Do You Have? How will you embody it?

Resource 2. Integrity and Corruption
'Shaping future integrity" is an emphasis of this year's IAD. Bravo! Yet what exactly are we trying to shape--what is "integrity"? And how is it actually being shaped--how do we develop and maintain "integrity"? And how do you and others know if you are acting with integrity--how do you evaluate "integrity"?  Our default is too assume and to affirm that we got it--but that is not always true. Integrity is is often "mixed"--true in some parts of our life but not all parts--and with mixed motives. All a person’s ways seem pure to them, but motives are weighed by the LORD. (Proverbs 16:2)

Defining Integrity and Corruption (adapted from Global Integrity Day-9 June)
Integrity is moral wholeness—living consistently in moral wholeness—with honesty, humility and all the virtues--and with an awareness of one’s potential to deceive and harm oneself and othersIntegrity needs external moral referents--standards of virtue with accountability--and not simply positive self-appraisals--in order to safeguard us all from both blind and willful hypocrisy. 

Global integrity is living consistently in moral wholeness at all levels--individual, interpersonal, institutional, and international; across sectors and settings; local through global; the systemic and structural.

Corruption is moral rottenness, the opposite of integrity--the distortion, perversion, and deterioration of moral goodness, resulting in the abuse and exploitation of people and the planet. It is integroty. 'If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, then how great is your darkness!" (Matthew 6:23)

Note that the above definitions of integrity and corruption open the door wide to the crucial discussion and clarification of "external moral referents" and "standards of virtue and accountability" as well as the process and accuracy of one's moral perceptions of self and others.

Note also that theme for this year's Global Integrity Day (GID) is Fighting Human Trafficking with Solidarity, Skill, and Integrity. Fighting human trafficking is a crucial area to rally behind and involve youth! One of GID's four features is that it is "is a companion day to complement UN International Anti-Corruption Day, 9 December (and vice versa). Both Days are practical rallying points, six months apart, for fostering common ground, organizing events, sharing initiatives, affirming anti-corruption workers, and involving the public." (quote from GID website)

Image from Pixabay

Fighting Human Trafficking with Solidarity, Skill, and Integrity
See more on the GID website!


 Resource 3Integrity podcast--Matthew 5:33-37 by Tim Keller 
"We’re going through the Sermon on the Mount and we have Jesus Christ telling us how he wants us to live. He has dealt with the commandment on murder and adultery, and now he’s dealing with the commandment on lying. He’s going to talk to us about integrity, truth, and honesty. We have as big a problem in our culture with this. Therefore, let’s take a look and see what Jesus says about integrity. He gives us the principle behind integrity and tells us something about the practice of integrity. And finally, he hints at a problem we all have with integrity, and how to solve it.”


Image courtesy and © 2019 ENOD

Acknowledging and being aware of God's presence is key for practicing integrity consistently and courageously and to counter our own daily propensities for succumbing to the 'corruption that arises from the lusts of deceit' (Ephesians 4:22 and 2 Peter 1:4). Live in God's light always and everywhere!

Note: Tim Keller died in May 2023. You can read reflections on his life and ministry in various places such as the 21 May 2023 article in Christianity Today. "In an increasingly divisive world, the pastor theologian’s legacy was walking the higher road—the one less traveled." Listen to more of his podcasts HERE.


 Resource 4. Fearing the Lord: Learning from the Ghosts of Corruption—Living in the Light of Integrity—Loving Truth, Peace, and People (podcast)


"Marley's Ghost" in Dicken's A Christmas Carol.
An excerpt is featured in the podcast below.
 
