Our 6th annual Ring Your Bell for Peace Day Zoom event, held the morning of September 22, 2025, on Zoom and at sites around Hawaii and beyond, is now available as a recording. We joined from temples, schools, workplaces, and homes to hear messages and music and to let our aspirations for peace resound through the sound of bells!
Two videos shared during the program have been removed from the recording since they are published on other channels, but we embed them below. The video above includes brief editor notes on when to pause and watch the embedded videos to match the flow of the actual event.
Program and “What Peace Means to Me”
Special Collection
This year’s event included a special collection for two nonprofit groups working in Gaza:
HEAL Palestine | https://www.healpalestine.org/
World Central Kitchen | https://wck.org/
100% of donations made to Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawaii for this special collection (minus any credit card or PayPal fees) will be split evenly between the two groups. There are two ways to donate. For online donations, visit:
honpahi.link/peacegive25
You may also send a check made out to “HHMH,” with “Peace Day Special Collection” in the memo line, to:
Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawaii
Attn: Peace Day Special Collection
1727 Pali Highway
Honolulu, HI 96813
Here is the graphic we shared during the program:
Event Photos
A few of the bell ringing sites of the scores that participated! (Ring Your Bell for Peace Day 2025)
Peace Day Banner with statue of Shinran Shonin at Hawaii Betsuin (Ring Your Bell for Peace Day 2025)
Hongwanji Hawaii's Peace Day Committee Chair, Rene Mansho, at Hawaii Betsuin (Ring Your Bell for Peace Day 2025, photo courtesy of Wendie Yumori)
Kahu Loko‘olu Quintero, Hawaiian Church of Hawaii Nei, opened our event by blowing the Pū (conch) and performing an oli. (Ring Your Bell for Peace Day 2025, photo courtesy of Cindy Alm)
Speakers Pastor Janet Morel, Dr. Warren Tamamoto, Joanne Tachibana, Maslyn Takeuchi, Guillame Maman, and Rev. Jigaku Takenouchi
Bishop Toshiyuki Umitani addresses those in the Hawaii Betsuin hondo and on Zoom. (Ring Your Bell for Peace Day 2025, photo courtesy of Cindy Alm)
Remaining Zoom participants pause for a vitural "group photo" after Ring Your Bell for Peace Day 2025
Ringing bells, Ramona Okumura award, Jake Shimabukuro, blowing the conch, "Think of Others" video, Axle Munoz
Rev. Char Kihara, Rimban Yuika Hasebe, Kahu Loko‘olu Quintero, and Bishop Toshiyuki Umitani before the Hawaii Betsuin altar after the conclusion of Ring Your Bell for Peace Day 2025. (Ring Your Bell for Peace Day 2025, photo courtesy of Wendie Yumori)Please join us next year at the 2026 Ring Your Bell for Peace Day!