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As annoying as the Covid-19 "plandemic" has been, it has served the useful purpose of revealing the advanced state of the apostasy of professing Evangelical Christianity. The material in this post provides an explanation for why Evanjellyfish have been so silent in the face of governmental abuses of power (such as the imprisonment of Christian pastors such as James Coates and Artur Pawlowski). The organization responsible for this project of alleged Christian compassion has been kind enough to publish the names of its partners and supporters, providing ample evidence that they comprise a cage of unclean birds (Revelation 18:2). Submitted for your approval, the following item, as posted by Kristen Parker on the website of the Christian & Missionary Alliance in Canada, June 10, 2021 (bold, links in original):
Love My NeighbourAt the time the above item was posted, there was abundant evidence that the "vaccines" were actually harming and killing people rather than helping them, and the evidence for that is greater now than it was then; readers are invited to research this for themselves. Professing Christians are promoting a procedure that is not only not helpful, but is weakening and killing the very neighbours whom they profess to love. Even if the vax weren't harmful, the Love My Neighbour project isn't at all about loving my neighbour in any sense of Christian compassion, but is actually about supporting the United Nations, as one can see after clicking on the links at Love My Neighbour's website. Submitted for your approval (bold, capitals, links in original):
A member of an Alliance church has developed a project to enable Canadians to express their appreciation for their COVID-19 vaccine by paying it forward to people in vulnerable populations around the world.
Sara Hildebrand, a member and worship leader at Toronto Alliance Church, is the project coordinator for the Love My Neighbour project “a national movement for global vaccine equity inspired by Millennium Kids and Canadian faith communities.” The project was inspired by Matthew 15, where Jesus feeds 4000 people with only a few loaves of bread and some fish. Hildebrand believes that if we all play a small role, we can make a big difference!
Many Canadians have had the privilege of receiving their first vaccine—and some have even received their second. Over 2 billion vaccines have been administered globally, yet still less than 1% of low-income countries have received their first dose.
Through the Love My Neighbour campaign, Canadians have an incredible opportunity to express their gratitude for the vaccines that we will receive by gifting vaccines to vulnerable populations around the world through UNICEF. Through a $25 donation, you can gift a 2-dose vaccine to a global neighbour. This includes: the vaccine, transport, cold-chain protection, health worker training, and safe disposal of needles and waste.
Love My Neighbour wants to see every Canadian gift a $25 donation to vaccinate another individual. With approximately 38 million Canadians, we would be able to work together to help end the pandemic.
There are ways for cities, businesses, churches, families, teams, friend groups, individuals, and more to get involved with the Love My Neighbour Campaign. People are getting creative, and we encourage you to do the same!
At Toronto Alliance Church the quiz team raised donations for vaccines by running a fundraiser where they quoted all of the verses they’ve memorized in Matthew this year. Eight students and their coaches quoted over 1400 verses on a Sunday afternoon. They raised over $2500, providing over 100 vaccines to individuals in low-income countries.
Mayors are choosing to make their cities a Love My Neighbour city. They are encouraging their residents to get involved. Businesses are making donations on behalf of each of their employees. Churches are creating donation pages and encouraging and inspiring their members to increase their giving. There are classrooms that are learning about social justice who are raising donations and learning about their impact. An engaged couple has asked their guests to donate vaccines instead of give gifts! People across Canada are coming together to ensure that our global neighbours have the opportunity to be vaccinated!
June 11-13 the leaders of the G7 countries will be meeting for the UK G7 Summit. Their conversations will be focused on vaccines, and how we can work together to end the pandemic. Hildebrand is hopeful that Canada will make a commitment to return 10% of our vaccine doses to the global distributor of vaccines, COVAX, beginning now, so they can give them to low-income countries.
Ways to Get Involved:
Make a donation! $25 can change someone’s life.
Send a letter to your MP.
Share about the project with your church, employer, mayor, friends, family, team, or anyone you can think of!
Love My Neighbour
The Project
Join Love My Neighbour, and help UNICEF provide COVID-19 vaccines to the world’s most vulnerable people.
Love My Neighbour is a national movement for global vaccine equity, inspired by Millennium Kids and Canadian faith communities, to raise funds to help increase equitable access and delivery of COVID-19 vaccines to vulnerable populations around the world.
Gift a 2-dose vaccine to a global neighbour with your donation of $25 CD, or split the cost with a friend.
This includes vaccines, per-person cost for transport, cold chain protection, health worker training, and safe disposal of needles and waste.
Global vaccination against COVID-19 is the biggest health project in our lifetime - and you can help! Our goal is to supply 38 million vaccines to our neighbours living in lower-income countries – that’s one for each grateful Canadian.
By donating or setting up a fundraiser, you’ll help write the ending of our global pandemic story. Thank you for joining us.
Media Kit
Background Information
Love My Neighbour is the national movement for global vaccine equity, inspired by Millennium Kids and Canadian faith communities. We are collaborating to tackle the biggest health project in our lifetime -- global vaccination against COVID-19 -- by increasing the equitable access and delivery of vaccines to vulnerable populations around the world. Our goal is to supply 38 million additional vaccines to our neighbours living in lower-income countries – that’s one for each grateful Canadian.
WHY
In Canada, we can wait in confidence with gratitude knowing our government has already procured enough vaccines for our entire population. Canadians will be vaccinated in 2021. But we know delayed vaccinations around the world could put everyone at risk of additional COVID variants for years to come. COVAX AMC was designed to supply COVID-19 vaccines to the poorest 92 low and low-middle income countries—more than half the world’s population. But the 1.3 billion COVAX doses planned for 2021 will protect less than 20% of our four billion global neighbours. COVAX AMC’s massive and ambitious vaccination plan will not sufficiently protect four billion living in the developing world, nor end the pandemic in 2021 – they need our help. Every Love My Neighbour donation will increase the number of vaccines delivered to our global family.