This is the one of 14 Into Integrity podcasts that we have done to advocate for truth, repentance, and healing in the past and ongoing NCI KB et al. corruption and related dismissals (Into Integrity podcasts, June and December 2019). For example:

Fearing the Lord: Learning from the Ghosts of Corruption—Living in the Light of Integrity—Loving Truth, Peace, and People (Christmas Eve 2019). We share three powerful exhortations that can inform our efforts to stand in solidarity; to promote good practice and integrity; and to bring healing to the international Church Mission Community and to the specific organizations, leaders, and people affected by the international NCI fraud. This theme also serves to summarize the messages from all seven podcasts-blogposts done during FAST in December 2019.

 You can listen to the podcast HERE
You can read the blogpost HERE



Into Integrity
Make every day an integrity day!

"Corruption is criminal, immoral and the ultimate betrayal of public trust.….We must hold leaders to account….A vibrant civic space and open access to information are essential. And we must protect the rights and recognize the courage of whistle-blowers who expose wrongdoing….As an age-old plague takes on new forms, let us combat it with new heights of resolve.”  UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, Statement on corruption (15 October 2020)
 

The purpose of Into Integrity is to call attention to--and confront--the lack of disclosures by specific organizations/leaders/people affected by the international Nordic Capital Investment KB fraud (NCI) as well as the related, wrongful dismissals directed at Kelly and Michèle O’Donnell. It has featured a 40 day FAST (part one 6-26 June 2019 and part two 6-26 December 2019): FAsting for genuine contrition and STriking for resolute action within the Church Mission Community (CMC).
 
Integrity is moral wholeness—living consistently in moral wholeness. Corruption is moral rottenness, the opposite of integrity--the distortion, perversion, and deterioration of moral goodness, resulting in the exploitation of people. Global integrity is living consistently in moral wholeness at all levels--individual, interpersonal, institutional, and international--across sectors and settings, local through global.
 
Going Further
See the  Into Integrity weblog-updates for more background information including: 

--Links for comments by colleagues expressing their strong support for the specific calls to people and organizations for integrity, disclosures, and confronting wrongful dismissals;

--Links for the Into Integrity podcasts and blogposts: seven by Kelly (Part One, June 2019) and seven by Michèle and Kelly (Part Two, December 2019);

--Links to the latest PETRA People weblogs focusing on a) new resources for integrity and anti-corruption and b) continuing the call for assistance by specific leaders, organizations and others affected by the international NCI fraud: the Professional Review, the Healing the Body summary-summons (Part Two of every weblog entry), and the Integrity Petition  (see below).


Shine the Light--Together!

This petition is an ongoing, international call for the organizations (current and past staff, leaders, board members, etc.) and people affected by the Nordic Capital Investment KB (NCI) fraud to share and help uncover the truth—to transparently and verifiably disclose.

There must be zero tolerance for corruption and its cover ups, complicity, and cowardice.
Act with integrity--live in integrity. Read it, sign it, share it. Thank you!

"Don’t be intimidated. Eventually everything is going to be out in the open, and everyone will know how things really are. So don’t hesitate to go public now. Don’t be bluffed into silence by the threats of bullies. There’s nothing they can do to your soul, your core being. Save your fear for God, who holds your entire life—body and soul—in his hands." 

Saturday, May 25, 2024

Global Integrity Day-9 June 2024

 Note- Into Integrity has two parts.
--Part One (2020-current) Materials related to a) the Into Integrity FAST and b) news and resources emphasizing Global Integrity Day-9 June and International Anti-Corruption Day--9 December.
--Part Two (2019) Materials related to the Into Integrity FAST emphasizing the 14 podcasts and the 18 blog posts.

Special News and Events!


“These are the things you are to do: Speak the truth to each other
and render true and sound judgment in your courts; do not plot evil against each other,
and do not love to swear falsely. I hate all this,” declares the Lord…
Therefore love truth and peace.” Zechariah 8:16,19

Warm greetings as we continue into our fifth year of Into Integrity,
taking action and sharing resources to support integrity. 
----------

Into Integrity Update
Read the full Update on the Into Integrity weblog

Overview

Into Integrity FASTinvolving 40 days of food fasting and hunger striking, featuring special podcasts and blogposts, was launched June through December 2019. We continue FAST via the ongoing call for the assistance and integrity of specific Christian organizations, leaders, and people affected by the international Nordic Capital investment KB (NCI) fraud: verifiably disclose via internal and independent reviews, make right the wrongful dismissals, and do what is “good, right, and true before the Lord your God" (2 Chronicles 31:20). 

We encourage you read the Into Integrity weblog to review why it is so important for the moral health and reputation of the Church-Mission Community to resolutely persevere in the FAST call. We also encourage you to listen to the Into Integrity podcasts, such as: Confronting Corruption in Our Midst: Principles for Courage, Integrity, and Action and Awaken the Good--A Personal Exhortation to Specific Leaders. There is more information about Into Integrity below towards the end.

Thank you for your encouragement, support, and prayers,


Kelly and Michèle O'Donnell
Live in integrity--Unite for integrity
prointegritynet@gmail.com

      




Spotlight Events and Resources
 2023
Fighting Human Trafficking
Solidarity-Skills-Integrity


In this Update (#27) we highlight the upcoming Global Integrity Day (GID)--9 June 2024. The theme is Fighting Human Trafficking with Solidarity-Skills-Integrity. We are excited and encouraged to see colleagues in different countries getting involved! GID is "a positive day to reflect, teach, and collaborate on ways to integrate integrity in all we do throughout the entire year..." Visit the GID website to explore the latest integrity and anti-corruption resources (50+ for this years theme) and some of the suggested ways to connect with GID.

Note that there are many "spotlight events and resources" regularly listed on the GID website. Some of the examples for this year's theme are from the International Justice Mission



Spotlight 1. Integrity at All Costs--Building the Kingdom of God (1 June 2024, Toronto, Canada). Global Integrity NetworkLausanne Movement and World Evangelical Alliance. A hybrid event! 



Spotlight 2.
Confronting Global Threats: Standing Up for Integrity. International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC) (18-21 June 2024, Vilnius, Lithuania). Transparency International et al
Videos of the Plenaries are available HERE “In an era marked by interconnected global threats undermining global security, the need to combat these challenges is more pressing than ever. Those who are championing integrity, environmental protection, human rights, and social justice are engaged in a fierce battle....The transition to a multipolar world, characterised by an ineffective global governance system, has further undermined efforts to fight corruption. Greed and disregard of integrity among those in power have become a norm, perpetuating impunity by violence, a shadowy financial system, unchecked networks of enablers, and new opportunities opened by emerging technologies. As a global movement, we have persistently called upon world leaders to translate their commitments to protect fundamental values and combat corruption into concrete actions. Reflecting on last year’s IACC, it has become clear that these promises often fall short. We must strengthen our alliances and support those fighting for integrity, our shared rights and for the world we want.” (quote from the IACC website)



Spotlight 3. Confronting Corruption in Our Midst--Principles for Courage, Integrity, and ActionThis is one on 14 special podcasts from Into Integrity and we share it to to support this year's GID. "Have you ever had to confront a specific matter of corruption? Not just someone or some organization 'way out there somewhere.' But something close to home, involving your friends, colleagues, and your own church or organization. And having to do so over a long period of time—maybe in the midst of opposition, discrediting, slanted half-truths, and excuses for not having to do anything. In today’s podcast, we’ll look into these important matters...Corruption is closer to home than you might think. And so is rationalizing it in our midst, including in ourselves.. (quote from the Into Integrity website)



Spotlight 4. "Help Them Heal-Stop Human Trafficking." This is the watchword for a current advocacy campaign for integrity in Cameron related to GID this year. For more information contact the Ethical Reform Organization (tabaebenezartata@gmail.com).  Promotional sticker above. 


Spotlight 5--You! And we want to especially invite you to affirm someone you know (or know of) who is acting with integrity. Use GID as a special occasion to encourage them--it can be tough and risky to do what is right!


 Making the most of the spotlight activities:

1. Watch some of the spotlight events on 1 June (Global Integrity Network) and June 18--21 (Transparency International)--or the archived recordings later--including doing so interactively with friends and colleagues.

--What did you find the most interesting or helpful?
--List a few things that you would like to explore more.
--Was there anything you thought to be controversial or not helpful?
--List some practical applications for you/your settings.

2. Participate and spread the word! Make every day an integrity day!


Global Integrity Day (GID)
Four Features
   
GID is a positive day to reflect, teach, and collaborate on ways to integrate integrity in all we do throughout the entire year.

GID is also a strategic day to promote a) cultivating lifestyles, cultures, and systems of integrity from the individual through the international levels; b) joining together to understand and address the causes and consequences of corruption in its many forms; and c) working towards just and equitable societies marked with wellbeing for all people and for the planet.

GID is a solemn day to consider our ways: if we are lying and/or stealing in any way big or small, then we need to stop it. If we need to right a wrong we have done, then do so. If we need to prudently confront wrongdoing, preferably in solidarity with colleagues for mutual support and greater impact, then do so.

GID is a companion day to complement UN International Anti-Corruption Day, 9 December (and vice versa). Both Days are practical rallying points, six months apart, for fostering common ground, organizing events, sharing initiatives, and involving the public.



Into Integrity
Make every day an integrity day!

"Corruption is criminal, immoral and the ultimate betrayal of public trust.….We must hold leaders to account….A vibrant civic space and open access to information are essential. And we must protect the rights and recognize the courage of whistle-blowers who expose wrongdoing….As an age-old plague takes on new forms, let us combat it with new heights of resolve.”  UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, Statement on corruption (15 October 2020)
 

The purpose of Into Integrity is to call attention to--and confront--the lack of disclosures by specific organizations/leaders/people affected by the international Nordic Capital Investment KB fraud (NCI) as well as the related, wrongful dismissals directed at Kelly and Michèle O’Donnell. It has featured a 40 day FAST (part one 6-26 June 2019 and part two 6-26 December 2019): FAsting for genuine contrition and STriking for resolute action within the Church Mission Community (CMC).
 
Integrity is moral wholeness—living consistently in moral wholeness. Corruption is moral rottenness, the opposite of integrity--the distortion, perversion, and deterioration of moral goodness, resulting in the exploitation of people. Global integrity is living consistently in moral wholeness at all levels--individual, interpersonal, institutional, and international--across sectors and settings, local through global.
 
Going Further
See the  Into Integrity weblog-updates for more background information including: 

--Links for comments by colleagues expressing their strong support for the specific calls to people and organizations for integrity, disclosures, and confronting wrongful dismissals;

--Links for the Into Integrity podcasts and blogposts: seven by Kelly (Part One, June 2019) and seven by Michèle and Kelly (Part Two, December 2019);

--Links to the latest PETRA People weblogs focusing on a) new resources for integrity and anti-corruption and b) continuing the call for assistance by specific leaders, organizations and others affected by the international NCI fraud: the Professional Review, the Healing the Body summary-summons (Part Two of every weblog entry), and the Integrity Petition  (see below).


Shine the Light--Together!

This petition is an ongoing, international call for the organizations (current and past staff, leaders, board members, etc.) and people affected by the Nordic Capital Investment KB (NCI) fraud to share and help uncover the truth—to transparently and verifiably disclose.

There must be zero tolerance for corruption and its cover ups, complicity, and cowardice.
Act with integrity--live in integrity. Read it, sign it, share it. Thank you!

"Don’t be intimidated. Eventually everything is going to be out in the open, and everyone will know how things really are. So don’t hesitate to go public now. Don’t be bluffed into silence by the threats of bullies. There’s nothing they can do to your soul, your core being. Save your fear for God, who holds your entire life—body and soul—in his hands." 

Global Integrity Day--9 June 2025

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