"In October 1969, at the National UNESCO Conference in San Francisco, John McConnell proposed a global holiday to celebrate Earth's life and beauty and to advance peace. Along with the celebration of life on Earth, he intended Earth Day to alert earthlings about the need for preserving and renewing the...

March 20th, known as International Day Without Meat or Meatout Day, was created to give up eating meat and thus killing animals at least one day a year, in order to promote a vegetable, fruit and cereal-based diet and to teach a healthy lifestyle and vegetarian diet as being friendly to the human body.

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There are seven official health-specific United Nations (UN) Days. One of them is April 2 – World Autism Awareness Day (WAAD). Many of us are not aware of the fact that people with autistic spectrum disorders surround us every day. April 2 is a great opportunity to find out more about them and their...

Many Christian denominations around the world every year observe Good Friday as a part of the Holy Week. It is a holiday commemorating an immensely important event for all Christians – the death of Jesus Christ. In the United Kingdom, Friday preceding Easter Sunday is a bank holiday. The date of Good...

Easter is one of the most important holidays of the year for most Christian denominations. It is the time of commemorating Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection. Although the whole week is called the ‘Holy Week’ on Easter, Sunday is a special day.

Easter Sunday, also called the Resurrection Sunday,...