OMNIA'S IMPACT

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In Northeastern Nigeria, where Boko Haram is active, OMNIA's training helps clergy and lay religious leaders to work together to stop the growth of extremism and create economic opportunity. OUR IPTS are made up of Muslims and Christians working together in effective and powerful actions towards peace. Click on photo to learn more about our work in Nigeria

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Under the leadership of OMNIA Women’s Initiative Director Soraya Deen (right), more than 2,500 women in Nigeria and Sri Lanka are involved in Interfaith Peacemaker Teams. Click the photo to read their success stories.

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OMNIA President Rev. Dr. Shanta Premawardhana (left) confers with tribal leader in Gombe State, Nigeria. Wherever OMNIA goes, we build important alliances between religious, community, tribal, and political leaders. Today more than 75 communities in Nigeria, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, and the U.S. have worked with OMNIA leaders to organize for peace.

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Interfaith Dialogue matters, but effective action matters even more. In Sri Lanka, Bishop Kumara Illangasinghe (center) heads OMNIA’s Sri Lanka program, bringing together Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, and Muslim Leaders to form IPTs in communities wracked by violence. To date some ****** IPTs exist in Sri Lanka. Click the photo to learn more about OMNIA’s work in Sri Lanka.

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OMNIA’s training helps communities stabilize and offer economic opportunities for youth. This former Boko Haram Terrorist now runs a thriving barber shop. (OMNIA’s Rev. Abare Kallah is in the chair.) Click the photo to learn more.

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Whether it’s a warrior for peace, a prophetic theologian, a seasoned scholar, or an up and coming activist, OMNIA connects with the great minds of our time to inform, educate, and challenge others to be the leaders they’ve been waiting for. Click on photo to learn more about our series, “In Context.”

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When Ruth, a Christian, and Zuwaira, a Muslim, met at OMNIA’s IPT Training event, they decided to organize an interfaith women’s movement for peace. Today more than 2,000 women have mobilized to stop violence and teach their sons and daughters how to build power together. Click the photo to read their story.

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OMNIA STANDS WITH THOSE IN THE MARGINS

OMNIA’s method is to listen to, learn from, and stand in solidarity with those in the margins. It dismantles old, dilapidated top-down theologies, ideologies and cultural narratives that collude with oppressive power structures, and builds up fresh, relevant, experimental, and liberative ground-up ways of thinking and being.

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75+ OMNIA-TRAINED LEADERS IN THE U.S.

After 40 years of training hundreds of Christians for tough urban ministry, today OMNIA trains people of all faiths to build deep relationships and work together. It’s nothing like the interfaith dialogue you know. Our method is bold, deeply relational and focuses on building power, and powerful coalitions for strategic action for justice.

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