Conscience

• Sarahi Espinoza Salamanca ’24 has been selected as a 2024 Knight-Hennessy Scholar, a prestigious graduate program that prepares students to be purposeful leaders who address our world’s important challenges.
• An ethnic studies and sociology double major, Espinoza Salamanca joins 90 new scholars representing 30 countries and 45 graduate degree programs in Stanford’s seventh cohort.
• Espinoza Salamanca is SCU’s third Knight-Hennessy Scholar, joining Hayley Raquer ‘16 and Jasmyn Burdsall ’20 who won in 2018 and 2021, respectively.
• Espinoza Salamanca was named to Negocios Now “Latinos 40 Under 40” Class of 2024 in the Silicon Valley/San Francisco Bay Area and the Forbes “30 under 30: Education” in 2016.

• The submission includes access to testimonial evidence gathered and recorded by the CFTJ that corroborates the alleged policy of genocide being planned, instigated, and implemented by President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan, including their Parliament.
• This is the first case of any entity lodging a case at the ICC for genocide of Armenians, and it comes days before the April 24 annual commemoration of the World War I-era genocide in which Ottomans killed 1.5 million Armenians.
• "The ICC should send a clear message that there will be no impunity for such crimes and those responsible for genocide will be held accountable."
• Aliyev himself said as top officials in Baku celebrated the forced displacement of Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh.

• A Muslim student at Michaela School in London has lost her High Court challenge against the school’s ban on prayer rituals.
• The school argued that the ban was put in place to avoid prayers “undermining inclusion”.
• But permitting religious diversity is a tradition in education in England.

Understanding secularism

• Michaela School has two-week holidays over the Christmas and Easter periods, and names them for these Christian festivals.
• The school week is Monday to Friday, which does not impinge upon the Christian day of rest.
• This is a version of secularism that benefits the members of one religion but not another.
• The state’s burgeoning financial involvement in education was accompanied by a pluralist approach to minority religions and denominations.

Matters of conscience

• It contained a conscience clause, allowing non-Anglican parents to withdraw their children from religious instruction.
• The end of Empire and the 1948 Nationality Act brought migrants to Britain from the Indian subcontinent.
• By the mid-1960s, Muslim children began to appear in schools in sufficient numbers that they were able to campaign collectively for the accommodation of their needs.
• And since the 1960s local education authorities and schools have accommodated Muslim needs within the same framework as those of Jews and Catholics.

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• This groundbreaking initiative marks a significant milestone in wellness support for first responders establishing a comprehensive approach to addressing moral injury through this pioneering public-private partnership.
• “We have worked closely with all levels within our fire and police departments to ensure R3’s impactful deployment,” said Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker.
• The AWA has also curated and underwritten a Culturally Competent Counseling program for both the fire and police departments.
• The program is run through the AWA and its network of counselors to assure the confidentiality of employees seeking counseling.