HOW
Love My Neighbour is partnering with UNICEF, faith communities, corporations, NGOs, community groups and individuals across the country to reach our goal. We are inviting Canadians to help supply additional vaccines for the world’s most vulnerable people. Every $25 donation helps fund everything needed for UNICEF to deliver a vaccine to people in the world’s hardest-to-reach places. This includes vaccines, per-person cost for transport, cold chain protection, health worker training, and safe disposal of needles and waste. Donations can be made through UNICEF at www.LoveMyNeighbourProject.org
Love My Neighbour is also inviting Canadian businesses to take up our corporate challenge to give one vaccine forward for each employee, and encourage employees to join the movement too.
KEY PLAYERS
COVAX, the vaccines pillar of the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator, is co-led by CEPI, Gavi and WHO – working in partnership with developed and developing country vaccine manufacturers, UNICEF, the World Bank, and others. It is the only global initiative that is working with governments and manufacturers to ensure COVID-19 vaccines are available worldwide to both higher-income and lower-income countries. The Gavi COVAX Advance Market Commitment (COVAX AMC) was created to procure COVID-19 vaccines for the poorest 92 low- and middle-income countries, as identified by COVAX, throughout 2021.
UNICEF is tasked with the global distribution and administration of the COVID19 vaccines procured by COVAX AMC. UNICEF’s global presence and expertise make UNICEF the only organization capable of delivering the vaccines equitably and on a global scale. Love My Neighbour funds will be used by UNICEF to procure and deliver up to 100 million additional vaccine doses above and beyond those supplied by COVAX.
Love My Neighbour is a Canadian national movement for global vaccine equity inspired by Millennium Kids and diverse faith communities across the nation to increase the number of COVID-19 vaccines distributed quickly and equitably in in low- and middle-income countries around the world. Love My Neighbour’s fundraising and advocacy gives our whole global family access to life-saving prevention measures.
MORE INFORMATION
Visit www.LoveMyNeighbourProject.org to learn more and join the movement for global vaccine equity.
Love My Neighbour Partners with UNICEF to Invite Every Canadian to Gift A Vaccine Forward
92 countries must settle for 20% vaccination coverage by the end of 2021
TORONTO, ON, May 5, 2021 – Love My Neighbour, a national movement for global vaccine equity, announced today in partnership with UNICEF Canada the launch of a project aimed at gifting forward 38-million COVID-19 vaccines to hardest-to-reach vulnerable neighbours living in 92 low- and middle-income countries – that’s one for each grateful Canadian. Inspired by Millennium Kids and Canadian faith communities, the Love My Neighbour project hopes to increase the equitable distribution of vaccines throughout the developing world to help end the COVID-19 pandemic.
As the world surpasses one billion administered vaccine doses with only 20-million delivered to African countries, UNICEF has called on high-income countries to consider donating at least 5% of their doses without delay.
One $25 donation funds everything needed for UNICEF to procure and deliver a two-dose vaccine – from the manufacturer to the arms of people in some of the world’s hardest-to-reach places. This includes the per-person cost to transport the vaccines, protect the cold chain, train health workers and safely dispose of waste. The project seeks to fund doses over and above the two billion doses expected from COVAX—the global mechanism for equitable access to COVID19 vaccines— in 2021.
“We hope every Canadian will agree that we can all play a role in ensuring that COVID-19 vaccines are affordable and accessible to all countries. We must be better neighbours,” said Sara Hildebrand, Executive Director of Millennium Kids and Project Coordinator of the Love My Neighbour project. “We want to cross the COVID-19 immunity line side-by-side and write this pandemic ending together.”
“Love My Neighbour has built an amazing multi-faith coalition who share a passion and commitment to vaccine equity, and to doing everything they can to bring the world to the other side of COVID-19,” said David Morley, President and CEO of UNICEF Canada. “UNICEF is so pleased to partner with Love My Neighbour and shares the hope that through this national movement we can help put an end to a pandemic that creates serious threats to children and families around the globe.”
About Love My Neighbour
Love My Neighbour is the national movement for global vaccine equity inspired by Millennium Kids and diverse faith communities to increase the number of COVID-19 vaccines distributed quickly and equitably in low- and middle-income countries, through fundraising and advocacy. Visit lovemyneighbourproject.org to learn more.
About Millennium Kids
MILLENNIUM KIDS creates opportunities for and with Canadian children and youth to help Canada keep its United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals promise to reduce global poverty, inequalities and care for the planet by 2030. Millennium Kids provides tools and amplifies the voices of children and youth to become lifelong active, engaged citizens for the common good—shaping the Canada they will inherit. Visit millenniumkids.ca to learn more.
About UNICEF
UNICEF is the world’s leading humanitarian organization focused on children. We work in the most challenging areas to provide protection, healthcare and immunizations, education, safe water and sanitation and nutrition. As part of the United Nations, our unrivaled reach spans more than 190 countries and territories, ensuring we are on the ground to help the most disadvantaged children. While part of the UN system, UNICEF relies entirely on voluntary donations to finance our life-saving work. Please visit unicef.ca to learn more.
