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ST. NIKOLAI OF JAPAN AND THE SAMURAI | Draw the Life of a Saint
ST. NIKOLAI (NICHOLAS) OF JAPAN AND THE SAMURAI | DRAW THE LIFE OF A SAINT
St. Nikolai (Nicholas) of Japan, Equal-to-the-Apostles, wanted to convert the Japanese people to Orthodox Christianity but arrived in Japan during a time when Christianity was outlawed. The incredible, true story of St. Nikolai is one full of samurai, emperors, and saints!
(This video illustrates St. Nikolai’s life in a “draw my life” style.)
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Saint Nikolai Kasatkin and the Orthodox Mission in Japan: A Collection of Writings by an International Group of Scholars about St. Nikolai, His Disciples, and the Mission edited by Michael Van Remortel and Dr. Peter Chang
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ST. NIKOLAI (NICHOLAS) OF JAPAN AND THE SAMURAI | DRAW THE LIFE OF A SAINT
Regarding the Foreigner
People from many nations have come to your city and most of them will not come to your church. How will you “regard the foreigner?” You could begin with inviting them to your home.
(Leviticus 19:34)
Feature on increasing number of homeless in Greek capital
(12 Nov 2011)
1. Wide of Galini Food Bank of soup kitchen as homeless people are eating
2. Mid of kitchen
3. Close up of food being prepared
4. Mid of cook leaving kitchen carrying bread
5. Close up cutaway of Greek Orthodox religious icons
6. SOUNDBITE: (Greek) Georgia Alexiou, Food Bank Cook:
We are come here from very early in the morning. We cook whatever food we have, lentils, beans, chickpeas, meat, whatever we have. We have 250 portions, and whatever else we have or it's left we prepare it for the next day.
7. Mid of food being passed out, zoom in
8. Mid of priest chanting prayer before lunch
9. Mid of Dimitris Chelmis, homeless man praying
10. Mid of volunteer serving Dimitris
11. Close up of Dimitris as he eats
12. Wide of interior of Galini Food Bank
13. Mid cutaway of list of homeless receiving aid
14. Wide exterior of Galini Food Bank with homeless entering as man writes name
15. Mid of Dimitris walking
16. Cutaway of Dimitris rolling cigarette
17. SOUNDBITE: (Greek) Dimitris Chelmis, homeless Man: ++Standing in front of the place where he sleeps++
This is the quietest place (Laughs) it provides safety that is if you can call this safe at night. And I sleep with two other people, we each protect each other- even if this seems strange. There is nothing else here. In the morning I start early. I can't stay here all day.
18. Mid of Dimitris sitting next to another homeless person in the area where he sleeps
19. Wide of Dimitris and another homeless person
20. Wide of Dimitris walking down the street
21. Wide of bridge where Dimitris sleeps
STORYLINE:
With unemployment rising sharply in Greece, more people are finding it hard to keep a roof over their heads.
The number of homeless people has risen in Athens during the last two years of austerity measures and increased unemployment, which has risen above 18 percent, has played its role in this phenomenon.
Church-run centres like Galini- which literally means calmness - in downtown Athens are providing relief by giving to the homeless warm meals and temporary shelters.
Father Ignacius chants the prayer before the food is served to the homeless everyday.
Today's delicacies include fried chicken along with rice and bread as well as yoghurt for desert.
We cook whatever food we have, lentils, beans, chickpeas, meat, whatever we have, one of the Galini cooks, Georgia Alexiou says.
We have 250 portions, and whatever else we have or it's left we prepare it for the next day, she adds.
Most of the people that are given food in Galini which is run by the Greek Orthodox church, are Greek nationals.
The homeless are having a much harder time as winter approaches. The temperature in Athens has started to gradually descend and on Saturday it dropped to nine Degrees Celsius (44 Fahrenheit).
Former dancer Dimitris Chelmis visits the centre for a plate of warm food every day.
Chelmis was a traditional folk dancer, but has been on and off work since 2008. He has been homeless for a year now.
Before that Chelmis used to dance in banquets and weddings, getting paid at least 70 Euros (100 US Dollars) for every performance. He owned a house and had a family. His daughter is now 19 years old. Both her and his ex wife do not know that he is homeless.
