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 fifth 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 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 Network, Lausanne 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 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)
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
--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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