International Anti-Corruption Day-9 December 2022

 Into Integrity
Special News and Events

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

“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."

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Spotlight Events
Save the Dates, and Register!
Solidarity with International Anti-Corruption Day--9 December 

International-Anti-Corruption Day--9 December (IAD). This year's theme is UNCAC at 20​: Uniting the World Against Corruption (UNCAC refers to the 2003 United Nations Convention Against Corruption). "On 31 October 2003, the [UN] 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.” (quote from UN IAD website) 

Also note that at the forefront are the many civil society organizations, networks, and efforts  around the world--including faith-based ones--that are engaged in confronting corruption and promoting integrity. We are actively involved in four of them: Global Integrity Network, Faith and Public Integrity Network, PETRA People Network, and Global Integrity Day--9 June.

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Spotlight Event 1
Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. Do not repay anyone evil for evil.
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Romans 12:9,17,21

Spotlight Event 1--Overcome Evil With Good Watch the archived recording HERE

Global Integrity Network (GIN) Online Conference-Webinar, 10 December 2022, broadcast at two different times: 9am Manila time and 9am New York time. Click HERE to register. This spotlight event is organized by GIN Lausanne Movement--World Evangelical Alliance. More information is in the images above and  below. Note thatt a  follow up "Virtual Cafe" is to be held on Saturday, 17 December, to provide more informal time for interaction.

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Spotlight Event 2
 

Spotlight Event 2--Uprooting Corruption, Defending Democratic Values

International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC), 6-10 December 2022, Washington DC. “Established in 1983, the IACC takes place usually every two years in a different region of the world, and hosts from 800 to 2000 participants from over 140 countries worldwide. [It] advances the anti-corruption agenda by raising awareness and stimulating debate. It fosters networking, cross-fertilisation and the global exchange of experience that are indispensable for effective advocacy and action, on a global and national level.

The conferences also promote international cooperation among government, civil society, the private sector, and citizens by providing the opportunity for face-to-face dialogue and direct liaison between representatives from the agencies and organisations taking part." (quote from IACC website).

There are 60 workshops and 7 plenaries scheduled. Check the IACC website to see which events are (hopefully!) available publicly by livestream and/or archived. Here are two examples of workshops related to faith-based issues:

--Workshop on Corruption and Impunity in God's Name: How to Tackle Trafficking, Money Laundering, Dark Money, and Much More in Religious Organizations

--Plenary on Defending the Defenders, Those Who Uncover the Truth and the Victims of Corruption and the Violations of Human Rights

Note that there are also ongoing IACC initiatives to keep up momentum between Conferences such as Social Entrepreneurs Initiative, the Young Journalists initiative, Fair Play Anti-Corruption Concerts, and series of Films for Transparency.

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Making the most of the spotlight events:
Watch one or more of the events, 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.

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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The Integrity Petition

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