Chelmis, a regular of the Galini Shelter in downtown Athens, spends most of his day wondering aimlessly until nightfall.
He then joins a community of homeless people who seek shelter under a bridge, close to the metro station of the area of Keramikos in Athens, a very upcoming neighbourhood, full of restaurants and cafes.
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Episode 2 – The Island of Tears
EPISODE 2 - THE ISLAND OF TEARS
Learn about IsraAID, a non-profit organization and their commitment to providing lifesaving disaster relief, including to displaced Syrians who wash ashore on the island of Lesbos.
TO LIFE: HOW ISRAEL VOLUNTEERS ARE CHANGING THE WORLD
INTRODUCTION: Discover Israel's national tradition of humanitarian service and good works—and learn why a nation so small is having such a tremendous global impact. It’s the story you won’t see in the news.
THE INSPIRING STORY OF HOW ISRAELI VOLUNTEERS ARE CHANGING THE WORLD!
Since its founding in 1948, Israel has provided humanitarian aid to millions of people in 140 countries. To Life looks at five Israeli organizations dedicated to helping people in the Jewish tradition of Tikkun Olam(Repairing the World).
With stunning cinematography and moving interviews, To Life follows Israeli volunteers in Uganda, Nepal, Greece, Kurdistan, and the Palestinian Territories to discover how Israel is fulfilling ancient prophecy by being a light to the nations today.
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“To Life will forever change how you see the nation of Israel—not as a thorn in the side of the Middle East but as a lifeline to those who are suffering around the world. This documentary should be shown everywhere—from the United Nations to the church on every corner in America.”
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Borderless (2019) | Official Documentary
Let's try this again... After six months on the ground I'm thrilled to present #Borderless, the biggest & most comprehensive documentary ever made on the European border crisis.
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Sharper Focus/Wider Lens: A World on the Move: Refugees, Migrants and Immigrants
Filmed in the MSU Union Ballroom on February 6, 2017. Sharper Focus/Wider Lens A World on the Move: Refugees, Migrants and Immigrants featured Michigan State University faculty: Anna Pegler-Gordon, PhD, of James Madison College and the Asian Pacific American Studies Program; David Thronson, JD, of the College of Law; Sophia Koufopoulou, MA, of the Department of Sociology; Stephanie Nawyn, PhD, of the Department of Sociology and Center for Gender in Global Context; and Johanna Schuster-Craig of the College of Arts & Letters (German and Global Studies).
Pope Francis Reacts to the Latest Deaths of Migrants in the Mediterranean - ENN 2018-01-09
More than 60 migrants from Africa die in the Mediterranean Sea in the latest disaster involving immigrants. EWTN News Nightly Vatican Correspondent Juliet Linley tells us how the Pope reacted and why the Mediterranean is so dangerous.
Simonides Betrayed, Part 3: Uncle Benedict’s Plan
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The Ancient City of Tyre
This symposium explores on the ancient city of Tyre, founded in 2750 B.C. by the Phoenicians, who created an alphabet and the first democracy in the world with a parliament and senate elected directly by the citizens. Tyre is the legendary birthplace of Europa, the daughter of the King of Tyre, the namesake of Europe. The city and the civilization was left in ruins by Alexander the Great who went to war against the Tyreans.
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Aphrodite is an ancient Greek goddess associated with love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation. She is identified with the planet Venus, which is named after the Roman goddess Venus, with whom Aphrodite was extensively syncretized. Aphrodite's major symbols include myrtles, roses, doves, sparrows, and swans.
The cult of Aphrodite was largely derived from that of the Phoenician goddess Astarte, a cognate of the East Semitic goddess Ishtar, whose cult was based on the Sumerian cult of Inanna. Aphrodite's main cult centers were Cythera, Cyprus, Corinth, and Athens. Her main festival was the Aphrodisia, which was celebrated annually in midsummer. In Laconia, Aphrodite was worshipped as a warrior goddess. She was also the patron goddess of prostitutes, an association which led early scholars to propose the concept of sacred prostitution, an idea which is now generally seen as erroneous.
