A non-Muslim, he was motivated not by religious faith but compassion, the event heard.
Billed as a "Civil Forum on Leadership and Compassion," the McCain/Obama event will occupy a prime slot: five to seven on a Saturday night.
In 2008, Emily served on the Executive Team for Seeds of Compassion, a global event with the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu that gathered 150,000 people and contributed to the current worldwide compassion movement.
The extreme version of this involves a fundraising campaign to help the victims, at which point the media machine kicks into overdrive to transform compassion into an event... but I digress.
On April 13, Messiah College in Pennsylvania will be hosting a "Compassion Forum," an event at which Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will sit on the same stage and talk about "faith, values, and other current issues".
"We are urging the public to exercise a little compassion and boycott the event," said Delcianna Winders, a PETA activist who helps organize an event in New Orleans in which a roller derby team chases runners through the French Quarter, without any bulls involved.
At an event celebrating compassion, these people didn't seem very nice to each other.
What ensued was the largest outpouring of charitable donations, fundraising concerts, celebrity events, and compassion our world has seen.
Tectonics is on at Adelaide town hall from 4 to 5 March The Events Written in response to the violence unleashed by the white supremacist Anders Breivik in Norway in 2011, the Scottish dramatist David Greig's 2013 play The Events looks at compassion, anger and our compulsion to understand why people do the things they do.
As the Charter is launched, 135 events focusing on compassion are taking place all over the world.