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Contact:
Melody Lynch
melody@symmetry-pr.com
306.250.7235
Our Team
Project Coordinator
Sara Hildebrand | Founder/Executive Director, Millennium Kids
Executive Advisors
Rabbi Arthur Bielfeld | Rabbi Emeritus, Temple Emanu-El, Toronto
Michael Cooke | VP Students (Interim) at St Lawrence College; VP Academic Emeritus at George Brown College, Toronto
Patrick Flanagan | Bandleader; Singer/Songwriter; Social Development Advocate, NB
The Rev. Dr. Karen Hamilton | Former General Secretary, Canadian Council of Churches
Zul Kassamali | President, National Alliance for the Advancement of Pluralistic Societies; Vice Chair, Canadian Interfaith Conversation; President, Toronto Area Interfaith Council
Commissioner Christine MacMillan | Director, World Evangelical Alliance Global Human Trafficking Network; Chair, Micah Global; Member, United Nations Multi-Faith Council
Communications Team
Tina Kraulis | Strategic Communications & Events
Cynthia Innes | Management Communications Consultant
Emily Williams | Web Design
Alicia Wheatley | Graphic Design
Krystle Moilliet | Graphic Design
Anne Sophie Roy | French Translation
Irene Soquier | French Translation
Melody Lynch | Symmetry PR
Lisa Rusinek | Social Media
Karen Schenk | Iconium Media
Regan Neudorf | Graphic Design
Our Participants
The following faith communities and organizations are participating in LMN in a range of ways--from advocacy efforts, to writing about LMN in digital publications and/or spreading the word to their membership.
Anglican Church of Canada
Canadian Baptist Ministries
Canadian Council of Imams
Canadian Multifaith Federation
Canadian Rohingya Development Initiative
The Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada
ERDO (Emergency Relief & Development Overseas)
Faith of Life Network
G20 Interfaith Forum
H4Community
Hamilton Interfaith Peace Group
Human Concern International
International Development and Relief Foundation (IDRF)
Intriciti
Islamic Relief Canada
KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives | KAIROS: Initiatives oecuméniques Canadiennes pour la justice
La fondation Anne Sophie Musique | Anne Sophie Music Foundation
Mennonite Central Committee Canada
Mennonite World Conference
Millennium Kids | Enfants du millénaire
National Alliance for the Advancement of Pluralistic Societies
National Muslim Christian Liaison Committee
Ontario Zoroastrian Community Foundation
Penny Appeal Canada
The Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada
Presbyterian Church in Canada
Reform Jewish Community of Canada
The Salvation Army Canada
Sayeda Khadija Mosque
SymmetryPR
Toronto Board of Rabbis
Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations-Canada (UOSSM-Canada)
The United Church of Canada
WayBase
World Evangelical Alliance
Our Corporate DonorsIn looking at Love My Neighbour's home page, the reader will notice Millennium Kids listed with UNICEF as a partner. This blogger had never heard of Millennium Kids before seeing this, but following the links leaves no doubt that the organization has nothing to do with the Lord Jesus Christ and His kingdom, but is a project to brainwash children into supporting the agenda of the godless United Nations. If a movement is endorsed by Canadian environmentalist, former geneticist, and professing atheist David Suzuki, it's highly unlikely to be compatible with Christianity.
Jason Hildebrand Creative Arts
Progressive Contractors Association of Canada
Signpost Music/Steve Bell
Millennium KidsIn February 2022, a convoy of Canadian truckers travelled across the country to Ottawa to protest "vaccine" mandates. The federal regime of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau responded by invoking the Emergencies Act, basically declaring war on the Canadian people for daring to exercise their God-given and constitutionally-protected rights and freedoms. The move was rescinded a few days later, but the stain remains, and it's increasingly obvious to the country and the rest of the world that Mr. Trudeau's regime is a dictatorship. Despite this, the following letters from Love My Neighbour to the Prime Minister remain on the organization's website as of this posting; they haven't aged well. The perceptive reader will notice that Loving My Neighbour's idea of loving their neighbours involves funding their project with money forcibly taken from their neighbours (i.e., taxpayers); and what's loving about that? I'm not going to mention that the Trudeau regime's idea of supporting global health systems is to support abortion throughout the world.
Proudly endorsed by David Suzuki
"Today's children and all future generations will bear the brunt of the consequences of our ecologically destructive actions going on today. Millennium Kids are taking action to press our leaders to think about the kind of legacy we are bequeathing to coming generations. Thank you for your efforts to wake up those who are deciding on your futures." - David Suzuki
About Millennium Kids
Millennium Kids are urging everyone to join them in bold strategic action to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.
Backstory
I first learned about the precursor to the SDGs, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs 2000-2015) in November 2009. I remember my surprise that I had missed nine years of these historic and global anti-poverty goals (though I birthed our four kids since the adoption of the goals in September 2000). I was convinced that if Canadians knew Canada made this incredible promise in 2000 to “spare no effort” to fulfill the MDGs, in collaboration with 188 other nations, we would find a way to keep our promise. I also knew from my own children that school social justice clubs were spreading across our nation as social justice-mindedness increased in our youngest generation.
Justice and advocacy initiatives
Here are some of the creative ways Millennium Kids have increased awareness and advocated for the MDGs / SDGs across Canada:
Broadcast Millennium Kids public service announcements on national television networks
Recorded an MK anthem for our Download and Be Counted! campaign on the iTunes platform
Marked #1000DaysToGo on the MDGs with a student event at the Glenn Gould Studio, CBC Building, Toronto and a twitter campaign in collaboration with organizations in UK and Germany 2013
Delivered Millennium Kids MDG Petition to Parliament 2014 asking the House of Commons to keep Canada’s MDG promise and allocate the promised 0.7% of our Gross National Income to do so
14-yr-old Millennium Kid spoke at the Micah Summit on the MDGs at the UN Headquarters in NYC 2014
Nine MKs were invited to speak to MPs at an Alternative Committee Meeting on Parliament Hill about the urgency of keeping our MDG and 0.7% Official Development Assistance promises in 2015
Hosted a Live Below The Line $1.75 supper at Toronto restaurant The Depaneur to raise awareness of global extreme poverty
Canada-wide #ChalkYourSidewalk “.7%AID” campaign during the international Conference on Financing for Development in Ethiopia July 2015
Millennium Kids’ Lawn Signs calling 42nd Parliament to take action on poverty and climate
Encouraged children and youth to make handmade Welcome Cards for Syrian newcomer youth coming to Canada 2015-16 (40 MKs from 14 schools delivered 1600+ cards to Minister McCallum at Parliament Dec 9, 2015)
Millennium Kids participated in the United Nations Economic and Social Council Youth Forum 2015 & 2016
Vision & Mission
Vision
Millennium Kids are urging everyone to join them in bold strategic action to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (also known as the Global Goals).