In Hesiod's Theogony, Aphrodite is born off the coast of Cythera from the foam (aphros) produced by Uranus's genitals, which his son Cronus has severed and thrown into the sea. In Homer's Iliad, however, she is the daughter of Zeus and Dione. Plato, in his Symposium 180e, asserts that these two origins actually belong to separate entities: Aphrodite Ourania (a transcendent, Heavenly Aphrodite) and Aphrodite Pandemos (Aphrodite common to all the people). Aphrodite had many other epithets, each emphasizing a different aspect of the same goddess, or used by a different local cult. Thus she was also known as Cytherea (Lady of Cythera) and Cypris (Lady of Cyprus), due to the fact that both locations claimed to be the place of her birth.
In Greek mythology, Aphrodite was married to Hephaestus, the god of blacksmiths and metalworking. Despite this, Aphrodite was frequently unfaithful to him and had many lovers; in the Odyssey, she is caught in the act of adultery with Ares, the god of war. In the First Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, she seduces the mortal shepherd Anchises. Aphrodite was also the surrogate mother and lover of the mortal shepherd Adonis, who was killed by a wild boar. Along with Athena and Hera, Aphrodite was one of the three goddesses whose feud resulted in the beginning of the Trojan War and she plays a major role throughout the Iliad. Aphrodite has been featured in western art as a symbol of female beauty and has appeared in numerous works of western literature. She is a major deity in modern Neopagan religions, including the Church of Aphrodite, Wicca, and Hellenismos.
Dionysus | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:43 1 Etymology
00:05:03 2 Origins
00:08:23 3 Epithets
00:12:00 4 Worship and festivals in Greece
00:12:28 4.1 Dionysia
00:14:03 4.2 Bacchic mysteries
00:16:05 4.3 Eleusinian mysteries
00:21:14 4.4 Orphism
00:23:23 5 Worship and festivals in Rome
00:23:34 5.1 Liber and importation to Rome
00:26:20 5.2 Bacchanalia
00:29:04 6 Post-classical worship
00:29:14 6.1 Late Antiquity
00:30:35 6.2 Worship from the Middle Ages to the Modern period
00:33:13 7 Identification with other gods
00:33:23 7.1 Osiris
00:35:42 7.2 Hades
00:39:39 7.3 Sabazios and Yahweh
00:43:02 8 Mythology
00:45:04 8.1 First birth
00:48:38 8.1.1 Interpretation
00:51:10 8.2 Second birth
00:56:57 8.2.1 Interpretation
00:59:13 8.3 Infancy
01:02:01 8.4 Travels and invention of wine
01:04:06 8.5 Return to Greece
01:06:39 8.6 Captivity and escape
01:08:36 8.7 Descent to the underworld
01:11:15 8.8 Secondary myths
01:11:24 8.8.1 Midas' golden touch
01:12:52 8.8.2 Other myths
01:14:31 9 Lovers and offspring
01:14:41 10 Iconography
01:14:50 10.1 Symbols
01:18:36 10.2 In classical art
01:22:06 11 Post-classical culture
01:22:16 11.1 Art from the Renaissance on
01:24:45 11.2 Modern literature and philosophy
01:27:29 11.3 Modern film and performance art
01:29:20 12 Parallels with Christianity
01:29:39 12.1 Death and resurrection
01:30:26 12.2 Trial
01:31:18 12.3 Sacred food and drink
01:32:05 12.4 Other parallels
01:34:06 13 Gallery
01:34:15 14 See also
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Dionysus is the god of the grape-harvest, winemaking and wine, of fertility, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theatre in ancient Greek religion and myth.He is also known as Bacchus ( or ; Greek: Βάκχος, Bákkhos), the name adopted by the Romans and the frenzy he induces is bakkheia. His thyrsus, sometimes wound with ivy and dripping with honey, is both a beneficent wand and a weapon used to destroy those who oppose his cult and the freedoms he represents. As Eleutherios (the liberator), his wine, music and ecstatic dance free his followers from self-conscious fear and care, and subvert the oppressive restraints of the powerful. Those who partake of his mysteries are believed to become possessed and empowered by the god himself.In his religion, identical with or closely related to Orphism, Dionysus was believed to have been born from the union of Zeus and Persephone, and to have himself represented a cthonic or underworld aspect of Zeus. Many believed that he had been born twice, having been killed and reborn as the son of Zeus and the mortal Semele. In the Eleusinian Mysteries he was identified with Iacchus, the son (or, alternately, husband) of Demeter.
