Seven photos of bell ringers from Zoom videos arranged in a collage

Ring Your Bell for Peace Day: Video Recording and More

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...

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2025 Peace Day in Hawaii Event Invites the World September 22

August 3, 2025 Contact: Rene Mansho, (808) 291-6151 Registration: Visit the online form at https://bit.ly/PeaceDay2025 or request a form from Rene Mansho, (808) 291-6151 or renemansho@hawaii.rr.com. Registration Requested By: Sept. 18, 2025 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2025 PEACE DAY IN HAWAII EVENT INVITES THE WORLD SEPT. 22ND; CANADA, US MAINLAND STATES,...

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youth wearing mask rings the bonsho bell at Wahiawa Hongwanji with words "Ring Your Bell for Peace Day"

Press Release: “Ring Your Bell for Peace Day”

NEWS RELEASE – for immediate release September 9, 2020 Contact: Catherine Tarleton CatherineTarleton@gmail.com, 808-339-8903 RING YOUR BELL FOR PEACE DAY HONOLULU, Hawaii – In celebration of Peace Day, Monday, September 21, the Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawai‘i invites the world to join in a mass ringing of bells — virtually...

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Thousands of origami peace cranes with Makawao Buddhist Temple sign

Hongwanji celebrates Peace Day throughout the Islands

Honpa Hongwanji temples throughout Hawaii are celebrating and preparing to celebrate Peace Day 2019. September 21 is both the UN-designated International Day of Peace and Peace Day Hawaii. In 2007, it was youth from Honpa Hongwanji’s Junior Young Buddhist Associations who first promoted the idea of Peace Day Hawaii, officially...

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