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Sept. 12, 2011 Interfaith Event -Young Leaders on the World Stage: Cultivating Spirituality and Building a global Community. Saint Mary's College of California. More info...
Speech from The World Forum of Spiritual Culture, Kazakhstan |
Promoting diversity through the sacred
Patrick was inspired by the Great Mother to promote a sacred planetary vision that respects religious diversity and advances pluralism.
Patrick is dedicated to being a warrior for human rights, social justice, and pluralism. Through religion and spirituality he is bringing a new message of planetary consciousness on a global level that will alert the world to the sacredness of our connection with Divinity and with each other.
As humans we all share the same needs. We ask that you look past your cultural upbringing and have an acceptance and a willingness to understand other cultural beliefs. We often see only differences between people, even when they are from the same communities. Our human brains seek to segregate and classify everything to make sense of our world. But when we can focus on what we have in common and look to the underlying similarities in cultural practices, we can connect on the level as members of a large global family. Tolerance and compassion for differences between people may lead us to understanding one another, a new way of looking at life, and a vision that brings us closer to world peace. Join us on our quest for the tolerance and compassion of these differences and holding sacred everyone's religion.
Rev. McCollum & His Excellency, Taher Al Masri
Rev. Patrick McCollum meets with
prominent Middle Eastern leaders and participates in Arab – Israeli dialogues toward peace
in Palestine and the Middle East.
July 27, 2011 Amman, Jordan:
Rev. Patrick
McCollum had the rare opportunity to meet with His Excellency, Taher Al Masri,
President of the Jordanian Senate and former Jordanian Prime Minister at his
home in Amman, Jordan. The meeting
took place at the end of weeklong dialogues with youth and adults from Israel,
Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and other countries, for which Patrick
served as one of the speakers and dialogue facilitators. Read more... 
October 17, 2010 Patrick at the World Forum of Spiritual Culture. MCCollum addressed the Kazakhstan Parliment, and people from all over the world about the importance of nature, the interconnectedness of all life on earth, and the importance of diverse spiritual points of view working together to stop the destruction of the earth and her resources. He also gave input into the development of the Noosphere Ethical Ecological Constitution for Mankind. Read more here.
Dhammakaya Temple Rev. Patrick McCollum traveled to Thailand this February where he has been honored by Buddhists with the title: World Inner Peace Ambassador. Patrick was an honored guest at a gathering of over 150,000 Buddhist monks from around the world at the Dhammakaya temple in the Pathumtani Province. His trip will included spiritual meditation, sharing of Pagan ritual and practices, and meetings with Buddhist Lamas to work together on world peace. Read More
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Patrick receiving The Mahatma Gandhi Award for the Advancement of Pluralism awarded at the capitol in Washington, DC by the Hindu American Foundation.
Official Statement from Patrick on Ninth Circuit Ruling “The employment discrimination ruling is especially disturbing and is one that all religious people should be worried about, not only Pagans. It creates precedent that gives the state the power to discriminate on the basis of religion for chaplain jobs, for example chaplains in prisons, hospitals, the veterans’ administration, and the military. The court ruled that the state could choose to prefer some religions over others, even when (as the defendants in my case admitted and the court noted) those religions are chosen for no reason at all – are not based on any criteria. Read more here... 
In May, Patrick traveled to Kathmandu, Nepal on a humanitarian project supported by the United Nations NGO, Children of the Earth, the Hindu American Foundation, The Patrick McCollum Foundation, with additional support by the Pagan Alliance of Berkeley, CA. This project led support to a series of schools and an educational program for under privileged youth in Katmandu, and in the village of Halambu, and in other outlaying regions of Nepal. Together with other Children of the Earth board members, Patrick helped planned an educational conference for about 200 Nepalese teachers, some of whom traveled by foot many miles to come to the conference in Kathmandu. Patrick also participated as a speaker and dialogue facilitator.
In addition, also had the honor of meeting with interfaith leaders from Nepal, to discuss ways we can work together to form alliances toward the advancement of religious pluralism, the acceptance of diversity, planatary sustainability, and world peace. Read the blog here. |
Five State Sanctioned Faiths Policy In 2009, Reverend McCollum made history, by receiving support from a vast interfaith contingency who signed on to an Amicus Brief for the United States Court of Appeals, supporting his challenge to the state of California'a infamous Five State Sanctioned Faiths Policy. Read more |