His origins are uncertain, and his cults took many forms; some are described by ancient sources as Thracian, others as Greek. Though most accounts say he was born in Thrace, traveled abroad, and arrived in Greece as a foreigner, evidence from the Mycenaean period of Greek history show that he is one of Greece's oldest attested gods. His attribute of foreignness as an arriving outsider-god may be inherent and essential to his cults, as he is a god of epiphany, sometimes called the god that comes.Wine played an important role in Greek culture, and the cult of Dionysus was the main religious focus surrounding its consumption. Wine, as well as the vines and grapes that produce it, were seen as not only a gift of the god, but a symbolic incarnation of him on earth. However, rather than being a god of drunkenness, as he was often stereotyped in the post-Classical era, the religion of Dionysus centered on the correct consumption of wine, which could ease suffering and bring joy, as well as inspire divine madness distinct from drunkenness. Performance art and drama were also central to his religion, and its festiva ...
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Dionysus (; Greek: Διόνυσος Dionysos) is the god of the grape-harvest, winemaking and wine, of fertility, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theatre in ancient Greek religion and myth. Wine played an important role in Greek culture, and the cult of Dionysus was the main religious focus for its unrestrained consumption. His worship became firmly established in the seventh century BC. He may have been worshipped as early as c. 1500–1100 BC by Mycenaean Greeks; traces of Dionysian-type cult have also been found in ancient Minoan Crete. His origins are uncertain, and his cults took many forms; some are described by ancient sources as Thracian, others as Greek. In some cults, he arrives from the east, as an Asiatic foreigner; in others, from Ethiopia in the South. He is a god of epiphany, the god that comes, and his foreignness as an arriving outsider-god may be inherent and essential to his cults. He is a major, popular figure of Greek mythology and religion, becoming increasingly important over time, and included in some lists of the twelve Olympians, as the last of their number, and the only god born from a mortal mother. His festivals were the driving force behind the development of Greek theatre.The earliest cult images of Dionysus show a mature male, bearded and robed. He holds a fennel staff, tipped with a pine-cone and known as a thyrsus. Later images show him as a beardless, sensuous, naked or half-naked androgynous youth: the literature describes him as womanly or man-womanish. In its fully developed form, his central cult imagery shows his triumphant, disorderly arrival or return, as if from some place beyond the borders of the known and civilized. His procession (thiasus) is made up of wild female followers (maenads) and bearded satyrs with erect penises; some are armed with the thyrsus, some dance or play music. The god himself is drawn in a chariot, usually by exotic beasts such as lions or tigers, and is sometimes attended by a bearded, drunken Silenus. This procession is presumed to be the cult model for the followers of his Dionysian Mysteries. Dionysus is represented by city religions as the protector of those who do not belong to conventional society and he thus symbolizes the chaotic, dangerous and unexpected, everything which escapes human reason and which can only be attributed to the unforeseeable action of the gods.He is also known as Bacchus ( or ; Greek: Βάκχος, Bakkhos), the name adopted by the Romans and the frenzy he induces is bakkheia. His thyrsus, sometimes wound with ivy and dripping with honey, is both a beneficent wand and a weapon used to destroy those who oppose his cult and the freedoms he represents. As Eleutherios (the liberator), his wine, music and ecstatic dance free his followers from self-conscious fear and care, and subvert the oppressive restraints of the powerful. Those who partake of his mysteries are possessed and empowered by the god himself.The cult of Dionysus is also a cult of the souls; his maenads feed the dead through blood-offerings, and he acts as a divine communicant between the living and the dead. He is sometimes categorised as a dying-and-rising god.In Greek mythology, he is presented as a son of Zeus and the mortal Semele, thus semi-divine or heroic: and as son of Zeus and Persephone or Demeter, thus both fully divine, part-chthonic and possibly identical with Iacchus of the Eleusinian Mysteries. Some scholars believe that Dionysus is a syncretism of a local Greek nature deity and a more powerful god from Thrace or Phrygia such as Sabazios or Zalmoxis.
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Pope says mass before departing for Syria
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Pope John Paul II celebrated mass in an Athens basketball arena on Saturday morning.