Mission
Engaging the next generation to pursue the SDGs with passion.
Empowering youth to be SDG global partners.
Celebrating together our SDG successes.
Objectives
Increase awareness of the SDGs across generations
Catalyze innovative youth participation in fulfilling the SDGs
Mobilize tremendous public support for the SDGs
Celebrate citizen, organizational and government SDG efforts and accomplishments
Values
Hope, celebration, cooperation, generosity, courage, accountability, tenacity, integrity, diversity, equality, acceptance, kindness, and creativity.
Meet Our Director
Sara Hildebrand is the founder and director of Millennium Kids, a youth movement creating opportunities for youth to propel Canada forward to meet the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. She is passionate about encouraging youth to use their voice for justice and the common good in the public sphere. Sara received her JD from the University of Toronto Law School and was called to the Ontario bar in 2000.
She was the national coordinator for the Interfaith Millennium Development Goals Events initiative leading up to the 2010 G8 Summit. This initiative encouraged diverse faith communities to gather together with their Members of Parliament in ridings across Canada to express the urgency of meeting the MDGs by 2015. Sara has also worked as Crown Counsel in the Criminal Law Policy Branch for the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General. Sara was recently honoured as one of 100 Fantastic Canadian Christian Women Leaders for 2014. Sara lives in Toronto with her husband and four children.
The Sustainable Development Goals
The sustainable development goals as outlined on the United Nations website.
1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere
2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
10. Reduce inequality within and among countries
11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*
14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the
Global Partnership for Sustainable Development
Learn more about the Sustainable Development Goals at the United Nations SDG website.
Letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau----------------------------------------------------------------------------
May 7,2021
SENT VIA EMAIL
The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada
Office of the Prime Minister
Dear Prime Minister Trudeau,
Love My Neighbour (LMN) is a Canadian grassroots project founded by Millennium Kids and diverse faith communities to increase the number of COVID-19 vaccines distributed quickly and equitably in lower income countries. LMN has brought together Canadians of diverse faiths from across the country, united in our desire to see all people regardless of nationality, enjoy equitable access to life-saving COVID-19 vaccines. We encourage the Canadian government to join us in care for our neighbours through working for increased access to vaccines globally.
We recognize the efforts of the government to ensure fair and equitable access to vaccines for priority populations in Canada, as well as international financial support for COVAX. We also believe that Canada can play a greater leadership role to ensure vaccine equity, especially when it comes to prioritizing vaccine access for essential workers and the most vulnerable,around the world and here in Canada.
Canada has currently purchased enough vaccines to vaccinate Canada’s population many times over. Vaccine inequality will only prolong the global pandemic.
We urge the creation and rapid implementation of a re-distribution and donation plan of Canada’s purchased and committed vaccine doses, including doses purchased from COVAX,to COVAX.Following the example of countries like Norway, we urge an immediate minimum 5% donation of Canada’s vaccines to COVAX. The global response to the COVID-19 pandemic must betimely and equitable if it is to be successful.
We also encourage Canadian support for the temporary Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) waiver, presented to the World Trade Organization. This waiver will ensure that trade regulations and licensing do not impede the timely manufacture, distribution, and affordability of vaccines. Canada has maintained that it has not rejected this proposal, and it is studying the impacts of intellectual property regulations on vaccine manufacturing. While we affirm the importance of careful deliberation, we also urge a rapid response. Without the TRIPS waiver, many low-and middle-income countries may not have access to anywhere near sufficient vaccines before 2023, to say nothing of testing or medications for supportive care.
We also encourage Canada to continue to support global health systems strengthening through an increased Official Development Assistance budget, with funding specially designated for community-based health organizations, including those run by women.
Canada can lead the way in ensuring fair access, distribution and administration of the vaccine around the world. We would like to request a meetingwith you or your designate to discuss how we can work together towards achieving the goals outlined in this letter, including the development of a matching fund for any donations made towards the purchase of global vaccines, global vaccine delivery and health support systems.
Signed:
Anglican Church of Canada
Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples
Canadian Baptist Ministries
Canadian Council of Imams
Canadian Multi-faith Federation
Canadian Rohingya Development Initiative
Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada
Congrégation de Notre-Dame
Human Concern International
International Development and Relief Foundation (IDRF)
Intriciti
Islamic Relief Canada
KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives
La fondation Anne Sophie Musique
Mennonite Central Committee
Millennium Kids
National Muslim Christian Liaison Committee
Ontario Zoroastrian Community Foundation
The Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada/ Emergency Relief and Development Overseas
The Presbyterian Church in Canada Primates Fund for World Relief and Development Reform
Jewish Community of Canada
Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations-Canada
The United Church of Canada
Cc:
Hon. Chrystia Freeland, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance
Hon. Marc Garneau, Minister of Foreign Affairs
Hon. Karina Gould, Minister of International Cooperation
Hon. Mary Ng, Minister of International Trade
Hon. Patty Hadju, Minister of Health
Hon. Hon. Marco E. L. Mendicino, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship
Hon. Anita Anand, Minister of Public Services and Procurement
Hon. Erin O’Toole, Leader of the Official Opposition
Mr. Jagmeet Singh, Leader of the New Democratic Party
M. Yves-François Blanchet, Chef du Bloc Québécois
Ms. Annamie Paul, Leader, Green Party of Canada
Michael Chong, Official Opposition Critic for Foreign Affairs Conservative Party of Canada
Heather McPherson, New Democratic Party Critic for International Development
Jack Harris, Critic for Foreign Affairs New Democratic Party
Stephane Bergeron, Critic for Foreign Affairs Bloc Quebecois
Hon. Raquel Dancho, Official Opposition Critic for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, Conservative Party of Canada
Christine Normandin, Bloc Critic for Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship
Jenny Kwan, NPD Critic for Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship
Tracy Gray, Official Opposition Critic, Export Promotion and Trade, Conservative Party of Canada
Garnett Genuis, Official Opposition Critic, International Development and Human Rights, Conservative Party of Canada
Stéphane Bergeron, Bloc Critic for Foreign Affairs
Simon-Pierre Savard-Tremblay, Bloc Critic for International Trade
Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe, Bloc Critic for Francophonie and International Cooperation
Daniel Blaikie, NDP Critic for Export Promotion and International Trade
Thank You Letter to the PMIf the reader requires more proof of the unholy fellowships among professing Christians, apostate Christian bodies, non-Christian religions, and government, and that participation in Love My Neighbour by professing Christians is an act of disobedience and evidence of apostasy, the project's Interfaith Resources link provides it. Look carefully at the wide variety of religions involved; the reader may recognize, and may even be shocked, at the names on the list.
