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Join the rapidly growing global compassion movement! CAN International currently focuses...

To vote or not to vote? That used to be the question. Last week, people across Pakistan ...

With Over 107,000 Volunteers, Acts of Compassion Annual volunteering event will return...

  The Compassion Games are designed to make communities safer, kinder, ...

Look younger! Feel more vibrant! Boost your stamina! Live longer! Those are the promises...

Sharmeen Obaid co-founded the Charter for Compassion office in Pakistan and won a 2012 A...

Feelings of fear and powerlessness are driving the cycle of violence that surrounds us. ...

The Charter for Compassion team in Pakistan has been collecting photos that convey condo...

by Heidi Grant Halvorson  Feeling stressed? Of course you are. You have too ...

In addition to Emmanuel Jal, you might recognize the following names: Adrian Grenier, ...

Date: February 23rd, 2013 - 00:00

Address: Paul Brest Hall, 555 Salvatierra Walk, Stanford, CA, 94305

  Many organizations embody compassion in their business and community practic...

Date: May 9th, 2013 - 00:00

Address: 25800 Carlos Bee Boulevard, Hayward, California, USA

Western Connecticut State University recently became a Compassionate University. This ca...

The Charter for Compassion reached Pope Benedict XVII in February 2013, just d...

You can now watch the inspiring TEDxChange webcast on demand that was shown at events ar...

Here’s my invitation to you: Let’s take a month and intentionally notice tho...

What can a small university do to mark a momentous occassion like a visit from His Holin...

Karen Armstrong has provided us with a way to address the conflict dominating the world ...

How do you illustrate compassion for a young child? HuffPo blogger Homa Savet Tavanger f...

This year's Dutch Compassion Award winner is Ambrose Ongwen. The award's ...

The good (and we do mean good) folks at Standford's Center for Compassion and Altrui...

Duane Elgin's article on the origin and the outcome of The Seattle Compassion Games ...

Date: November 29th, 2012 - 18:00

Address: Cubberley Auditorium, School of Education 485 Lasuen Mall, Stanford, CA 94305

Date: December 6th, 2012 - 00:00

Address: The New School John Tishman Auditorium 66 West 12th Street New York, NY 10011

"It takes dedication, hard disciplined work, and intensive training before a dancer...

Date: December 7th, 2012 - 13:45

Address: John Tishman Auditorium 66 West 12th Street New York, NY 10011

Recent events have put Pakistan in the spotlight. The shooting of schoolgirl activist&nb...

Another group of determined compassion activists have taken the cause to the streets -- ...

In Seattle, it's a countdown to the Compassion Games: Survival of the Kindest. First...

The U.S. news is brimming with discussions of compassion (or at least the terms often us...

The September 2012 issue of Parent Map has dedicated a significant number of pages ...

Let's talk about me. Or, rather let's talk about you. Self-compassion is an impo...

This just in: The Islamic Society of North America, the largest Muslim organization in N...

Our thoughts are with our friends in Gaziantep, Turkey, where a bombing killed 10 people...

From mentoring to fish conservation NPR's Participation Nation blog is dedicating Au...

Admit it. That voice inside your head is often your most scathing critic. Treating you...

Just what IS a compassionate city?  The Charter for Compassion is moving into a n...

Louisville has done it again! The compassionate city was voted "most livable city i...

If Charles Darwin and the Dalai Lama could chat, they would agree on why humans are comp...

In the wake of new attacks on shrines in Timbuktu, talk of religious intolerance is...

Bob Levine is research psychologist who studies cities worldwide, investigating just how...

Khairo Dero is very special. It is the world's first official Compassionate Village....

"Certainly great harm has been done in the past 100 years; two major world wars, nu...

Of course we all know that there are things one shouldn't say in cross-cultural cont...

Community leaders interested in helping greater Toledo and northwest Ohio attain the des...

Charter Partner Vinciance Rycroft of Mind with Heart blogs for The Huffington Post: As...

For the first time since the Nuremberg Trials a former head of state has been convicted ...

It is the 40th celebration of World Envirornment Day! Did you forget to send a card? Tha...

It's 10 pm somewhere -- do you know where the children are?  According to the...

Dr. James R. Doty, head of Stanford University's Center for Compassion and Altruism ...

Today, May 22, is International Biological Diversity Day! And, when one thinks biologica...

Date: November 23rd, 2012 - 00:00

Address: London, England

With Euro 2012 about to kick off the world is watching not only for grand displays of sk...

THIS JUST IN: I'll Have Another might have won the Kentucky Derby, but in inspi...

It seems like only yesterday, but it has been ten years since the United Nations put for...

The Pakistan Observer reports on an education workshop organized by University College o...

Moderate Imam Feisal Rauf  was turned into a radical ideologue in the eyes of those...

Memorial Day is a good time to commemorate and to contemplate.  A good starting p...

Earlier this month the Charter for Compassion Pakistan group launched an exciting new si...

Maurice Sendak often said he did not write books for children. He just happened to write...

Date: November 23rd, 2012 - 00:00

Address: Friends House 173 Euston Road, London, England

Students, teachers, and staff at Jaffar Public School do a one week compassionate action...

In the shadow of the steeple I saw my people,  By the relief office I seen my peop...

A seven-hour drive from Karachi, in the Sindh province of Pakistan, there is a rural far...

Karen Armstrong reflects on the divisions between the Muslim world and the West. "...

What happens when you bring together a bunch of neuroscientists, psychologists, educator...

Tori Murden McClure has never been one to shy away from a challenge. In fact, she’...

The Charter for Compassion-Jordan  has a significant list of accomplishments &mdash...

All around the globe, with the notable exception of the United States, May Day is a cele...

(Image below. Leaves from the Weeping Willow at the Central Synagogue in Budapest, each ...

It’s no secret that the notion of a world governed by a Charter for Compassion is ...

Compassion as the ability to restore the balance between humanity and efficiency. At T...

On November 10, 2009, CNN's Christiane Amanpour talked to Karen Armstrong and Rabbi ...

The children of one Wisconsin town illustrate the many facets of one simple word that ca...

The faith blog Beliefnet askes John Barry, editor in chief of Bible Study Maga...

The Buddhist magazine reviewsTwelve Steps to a Compassionate Life Tricycle: The Bud...

Many see compassion as the golden rule which forms the backbone of most major religions,...

Al Jazeera's talk show One on One spoke with Karen Armstrong on August 5, 2011, noti...

Karen Armstrong speaks with NPR about her book Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life. The...

Veteran interviewer Charlie Rose talks with Karen Armstrong about her book book Twe...

Karen Armstrong's guest blog for Newsweek's On Faith column: "...Compassi...

Ebo Patel, author of "The Faith Divide" blog at The Washington Post, reflects ...

In "Heed the call of compassion," published in the UK's Guardian, Desmond ...

Karen Armstrong writes on matters of faith, politics and history for the Guardian newspa...

There’s a common notion in the United States that Canadians are really nice, prete...

Since the world is interconnected as never before, Armstrong said “it’s a de...

THE GOLDEN RULE The words may be different, but the sentiment is the same:   ...

"When I heard that I won the TED prize, which gives you a wish for a better world, ...