Source: Christian Today, August 16, 2016<\/p>\n
Churches and mosques in Nairobi are being painted a vibrant shade of yellow to demonstrate a \u201cshared humanity\u201d and highlight that there is more that unites people of different faiths than divides them.<\/p>\n
The Colour in Faith<\/a> initiative was launched in 2015 by Colombian-American artist Yazmany Arboleda, who wanted to find a way to cross \u201clanguage, religion, ethnicity, and politics,\u201d which so often cause sectarian divides.<\/p>\n \u201cThe goal was to take houses of worship in Kenya and paint them yellow in the name of love,\u201d he told The Guardian<\/a>. \u201cThe idea from the beginning was to turn buildings into sculptures that speak to our shared humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n So far more than 20 houses of worship have signed up, and three have already been painted\u2014a mosque, a church, and a Hindu temple.<\/p>\n Arboleda says the act of painting the buildings has brought different communities together. \u201cTo see people smile and talk to each other is beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00bb See full story<\/a> with pictures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Christian Today, August 16, 2016 Churches and mosques in Nairobi are being painted a vibrant shade of yellow to demonstrate a \u201cshared humanity\u201d and highlight that there is more that unites people of different faiths than divides them. The Colour in Faith initiative was launched in 2015 by Colombian-American artist Yazmany Arboleda, who wanted … Continue reading KENYA: Churches and Mosques Repainted to Demonstrate Shared Humanity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6582,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6581\/revisions\/6582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}