December 21, 2021
SENT VIA EMAIL
The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada
Office of the Prime Minister
Hon. Minister Karina Gould
Hon. Minister Harjit Sajjan
Dear Prime Minister Trudeau, Minister Gould and Minister Sajjan,
Thank you for the creation and support of the generous matching grant for global vaccine access through UNICEF Canada. We are grateful for the chance to demonstrate the compassion and concern Canadians of faith share for our global neighboursand the desire to ensure everyone is able to access life-saving vaccines. Across the country, Canadians held fundraisers, wrote songs, took part in bake sales, decorated pumpkins and sidewalks, buzz cut their hair, swam 7 km across LacSt-Pierre, requested vaccine donations in lieu of wedding and birthday gifts, and collaborated with their Scouts’ group, Girl Guides’ Unit, school, youth group, neighbourhood or faith community, in support of global vaccination efforts. Together with UNICEF Canada, we raised over $9.6 million to help fully vaccinate nearly 4 million people in low-income countries against COVID-19!
We recently learned that our unique partnership between 35 diverse faith organizations, Millennium Kids and UNICEF Canada has garnered the Association of Fundraising Professional’s 2021 Outstanding Foundation or Philanthropic Group Award. Thank you for being part of this award-winning collaborative effort! As we celebrate, we also remember the billions of people who still do not have access to vaccines. With the good news of vaccine approvals for Canadian children, we recognize the growing gap in vaccine access and supply between Canada and our global south neighbours, including kids around the world. And, with Canada’s privileged position comes an increased responsibility to ensure that everyone-adults, youth and children all over the world, have access to their right to a healthy and safe life. The new variant, Omicron, also reveals the need to close the global vaccine gap to keep everyone safe, in Canada and globally.
We would welcome the chance to meet and discuss how we, as faith organizations, can continue to work with the Canadian government to end the pandemic everywhere through a globalplan for equitable global vaccine access. Based on supplies, we could have comprehensive vaccine coverage of the world in 2022, but to do so we need a clear and financed plan that prioritizes the most vulnerable around the world. Canada is uniquely positioned to play a leading role, in multilateral spaces in which we sit, in the creation and implementation of a plan that includes support of the WTO TRIPs waiver on patents, vaccine dose sharing, and global health systems support.
As we have demonstrated through Love My Neighbour, Canadians of faith are eager to support you in your efforts. We look forward to meeting together to discuss how we can continue to work to end the pandemic everywhere, for everyone,in 2022.
Signed
Anglican Church of Canada
Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples
Canadian Baptists Ministries
Canadian Council of Imams
Canadian Multi-faith Federation
Canadian Rohingya Development Initiative
Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada
International Development and Relief Foundation (IDRF)
Intriciti
Islamic Relief Canada
KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives
La foundation Anne Sophie Musique
Mennonite Central Committee
Mennonite World Conference
Millennium Kids
National Association for the Advancement of Pluralistic Societies
National Muslim Christian Liaison Committee
Ontario Zoroastrian Community Foundation
Primates World Relief and Development Fund
Reform Jewish Community of Canada
Salvation Army Canada
World Evangelical Alliance
cc: David Morley, President, UNICEF Canada
Interfaith ResourcesSee also my posts:
Hope, Gratitude and Solidarity
A Message to Canadians from Religious Leaders in Canada in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
In spite of present sufferings, which can seem overwhelming at times, the flames of hope cannot be extinguished.
Let us witness hope to each other and so become beacons of light during these uncertain times.
Canadians are experiencing the devastating impact of COVID-19 in what has become a rapidly evolving crisis. Understandably, this crisis has brought about feelings of anxiety, apprehension and fear. Critical elements of our daily lives are being thrown into uncertainty: health, employment, financial security, recreational activities, as well as our ability to gatheras worshiping communities. In view of these difficulties, we as religious leaders wish to bring forward a message of hope, gratitude and solidarity to all people who call Canada home.
A Message of Hope
We draw hope from a variety of sources: from our religious beliefs, the love of our families, the relationships with friends and the work we do. Each of these, and others as well, provides rays of hope to our daily lives. Likewise, hope provides courage to face the burdens we bear and the ability to look onwards toward the dawning of a new day. In spite of present sufferings, which can seem overwhelming at times, the flames of hope cannot be extinguished. Love, which gives life its fullest meaning, continues to seek out the common good in spite of individual difficulties. Acts of kindness can bring us closer in spirit, despite the requirements of physical distancing. Let us witness hope to each other and so become beacons of light during these uncertain times.
Canada has gone through several difficult and painful experiences in its history. When current and former generations have responded to these challenges, many were empowered by unwavering hope as well as human and spiritual resilience. For religious believers, this hope takes on a special and unique dimension. It assures us of the caring embrace of the Creator, a sacred relationship sustained by prayer, and which flows into our human relationships whereby we care for one another and bear each other’s burden. Yet, hope brings for everyone a promise of renewal, even in the midst of human suffering. Hope assures us that this affliction too shall pass.