Security for the event was very tight and the invitation-only crowd were ordered to leave their handbags, sandwiches and mobile phones at the gates.
The arena will be part of the complex which will be used for the 2004 Olympic Games.
An estimated 16-thousand people attended the mass and holy communion.
It was a relatively small crowd, as Catholics are a very small minority in Greece.
The pope urged Greece's tiny Roman Catholic community to carry his message of reconciliation to the Orthodox Church by showing a passion for unity to include all Christians.
Many of the congregation were not from Greece.
A large group of Poles, some in national dress, greeted the holy father as he arrived.
There were also a number of Filipinos, Russians and other foreigners living in Greece.
In keeping with Greek tradition, Pope John Paul kissed an icon held out to him by one of the local priests.
The visit to Athens was part of a personal pilgrimage to sites associated with St. Paul.
The pope spoke in French, while his sermon was translated into Greek.
After the mass, John Paul left for Damascus in Syria, where he will stay until Tuesday when he continues his journey to Malta.
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Greek temples (Ancient Greek: ναός, translit. naós, lit. 'dwelling', semantically distinct from Latin templum, temple) were structures built to house deity statues within Greek sanctuaries in ancient Greek religion. The temple interiors did not serve as meeting places, since the sacrifices and rituals dedicated to the respective deity took place outside them, within the wider precinct of the sanctuary, which might be large. Temples were frequently used to store votive offerings. They are the most important and most widespread building type in Greek architecture. In the Hellenistic kingdoms of Southwest Asia and of North Africa, buildings erected to fulfill the functions of a temple often continued to follow the local traditions. Even where a Greek influence is visible, such structures are not normally considered as Greek temples. This applies, for example, to the Graeco-Parthian and Bactrian temples, or to the Ptolemaic examples, which follow Egyptian tradition. Most Greek temples were oriented astronomically.
Between the 9th century BC and the 6th century BC, the ancient Greek temples developed from the small mudbrick structures into double porched monumental buildings with colonnade on all sides, often reaching more than 20 metres in height (not including the roof). Stylistically, they were governed by the regionally specific architectural orders. Whereas the distinction was originally between the Doric and Ionic orders, a third alternative arose in late 3rd century BC with the Corinthian order. A multitude of different ground plans were developed, each of which could be combined with the superstructure in the different orders. From the 3rd century BC onwards, the construction of large temples became less common; after a short 2nd century BC flourish, it ceased nearly entirely in the 1st century BC. Thereafter, only smaller structures were newly begun, while older temples continued to be renovated or brought to completion if in an unfinished state.
Greek temples were designed and constructed according to set proportions, mostly determined by the lower diameter of the columns or by the dimensions of the foundation levels. The nearly mathematical strictness of the basic designs thus reached was lightened by optical refinements. In spite of the still widespread idealised image, Greek temples were painted, so that bright reds and blues contrasted with the white of the building stones or of stucco. The more elaborate temples were equipped with very rich figural decoration in the form of reliefs and pedimental sculpture. The construction of temples was usually organised and financed by cities or by the administrations of sanctuaries. Private individuals, especially Hellenistic rulers, could also sponsor such buildings. In the late Hellenistic period, their decreasing financial wealth, along with the progressive incorporation of the Greek world within the Roman state, whose officials and rulers took over as sponsors, led to the end of Greek temple construction. New temples now belonged to the tradition of the Roman temple, which, in spite of the very strong Greek influence on it, aimed for different goals and followed different aesthetic principles (for a comparison, see the other article).
The main temple building sat within a larger precinct or temenos, usually surrounded by a peribolos fence or wall; the whole is usually called a sanctuary. The Acropolis of Athens is the most famous example, though this was apparently walled as a citadel before a temple was ever built there. This might include many subsidiary buildings, sacred groves or springs, animals dedicated to the deity, and sometimes people who had taken sanctuary from the law, which some temples offered, for example to runaway slaves.
