Walk for Peace Observes Sept. 11 Anniversary

Members of the Greater Cincinnati community are invited to join UC Campus Ministries on an Interfaith Walk for Peace beginning at 10 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 11 at the Islamic Association of Cincinnati, located at 3668 Clifton Avenue, and ending at McMicken Commons on campus at the University of Cincinnati. Buses at UC will transport walkers back to their parking locations.

The Rev. Paul Sittason Stark, campus pastor for the Wesley Foundation, says the walk will hold sacred texts from the many faith traditions located along Clifton Ave., as well as prayers for peace.

Stops along the way will include Clifton United Methodist Church; St. John’s Unitarian Universalist Church; St. Monica/St. George Parish;  the Cincinnati fire station at Clifton and Ludlow; Hebrew Union College; UC Lutheran Campus Ministry; UC American Baptist Campus Ministry; Collegiate Campus Ministry (UC’s Southern Baptist ministry); the Wesley Foundation United Methodist Student Center and Hillel Jewish Student Center. Parking will be available at the Islamic Association of Cincinnati and at St. John’s Unitarian Universalist Church at 320 Resor Ave. 

Interfaith Peace Vigil Marks Sept. 11

Overnight Vigil will precede interfaith peace walk up Clifton Avenue

Graduates from the UC School of Social Work, along with dozens of Cincinnati citizens, will be reaching out to those attending an overnight vigil to remember the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The vigil, “Giving Expression to Our Hearts and Voices,” will take place from 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 10 through 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 11, at St. John’s Unitarian Universalist Church in Clifton, located at 320 Resor Ave.

The vigil, open to the public, is sponsored by St. John’s Unitarian Universalist Church, Clifton United Methodist Church, and the Peace Village coordinated by UC Social Work Professor Steven Sunderland. The vigil will have music, meditation, interfaith readings, poetry and opportunities to create Posters 4 Peace, an initiative Sunderland first started to promote healing after the Cincinnati riots in 2001.