We draw hope from a variety of sources: from our religious beliefs, the love of our families, the relationships with friends and the work we do. Each of these, and others as well, provides rays of hope to our daily lives.
A Message of Gratitude
During this time of crisis, we as religious leaders wish to offer words of appreciation and gratitude. Health care professionals are providing unfailing and dedicated service under stressful and difficult circumstances. They provide for us a powerful witness of care, expertise and service in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
There is also the increased risk of exposure to infection along with other hardships being experienced by so many others. For instance, while the rest of society rightly heeds the precautions of physical distancing, many remain at work in grocery stores, pharmacies and factories. Students, the middle-aged, and those close to retirement are fulfilling a variety of essential front-line jobs in the supply chain, ensuring that stores remain open, shelves remain stocked, and goods are delivered so that others can have food, medicines and other essentials for their families and communities. We express a deep appreciation and gratitude for these workers.
Governments across Canada as well as religious leaders are bearing particularly heavy burdens in steering our communities through this calamity. It is comforting to see that in such demanding times, political differences are being set aside to serve the common good. This too is a witness of hope for Canadians. For all these acts of generosity and dedication, let us add our expressions of gratitude for the important work of the diverse leaders of our country.
A Message of Solidarity
We urge all people in Canada to listen and follow attentively the directions of our public health officials and government leaders. We, as religious leaders, pledge to lead by example. We all must act together in confronting this virus. While everyone is vulnerable during this crisis, let us not forget those in our society who, prior to COVID-19, were already vulnerable to health and social ailments. As religious leaders, we raise our collective voices to highlight the necessity for greater attention to the needs of the homeless, the incarcerated, the elderly and those already suffering from social isolation. We remember too those people, especially women and children who face abuse and violence, who are not safe at home and may suffer additional abuse and violence as stress increases. We must never overlook or exclude these groups from our planning, preparedness and response to this pandemic. We are particularly mindful of First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities, including isolated Northern communities, who were already facing pre-existing challenges and for whom the COVID19 outbreak could prove singularly devastating. Likewise, we need to remember the needs and vulnerabilities of the many refugees and migrant workers who have come to Canada seeking safety and security.
Charitable organizations in Canada will face greater challenges during this time of crisis and will need greater assistance from governments so as to continue their vital work. This is a time for human solidarity. We all need to pull together. It is essential to carry out the practical requirements to limit the spread of this virus. It is also important to maintain a posture of attentive caring towards our neighbour. This includes care and solidarity for the global community who face this crisis with far fewer resources than those accessible to Canada. This is a time for us to draw closer to God.
Religion and spirituality can indeed contribute to building people up, to providing a sense of meaning, inner strength, new horizons and openness of hearts. As religious leaders, we wish to emphasize, especially in times like these, the power and importance of prayer. We earnestly pray for healing, for the continued efforts to relieve human suffering, and for perseverance throughout these challenging times. As history records these moments for our country’s future, let us pray that, in the face of COVID-19, we respond with an abundance of hope, gratitude and solidarity, trusting in the loving and ever merciful God, the source of all hope.
Rev. Kenesha Blake-Newell
Itinerant Elder (Grant AME)
African Methodist Episcopal Church
Farhan Iqbal
Missionary
Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Canada
Rev. Shane B. Janzen
Archbishop
The Anglican Catholic Church of Canada
The Most Rev. Linda Nicholls
Archbishop and Primate
The Anglican Church of Canada
Rev. Fr. John Benjamin Vic Paradero, OMHS
Rev. Fr. Jose Mark John Jamili, OMHS
Apostolic Catholic Church of Canada
Rev. Wesley E. Mills
President
Apostolic Church of Pentecost of Canada, Inc.
His Grace Bishop Abgar Hovakimyan
Primate
Armenian Holy Apostolic Church Diocese of Canada
Mobeen Khaja, O Ont.
President
Association of Progressive Muslims of Canada
Kevin Schular
Executive Director
Baptist General Conference of Canada
Charles Mashinter
Executive Director
Be In Christ Church – Canada
Lee Nicholas-Pattillo
President
Canadian Association for Baptist Freedoms
MGen Guy J.J. Chapdelaine, OMM, CD, QHC
Chaplain General
Canadian Armed Forces
Rev. Dr. Terry G. Smith
Executive Director
Canadian Baptist Ministries
Dr. Peter Reid
Executive Minister
Canadian Baptists of Atlantic Canada
Rev. Tim McCoy
Executive Minister
Canadian Baptists of Ontario and Quebec
Rev. Rob Ogilvie
Executive Minister
Canadian Baptists of Western Canada
Dr. Adriana Bara
Executive Director
Canadian Centre for Ecumenism
+Richard Gagnon
Archbishop of Winnipeg, President
Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops
Elton Da Silva
National Director
Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches
Rev. Stephen Kendall, President
Pastor Peter Noteboom, General Secretary
The Canadian Council of Churches
Imam Mohamed Refaat Abo Onar
President
Canadian Council of Imams
Nina Karachi-Khaled
President of the National Board
Canadian Council of Muslim Women
Rev. David McGrew
National Director
Canadian Fellowship of Churches and Ministers
Pandit Roopnauth Sharma
President
