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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… Warm greetings as we continue into our fourth year
of Into Integrity,
taking action and sharing resources to support integrity. ----------
Into
Integrity Update Overview
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).
Thank
you for your encouragement, support, and prayers,
Kelly and Michèle O'Donnell
Live in integrity--Unite for integrity
prointegritynet@gmail.com
Spotlight Activities
Global Integrity Day-9 June 2023 Faith-Based Champions Fighting Corruption Sharing our Stories and Strategies
In this Update (#25) we
highlight the upcoming Global Integrity Day (GID)--9
June 2022. The theme is "Faith-based
Champions Fighting Corruption--Sharing Our Stories and Strategies." 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. GID Spotlight Activities GID this year features a selection of special
"spotlight activities" such as radio broadcasts, gatherings, and
webinars. Specifically, we encourage you to note three of the special spotlight events for GID this year. Let us know if you would also like to organize an activity related to GID and share your stories and strategies for integrity and anti-corruption on the GID website.
1. Joint Webinar. We are thrilled to invite you to a special spotlight event (one-hour webinar) for GID-9 June with both Tear Fund and the Faith and Public Integrity Network. The webinar is Perceptions on Corruption from Faith Leaders in Latin America. RSVP here to receive the join link. This is a public webinar and please feel free to share about it with your colleagues and networks. More details are on the GID website--update August--the Full Report, Executive Summary, and short animated video are now available of the Tear Fund Study that the webinar was based on.
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2. Cameroon Initiative. We also highlight a special GID activity that has already begun in Cameroon. A pastor there who heard about GID has enthusiastically designed special shirts and hats for GID with a GID motto, "Make every day an integrity day." He is also planning to do radio broadcasts on and around GID-9 June to educate and advocate for integrity and anti-corruption. More information is posted on the GID website along with the pastor's inspiring story about his experience confronting petty corruption in his church (written) and his short video greetings and encouragement about GID.
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3. You! Affirm someone you know (or know of) who is acting with integrity. Use GID as a special occasion to encourage them!---------- Making the most of the spotlight activities:
1. Let
us know if you would also like to organize an activity related to
GID and share your stories and strategies for integrity and
anti-corruption on the GID website.
2. Watch
the main spotlight webinar on 9 June (or the archived recording 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.
3. 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
--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."
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