“Seven Minutes of World Peace” heralded the upcoming UN International Day of Peace with a global seven-minute observance of Peace on 17 September 2020. This moment of peace was observed by many around the world simultaneously on that day, through prayer, meditation...
The 10th annual Sri Chinmoy Poetry Festival celebrated the United Nations and peace, and was attended by UN delegates and staff, academics and poetry lovers from around the world. The Poetry Festival took place in conjunction with a Convention attended by over 1500 of...
Singers from Sri Chinmoy: The Peace Meditation at the United Nations were invited to perform songs composed by Sri Chinmoy, dedicated to the UN and peace, for the 2017 Award Ceremony of the Institute of International Social Development (IISD), an NGO in special...
On 10 October 2017, Daw Aye Aye Thant, daughter of the third UN Secretary-General, U Thant, and President of the U Thant Institute, received the Sri Chinmoy Culture-Light Award. Also present were two special guests, who were both previous recipients of the...
The morning of 10 October 2017, local officials, former Olympians and community leaders participated in the 11th anniversary dedication of the Sri Chinmoy Street and Heart-Garden in Flushing Meadows Corona Park*, Ambassador Davidson Hepburn was the keynote speaker....
Sri Chinmoy’s Paintings for World Harmony were on display in the UN General Assembly Building, in the prestigious exhibit space of the Delegates Entrance, from 15 to 26 October 2012. The exhibition was dedicated to a Culture of Peace and was cosponsored by the...
A programme organized by H.E. Ambassador Hardeep Singh Puri, Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations, commemorated the UN International Day of Non-Violence on 2 October 2012 in the ECOSOC Chamber at UN Headquarters in New York. H.E. Mr. S.M. Krishna,...
Well over 100 individuals from more than 20 countries joined with family members of former United Nations Secretary General U Thant in Yangon in celebration of U Thant’s 103rd Birth Anniversary. UN dignitaries, members of Sri Chinmoy: The Peace Meditation at the UN,...
During the Celebration of the Life of Sri Chinmoy, held at the United Nations on 30 October 2007, Daw Aye Aye Thant, daughter of Secretary-General U Thant and Founder and President of the U Thant Institute, offered the following tribute: “I am greatly honoured to...
On 25 April 1997, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Mrs. Nane Annan (right, in front of flags) were honoured at a Solemn Interfaith Service of Commitment to the Work of the United Nations held at St. Bartholomew’s Church in New York City. Some twenty-five religious...
