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Weekly News of SGI Around the World

Weekly News from SGI Around the World

PR News Media Watch < March 16 – March 22, 2019 >

Guitarist Chet Breau is ready to play after hitting rock bottom

CBC News Canada ‘‘Now or Never” program featured SGI Canada practitioner Lenny Chet Breau, who found himself in the hospital two years ago. He was then weighing 602 pounds and his body was shutting down from congestive heart failure.

SGI President Issues 2019 Peace Proposal

On January 26, 2019, the 37th annual peace proposal by Daisaku Ikeda, president of the Soka Gakkai International (SGI) Buddhist movement, was released, titled “Toward a New Era of Peace and Disarmament: A People-Centered Approach.”

Message from SGI Canada General Director

It has been just over two weeks since the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, and already another mass shooting has occurred in California.

SGI Theme for 2019

The SGI theme for 2019 has been announced as "Year of Soka Victory—Toward Our 90th Anniversary" Read More

Youth division launches official SGI Canada Instagram and Facebook page

To mark July 16, the day Nichiren Daishonin submitted his famous treatise, “On Establishing the Correct Teaching for the Peace of the Land,” the SGI Canada youth division has launch an official Instagram (@sgi_canada) and Facebook page (@sgicanadainfo).

Let’s Advance toward November 18 and beyond!

We are now advancing together across Canada as never before, with joyful Bodhisattvas of the Earth emerging in every corner of the country.

Joint Appeal to Youth for Resilience and Hope

On June 5, in Rome, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Adolfo Pérez Esquivel and Buddhist philosopher Daisaku Ikeda released an appeal to young people worldwide, calling for a new world built on justice and solidarity. Read More

Message of Condolence

On behalf of the members of Soka Gakkai International Association of Canada, I offer our most heartfelt condolences to the families and friends of the ten individuals who lost their lives and the fourteen individuals who were injured in Monday’s brutal and senseless attack in Toronto. To think of the lives that have been cut short and the pain caused to so many others is unbearable. We send our prayers to the innocent victims and to those who loved them.

We’re All Different: Musician Glenn Copeland on his journey as a Black, Buddhist, transgender artist

“The message of my Buddhist practice is, ‘Be courageous. You are exactly what is wanted. We’re all different,'” says Glenn Copeland musician and composer Glenn Copeland. John Harvey Negru talks to Copeland about his life as a pioneer in music, his fourty-four years of Buddhist practice in the Soka Gakkai tradition, and his mission for the future.