Only a few days left....Love from Louisville (updated)
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The Compassionate City of Louisville is sending clothes, toiletries, and other basic necessities to families who have managed to escape and reach the shores of Greece. A growing group of volunteers is organizing drop-off locations around the city, and asking Louisvillians to donate gently used and new items as part of the Mayor’s Give a Day. The donations will be shipped to refugee camps run by the Jesuit Refugee Services, with whom we are in personal and continuous contact. The project was co-founded by 3 Center for Interfaith Relations board members, joined by Supplies Over Seas and Muslim Americans for Compassion and Fons Vitae book. UPS has agreed to send a small shipment of the most urgently needed items, but the refugees need more. We need your help to send a large shipping container full of supplies to the refugees in Athens. To donate towards the shipping container:
Timeline:
March 8: Mayor announces the project as part of the Give a Day effort
March 8-22: Collect, collect, collect! You can drop off your donations at any of the locations below.
March 24: Please drop off all items by this date (clothes folded and laundered) in unsealed boxes, and labeled with your name/organization and email address, if you wish to keep in contact with the project; schools, religious organizations, and businesses, etc. will be publicly acknowledged.
March 25-26: Volunteers will sort and pack the donations.
UPS will fly a shipment of the donations in the following days. More will follow by shipping container, including medical supplies donated by Supplies Over Seas.
What is Needed
- Jackets
- Clothing for the whole family
- Shoes
- Personal Hygiene Packs
- Soap
- Shampoo
- Shaving Cream
- Razors
- Toothpaste
- Toothbrushes
- Disposable Diapers
All items must be new or gently used, clothes laundered and folded, and placed in unsealed boxes.
Where & When to Drop Off
METRO LOUISVILLE FIRE HOUSES
West End
3228 Riverpark Dr. 574-3070
1135 W. Jefferson 574-1552
2500 Griffiths Ave. 778-9298
1824 Garland Ave. 776-9308
3401 Bohne Ave. 776-9310
Downtown
235 E. Jefferson 574-1561
617 E. Breckinridge 574-1562
1328 S. Preston 637-9592
1500 S. Sixth St. 637-9309
300 N. Spring St. 583-5678
South End
501 Ashland Ave 363-9205
1100 Grade Lane 363-9238
4535 Manslick Rd. 363-9428
3511 Fincastle Rd. 459-9814
2600 S. Fourth St. 637-9174
706 Kenwood Dr. 363-9563
East End
1025 Rubel Ave. 574-1546
2620 Frankfort Ave. 896-9291
3401 Dutchmans Ln. 458-9363
2900 Hikes Ln. 456-9765
1735 Bardstown Rd. 458-9383
ANCHORAGE
1400 Evergreen Rd. 245-6755
HARRODS CREEK
8905 US Hgwy 42 228-1351
NORTON COMMONS
Worthington Firehouse
8514 Featherbell Blvd 241-9366
ST. MATTHEWS
240 Sears Ave 893-7825
Supplies OverSeas
1500 Arlington Ave
Louisville, KY, 40206
Tel: (502) 644-897
Hours: M-F 9:00am-3:30pm
Muslim Americans for Compassion office
2903 Waldoah Beach Rd
Louisville,KY 40207
Contact: Farhan Abdi
Farhan@macus.org
502-653-9997
Hours: M-F 10:00am-2:00pm
Center for Interfaith Relations
415 W Muhammad Ali Blvd
Louisville, KY 40202
Hours: M-F 9:00am-5:00pm
New Beginnings Non-Denominational Church
1615 Spring St
Jeffersonville, IN 47130
Hours: Wed 5:00-8:00pm, Sat 11:00-3:00, Sun 9:00-12:00
Douglas Blvd Christian Church
2005 Douglass Blvd
Louisville, KY 40205
Hours: M-F 10:00am to 2:00 pm
Temple Congregation Adath
5101 US-42
Louisville, KY 40241
Crescent Hill Baptist Church
2800 Frankfort Ave
Louisville, KY, 40206
(502) 896-4425
Hours: M-F, 10-2
Temple Shalom
4615 Lowe Road
Louisville, KY 40220
502-458-4739
Second Presbyterian Church
3701 Old Brownsboro Rd
Louisville KY 40207
Hours: M-F, 8:30-4:30
To see firsthand the situation of those we are reaching out to, see the 2017 Academy Award-nominated documentary, 4.1 miles, about a coast guard captain on a small Greek island is suddenly charged with saving thousands of refugees from drowning at sea: