Monday, November 22, 2021

International Anti-Corruption Day--9 December 2021

Into Integrity
Special News and Events
Your Rights and Responsibilities
Fighting the Evil of Corruption

Live in integrity--Unite for integrity
#HealUsToo  --  #MyOrganizationToo  --  #PetraPeopleNet

Into Integrity blogpost/podcast (19 December 2019)

“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
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Warm greetings!

Into Integrity Update
The Into Integrity FAST, involving 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 to: 
--Read the Into Integrity weblog entries 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.

--Listen to our podcast: Awaken the Good—Heal the Body: A Personal Exhortation for Specific Leaders (20 December 2019). We continue the ongoing efforts to call for and pray for repentance and healing in the international Church Mission Community. 

--Listen to our 
podcast: Confronting Corruption in Our Midst: Principles for Courage, Integrity and Action (12 December 2019). It is a reflection of this Updates message to "go boldly into the darkness as we live in integrity and unite for integrity."

--See also Global Integrity Day, 9 June 2021: Corruption and Poverty. This special, annual day is a time to reflect, teach, and collaborate on ways to integrate integrity in all we do throughout the entire year. At the bottom of the site there is an opportunity to stand with others in solidarity by publicly endorsing this special Day—this ongoing effort--as an individual, project, organization, and/or network. 
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Special News and Events

In this Update we focus on the upcoming UN International Anti-Corruption Day and the Lausanne-WEA Global Integrity Conference, both on 9 December. Have a look and participate!


Special Event 1. United Nations International Anti-Corruption Day, 9 December 2021. Theme: Our Right, Our Role: Say No to Corruption. "The 2021 International Anti-Corruption Day seeks to highlight the rights and responsibilities of everyone--including States, Government officials, civil servants, law enforcement officers, media representatives, the private sector, civil society, academia, the public and youth --in tackling corruption....A six-week campaign starting at the beginning of November aims to highlight the role of key stakeholders and individuals in preventing and countering corruption in line with the theme, “Your right, your role: say no to corruption”. Each week will focus on one of these key topics. Education and youth Sport Gender Private sector COVID-19." More information and resources are on the website of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime.

Background. "Corruption undermines democratic institutions, slows economic development and contributes to governmental instability....On 31 October 2003, the General Assembly adopted the United Nations Convention against Corruption and...also designated 9 December as International Anti-Corruption Day, to raise awareness of corruption and of the role of the Convention in combating and preventing it....Governments, the private sector, non-governmental organizations, the media and citizens around the world are joining forces to fight this crime. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) are at the forefront of these efforts."




Special Event 2. Global Integrity Network, Special Webinar-Conference, organized by the Lausanne Movement-World Evangelical Alliance, 9 December 2021. Theme: Integrity: Fighting the Evil of CorruptionThe Lausanne-WEA Integrity and Anti-Corruption Network (GIN) is committed to empower Christians to champion the value and practice of integrity and effective anti-corruption efforts. This is the third GIN conference this year, bringing colleagues together from around the world in order to galvanize the Church-Mission Community's efforts for pro-integrity and anti-corruption. Experts will address a variety of issues in this two hour event. It will be followed on 11 December with "Virtual Cafés" to further interact on the topics with speakers and participants. Register HERE for the conference. More information and resources are on the GIN website Update--Presentations are available HERE.

Also note: Corruption and Anti-Corruption in Health Care: Why do we speak so little about them? 13 December 13:00 (UTC). Organised by the Faith and Public Integrity Network

Update--Watch the one hour recording of the webinar HERE

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“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

Fight the evil of corruption--in all its forms.
Live in integrity--Unite for integrity

Kelly and Michèle
prointegritynet@gmail.com


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Into Integrity

Thank you for your encouragement, support, and prayers. 


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, systemic and structural.

Going further--See also:

--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 weblog 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, and the Integrity Petition. 
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Shine the Light-Together!

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

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