Christianity, which tells the story of another Father's willingness to sacrifice his Son, sublimates the impulse to sacred violence still further, with the bloody sacrifice of the Lamb of God commemorated for the past 2,000 years in countless variations on crosses and altars, in liturgical practices and works of art.
Juba, 11 October 2012 – On the International Day of the Girl Child 2012, commemorated for the first time, the UN calls on families, communities and governments at all levels to end child marriage in South Sudan.
Day of the International Girl Child 2012; "My right, My Life, End child Marriage" United Nations calls to end child marriage in South Sudan 11 October 2012 – On the International Day of the Girl Child 2012, commemorated for the first time, the UN calls on families, communities and governments at all levels to end child marriage in South Sudan.
Nov 20 this year is the International Day for Prayer and Action for Children and also the 22nd Anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child which is being commemorated for the first time in the Republic of South Sudan which gained independence, July 9.
On the eve of the 150th anniversary of Juneteenth, the day commemorated for having the last enslaved Blacks freed in America, it's time we seriously address the vitriolic legacies of white supremacy.
And I was reminded of this a few weeks ago, at a special event in Dublin to commemorate – for perhaps the first time – the Irish women who took part in the Easter Rising, and to honour the involvement of Irish women in the life of the state ever since.
April 15 has special significance to Americans, but also people around the world who wish to commemorate, for example, the day in history when the fist balloon was flown in Ireland.
It's not remarkable for the gentleman it commemorates, but for the damage visible on the spur of his boot.
Was Psyche (black servants in Britain were often given classical names) a boxer, and is he here commemorated for his prowess in the ring?
So began the highly charged two-week process that would involve Bishop Carpenter of Alabama, one of the men to whom King had addressed his famous Letter from a Birmingham Jail; Jonathan Daniels, an Episcopal seminarian, now commemorated for his martyrdom in the church's calendar of saints, and a host of others who worked through struggle to accomplish God's vision on earth as it is in heaven.