Canadian Multifaith Federation
Zul Kassamali, Co-chair
Aileen Van Ginkel, Co-chair
Canadian Interfaith Conversation
Rabbi Reuven Poupko
Rabbi Baruch Friedman-Kohl
Rabbi Debra Landsberg
Rabbi Jonathan Infeld
Co-chairs
Canadian Rabbinic Caucus, an affiliate of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs
Beverly Shepard
Presiding Clerk
Canadian Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
Rev. Dr. David Hearn
President
The Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada
Rev. Ann Stainton
Moderator
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Canada
The Rev Dr. Darren Roorda
Canadian Ministries Director
Christian Reformed Church in North America
Elder Michel J. Carter
Elder John N. Craig
Elder James E. Evanson
Elder Michael R. Murray
Area Seventies
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Rev. Dr. Ian Fitzpatrick
National Director
Church of the Nazarene Canada
Kerry Richards
President, Canada East
Community of Christ
Rabbi Reuven P. Bulka, CM, Ph.D
Rabbi Emeritus and spiritual leader
Congregation Machzikei Hadas, Ottawa
Rev. Dr. David Schrader
National Pastor
Congregational Christian Churches in Canada
Netta Phillet
Coordinator
Edmonton Interfaith Centre for Education & Action
H.G. Anba Mina
Bishop Mississauga, Vancouver and Western Canada
H.G. Anba Makar
Bishop of Goshen, Egypt;
Papal Vicar in the Archdiocese of Toronto
H.G Abba Boulos
Bishop of Ottawa, Montreal, and Eastern Canada
The Coptic Orthodox Church in Canada
L.K. (Rev. Fr.) Messale Engeda
Head priest and Administrator
Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church of Canada
Dr. David P. Lavigne
Bishop
The Evangelical Christian Church in Canada
Bruce J. Clemenger
President
The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada
Dr. William Taylor
Executive Director
Evangelical Free Church of Canada
The Rev. Susan C. Johnson
National Bishop
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada
Tim Dyck
Executive Director
Evangelical Mennonite Conference
Rev. Steven F. Jones
National President
The Fellowship of Evangelical
Baptist Churches in Canada
Steve Falkiner
President
Foursquare Gospel Church of Canada
Bill Hall
President
Grace Communion International Canada
Philip Bryant
Executive Director
Grace Fellowship Canada
His Eminence Archbishop Sotirios
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Canada
Pandit Roopnauth Sharma
President
Hindu Federation of Canada
Rev. Paul McPhail
General Secretary
Independent Assemblies of God International Canada
Dr. Ronald A. Kuipers
President
Institute for Christian Studies
Halil Yurtsever
Intercultural Dialogue Institute
Brian A. Hawes
President
Interfaith Committee on Chaplaincy in the Correctional Service of Canada
Imam Ilyas Sidyot
Grand Mosque of Saskatoon
Islamic Association of Saskatchewan (Saskatoon) Inc.
Jennifer Henry
Executive Director
KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives
Naj Mankal
President
Islamic Centre of Southwest Ontario
Imam Zubair Sidyot
Lethbridge Muslim Association (Alberta)
Belle Jarniewski
President
Manitoba Multifaith Council
Rev. Dr. Isaac Mar Philoxenos Episcopa
Bishop, Diocese of North America And Europe
Mar Thoma Syrian Church
Doug Klassen
Executive Minister
Mennonite Church Canada
Zul Kassamali
President
National Alliance for the Advancement of Pluralistic Society
Muneeb Nasir
Co-Chair
National Muslim Christian Liaison Committee
His Eminence, Archbishop Irénée
Archbishop of Ottawa and Canada and the Archdiocese of Canada
Orthodox Church in America
Rev. Dr. David R. Wells
General Superintendent
The Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada
Rev. Terry W. Snow General Superintendent Pentecostal Assemblies of Newfoundland & Labrador The Rev. Amanda Currie
Moderator
The Presbyterian Church in Canada
Imam Irshad Unia
Prince Albert Muslim Association (Saskatchewan)
The Rev. Marijke Strong
Executive Secretary
Regional Synod of Canada
Reformed Church in America
Pascale Frémond
President
Religions for Peace Canada
Commissioner Floyd J. Tidd
Territorial Commander
The Salvation Army Canada and Bermuda Territory
The Most Rev. Zenji Nio
Abbot, Samurai Buddhist Temple & Museum
Tokyo, Japan & Bay Street Corridor, Toronto
Rabbi David Seed
President
Toronto Board of Rabbis
The Most Reverend Lawrence Huculak, O.S.B.M.
Metropolitan Archbishop of Winnipeg for Ukrainian Catholics in Canada
His Eminence, The Most Rev. Metropolitan Yurij (Kalistchuk)
Archbishop of Winnipeg and the Central Eparchy
Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada
Rev. David Rowley
General Secretary
The Union of French Baptist Churches in Canada
Rev. Brian K. Magnus
Bishop
The United Brethren Church in Canada
The Right Rev. Richard Bott, Moderator
Nora Sanders, General Secretary
The United Church of Canada
David Ruis
National Director
Vineyard Canada
Pastor Mike Stone
Executive Director
Vision Ministries Canada
Rev. Dr. Eric R. Hallett
District Superintendent, Central Canada District
The Wesleyan Church
Venerable Dr. Bhante Saranapala
West End Buddhist Temple and Meditation Centre
Jaskaran Singh Sandhu
Executive Director
World Sikh Organization of Canada
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July 5, 2022 update: Love My Neighbor is exemplifying Vox Day's second law of SJWs: They always double down. Despite increasingly overwhelming evidence that the Covid-19 "vaccine" is killing some people and making others seriously ill, LMN is pushing ahead with its pseudo-righteous efforts. The reader of the latter of the two following articles will notice that it makes no mention of the actual purpose of Love My Neighbour.
As reported by Matthew Neugebauer of Faith Today, June 24, 2022 (links in original):
While Canada’s COVID-19 vaccination rate is currently at 86 per cent, the rate of those in poorer countries who have received at least one dose is only 17.8 per cent, according to OurWorldInData.org.As reported by Sharon Chisvin of the Winnipeg Free Press, July 2, 2022:
Christine MacMillan, a senior advisor with the World Evangelical Alliance, says this low rate is primarily about the socioeconomic conditions that prevent people from getting vaccinated, even more than the physical availability of the vaccines.
