Special News and Events! 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. Into Integrity Special News and Events! International Anti-Corruption Day--9 December 2023 Theme: Uniting the World Against Corruption I  “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 fourth 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 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 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 and Events! International Anti-Corruption Day--9 December 2023 In this Update (#26) we highlight five items. We feature this year's International Anti-Corruption Day and the next online Virtual Cafe by the Global Integrity Network (both are on 9 December 2023) as well as the webinar by the Faith and Public Integrity Network (8 December 2023). We also encourage you to listen to our special Into Integrity podcast, Fearing the Lord: Learn from the Ghosts of Corruption—Live in the Light of Integrity—Love Truth, Peace, and People. Finally we share information in anticipation of the fifth Global Integrity Day (9 June 2024) that we help to facilitate. ----------- Item 1. UN International Anti-Corruption Day (9 December 2023) Uniting the World Against Corruption for Development, Peace, and Security “The 2023 International Anti-Corruption Day (IACD) seeks to highlight the crucial link between anti-corruption and peace, security, and development. At its core is the notion that tackling this crime is the right and responsibility of everyone, and that only through cooperation and the involvement of each and every person and institution can we overcome the negative impact of this crime. States, government officials, civil servants, law enforcement officers, media representatives, the private sector, civil society, academia, the public and youth, alike, all have a role to play in uniting the world against corruption. The 2023 IACD [also] commemorates the twentieth anniversary of the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC). As we celebrate this milestone, we reflect on the positive changes brought about by the collective efforts driven by the Convention. Equally crucial is our examination of the remaining gaps that require attention to ensure that this mechanism continues to strengthen in the years ahead.” Check out the website for resources and events! Item 2. Virtual Cafe (9 December 2023)--Save the date and register! Follow-up of the Conference on Integrity and Christian Identity (9 December 2023) Global Integrity Network (GIN), Lausanne-WEA .png)  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Item 3. The Role of Christians in Fighting Corruption (8 December 2023) webinar Item 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 Item 5. Global Integrity Day (GID)--9 June 2024 Theme TBA--Confronting Human Trafficking--Sharing Our Stories and Strategies  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).  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 |
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International Anti-Corruption Day--9 December 2023
Special News and Events! Note- Into Integrity has two parts . Part One (2020-current) Materials related to a) the Into Integrity FAST and ...