3
rd Annual
Interfaith Gathering
against Genocide:
Sunday, May 5, 2013, 3:00 & 4:15PM
Jointly sponsored by the
Greater Lowell Interfaith Leadership Alliance (GLILA)
& Glory Buddhist Temple, Lowell
3:00 PM: Short Preview from
Lost Child: Sayon’s Journey
4:15 PM: Interfaith Service
Glory Buddhist (New)
Temple, Lowell
153 Hale Street
(Corner of Cambridge Street)
Lowell, MA 01851
Focus on Cambodia:
Prayer, Healing, & Action
Also featured:
Khmer Refugee Survivor Stories from
More Than a Number,
a project of Light of Cambodian Children, Inc.
After the Service: Reception and Information/ Action Table
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Order of Events
3:00 PM
– Short Preview from Lost Child: Sayon’s Journey
and Slideshow on
More Than a Number (MTAN) Exhibit
–
Sopheap Theam, Curator
–
Kowith Kret
, Survivor, Sharing about More Than a Number (MTAN)
4:00 PM
– Interfaith Service against Genocide
After the service
– Reception with Information/ Action table (kitchen)
Interfaith Service against Genocide
In keeping with the solemnity of the service, we ask that all cell phones and other personal
electronic devices be turned off. Out of respect for the presenters, please, no flash photography.
We also ask that there be no applause.
Procession
– Members of the Greater Lowell Interfaith Leadership Alliance (GLILA) and
Other Participants
Opening Chant, Chamroeun Breah Barit
(Monks chanting to wish for the best in
humankind and to bless the living) –
Abbot Venerable Sambo Chhoum, Head Monk,
Glory Buddhist Temple, Lowell
–
Venerable Savoeun Chom, Monk, Glory Buddhist Temple, Lowell
Introduction to the Service
– Rabbi Dawn Rose, Ph.D., Rabbi, Temple Emanuel of the
Merrimack Valley, Lowell
Introduction to the Temple
– Vichhay Sok
, President, Glory Buddhist Temple, Lowell
Welcome and Hindu Prayer
– Tej Tanden, CoPresident,
GLILA, Om Temple, Billerica
Muslim Call to Prayer
– Hafiz Abdul Hannan, Muslim community of Lowell; Visiting Imam,
Waltham Islamic Society, Waltham
Survivor Testimony
– Brandon W. Eang, Graphic Design Teacher, Westford Academy
Poetry of Recovery
– Niem NayKret,
Community Health Worker, Lowell Community Health
Center
Mi Sheberach, Jewish Prayer
– Rabbi Dawn Rose, Ph.D., Rabbi, Temple Emanuel of the
Merrimack Valley, Lowell
–
Members, Temple Emanuel of the Merrimack Valley, Lowell
(For text and tune of “Mi Sheberach,” please see next page.)
Testimony, Christian Hymn, and Christian Prayer
– The Rev. Thysan Sam, D.Min.,
Cambodian Chaplain, Eliot Church, Lowell
–
Members, Christian Cambodian Community, Eliot Church, Lowell
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Invitation to Reception and Information/ Action Table
– Rabbi Dawn Rose, Ph.D., Rabbi,
Temple Emanuel of the Merrimack Valley, Lowell
Closing Chant
, Bang Sakol (Monks chanting to purify the ancestors’ and victims’ souls and to
wish for the better life in their re‐incarnation) –
Abbot Venerable Sambo Chhoum,
Head Monk, Glory Buddhist Temple, Lowell
–
Venerable Savoeun Chom, Monk, Glory Buddhist Temple, Lowell
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Khmer Refugee Survivor Stories from
More Than a Number
Exhibit
April 17, 2013, was the 38
th anniversary of the Khmer Rouge takeover of Phnom Penh,
Cambodia.
More Than a Number is a photo collection and traveling exhibit that includes T
(transit) number photos taken in refugee camps and holding centers, stories, poems, and
personal histories. Dance costumes from preand
postgenocide
years, as well as “Remember”
(portraits of S21
prisoners painted by Rachel Faller on rough silk) are also in the exhibit.
More
Than a Number
is a project of Light of Cambodian Children, Inc. This afternoon’s gathering
includes selections from the exhibit.
Reception with Information/ Action Table
Following the Interfaith Service against Genocide, you are invited to a reception in the temple
kitchen. An information/ action table will be available with literature and opportunities for
action provided by Amnesty International, Metta Health Center, and Lowell Community Health
Center.
Mission Statement of the Greater Lowell Interfaith
Leadership Alliance (GLILA)
The Greater Lowell Interfaith Leadership Alliance (GLILA) is open to and welcomes leaders
from diverse faiths within the Greater Lowell area. Our unity is based on our shared purpose of
building relationships of mutual respect among the members, the communities they represent
and area faith communities. Our mission is to broaden our understanding of faith traditions
and to support each other’s work and faith journey. Our commitment is to be a united force for
spiritual and moral leadership and cooperation within the Greater Lowell community and to
promote dialogue among faith traditions.
[http://www.glila.org/]
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GLILA Genocide Project Committee Members
Stephen Fisher
, Ph.D., Spiritual Psychologist, Healing Springs Counseling, Lowell
Sister Pauline LeBlanc
, s.c.o. Provincial Superior, Sisters of Charity of Ottawa; Secretary,
GLILA
Niem NayKret
,
Community Health Worker, Lowell Community Health Center
Rabbi Dawn Rose
, Ph.D., Chair, Genocide Project Committee; Rabbi, Temple Emanuel of the
Merrimack Valley, Lowell
The Rev. Thysan Sam
, D.Min., Cambodian Chaplain, Eliot Church, Lowell
The Rev. Imogene Stulken
, Protestant Campus Minister, UMass Lowell
Tej Tanden
, Om Temple, Billerica; CoPresident,
GLILA
Special Thanks to:
Abbot Venerable Sambo Chhoum
, Abbot and Head Monk, Glory Buddhist Temple, Lowell
Carol Gagne
, Director of Mission and Chaplaincy, Lowell General Hospital
Kowith Kret
, More Than a Number Exhibit; Member, Glory Buddhist Temple, Lowell; Voices of
Cambodian Children
, 91.5 WUML
Sidney Liang
,
Voices of Cambodian Children, 91.5 WUML; Jivit Thmei TV, South East Asian
Resources for Culture and Health (SEARCH), Lowell Community Health Center
Niem NayKret
,
Community Health Worker, Lowell Community Health Center
Sonith Peou
, Voices of Cambodian Children, 91.5 WUML; Jivit Thmei TV, South East Asian
Resources for Culture and Health (SEARCH), Lowell Community Health Center
Sayon Souen
, More Than a Number exhibit; Executive Director, Light of Cambodian Children,
Inc.
Sopheap Theam
, CoProducer,
Lost Child: Sayon’s Journey;
Curator, Light of Cambodian
Children, Inc.
Members
, Cambodian Christian Community, Eliot Church, Lowell
Members
, Glory Buddhist Temple, Lowell
Members
, Pawtucket Congregational Church, Lowell
Members
, Temple Emanuel of the Merrimack Valley, Lowell
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Convention on the Prevention and Punishment
of the Crime of Genocide
Adopted by Resolution 260 (III) A of the United Nations General Assembly
on 9 December 1948.
Article 2
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with
intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as
such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring
about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
[http://www.hrweb.org/legal/genocide.html, accessed 26 April 2013]
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