She offers the example of wage labourers considering if they can take time off to get vaccinated. “It’s their daily work for daily food. They couldn’t afford to take a few hours off work.”
Enter activist Sara Hildebrand, who started a Canadian interfaith campaign to support vaccine access in low-income countries. The Love My Neighbour campaign highlights the need for vaccine equity, encourages churches and other community groups in awareness-raising efforts and provides a donation portal directly to UNICEF’s GiveAVax program.
Hildebrand, known for founding the youth movement Millennium Kids in support of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, says the new vaccine campaign has employed everything from special Sunday collections to inspiring sermons to youth arts and crafts projects and even a Bible Quiz-a-thon to raise funds and awareness. She encourages donors to “pay forward” the vaccine doses that Canadians receive for free through public healthcare, asking for symbolic contributions of $25.
At time of writing, Love My Neighbour has raised over $750,000.
The campaign formally includes several familiar Christian groups including The Alliance Canada (formerly Christian & Missionary Alliance), Salvation Army Canada and The Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada/Emergency Relief and Development Overseas.
David Adcock, head of ERDO, serves on Love My Neighbour’s advocacy committee, which recently made a submission to a federal parliamentary committee urging the Canadian government to increase vaccine access and support the World Trade Organization waiver on patents for COVID-19 vaccines.
Other participants in the campaign include musician Steve Bell’s record label Signpost Music and the World Evangelical Alliance, with MacMillan contributing as an executive advisor connecting Love My Neighbour to the United Nations and UNICEF. She says her membership on both the World Evangelical Alliance’s UN Mission and the UN’s Multi-Faith Advisory Council are key assets to the campaign.
MacMillan, who previously led The Salvation Army in Canada and Bermuda (and did a stint in Papua New Guinea), says evangelical involvement in the movement for global vaccine equity is inspired by the way “Jesus acknowledged, while He was here on earth, the vulnerable, those who were considered in some ways castaways by society.”
Hildebrand, a lifelong member of The Alliance Canada, similarly looked to the gospel accounts for motivation to start Love My Neighbour, especially the story of the five loaves and two fish.
“What great plans might the Creator have to bless where all we see is vaccine shortage?” she asks on the “Our Story” section on the organization’s site. “To love our neighbours as ourselves, shouldn’t we pass on [“pay forward”] every second vaccine available to us?”
Winnipeggers may have recently noticed more than the usual number of lemonade stands set up in neighbourhoods across the city. That’s because those lemonade stands are among the micro-fundraising, youth-oriented initiatives being encouraged by Love My Neighbour (LMN), a national, multi-faith movement devoted to global COVID vaccine equity.
Sara Hildebrand, a Toronto lawyer and social activist, was inspired to create LMN early last winter after reading in scripture about Jesus miraculously feeding 5,000 people with only five loaves of bread and two fish. That parable led her to question vaccine availability and accessibility in Canada, in comparison to poorer countries, and to begin researching what the United Nations was planning for its vaccine rollout in the developing world.
“I learned about the international partnership, COVAX, and its ambitious plan to provide one billion COVID vaccines doses for 500 million of the world’s poor,” Hildebrand says, “(but) I couldn’t shake the simple math calculation that only 12 per cent of the poorest half of the globe would have access to this lifesaving vaccine in 2021 according to COVAX’s plan.”
Finding that fact unacceptable, Hildebrand — who is also the founder of the social justice and advocacy organization Millennium Kids — reached out to multi-faith advisers and acquaintances across the country with the idea of organizing Canadians to pay forward their receipt of free vaccines with vaccines to lower-income nations. Upon receiving an overwhelmingly positive response from those she contacted, Hildebrand organized an inaugural Zoom meeting with more than two dozen faith and NGO leaders in order to put her plan into action.
“We shared our deep discomfort with finding our country at the front of the vaccine queue while so many global neighbours might wait years to receive their vaccine,” Hildebrand says. “As faith communities, this was a social inequity we were not prepared to live with.”
LMN, which launched publicly in May, currently enjoys the support of 37 Canadian religious communities and organizations. These include churches, synagogues, mosques and parochial schools, all of which are raising awareness about or funds for the organization and its cause.
In Winnipeg, the Manitoba Islamic Association has already raised thousands of dollars in partnership with Islamic Relief Canada to purchase vaccines for Yemen and India, while the Home Street Mennonite Church fundraised for vaccines under the auspices of the Mennonite World Conference’s LMN campaign. The local church also decorated its walls with people-shaped cut-outs as a means of keeping track of the number of individuals overseas who received vaccines as a result of the congregation’s generosity.
Congregation Etz Chayim, a conservative synagogue in Winnipeg’s North End, is also becoming increasingly involved with LMN.
“I plan to encourage members of CEC to get involved with LMN’s newest fundraising campaign,” says Rabbi Kliel Rose, the synagogue’s spiritual leader.
“In addition, I intend to encourage our members to utilize the LMN Jewish resources online.”
Those online resources, developed by a group of rabbis from across Canada, feature sermon materials, a conversation guide, classroom resources, a video, a petition and a call to action, and can be used by any faith community.
Rose also continues to meet virtually with other local and national LMN representatives and religious leaders to discuss additional ways in which Canadians can help alleviate vaccine inequity.
“The world needs people of faith, people of justice and compassion to arise, to say not on our watch, and then, with feet on the ground, to act together,” Hildebrand emphasizes.
“Collective advocacy for global vaccine equity has been a defining feature of LMN right from the beginning,” she adds.
Whether that advocacy takes shape as a sermon, a petition or a lemonade stand, it sends a message and makes a difference. The purchase of a glass of lemonade for a couple dollars on a sunny summer day in Winnipeg means someone somewhere in the developing world will receive two doses of a COVID vaccine that could save their life. And that’s rewarding and refreshing news for everyone.
Well researched and informative.
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