The following dates are listed on the Education for Justice website for the month of January.JANUARY 2006
Poverty in America Awareness Month (CCHD)
1 New Year’s Day
– World Day for Peace
– Solemnity of Mary
2-8 National Migration Week (USCCB)
6 Epiphany
8 Baptism of the Lord
9-12 Hajj (Annual Pilgrimage to Mecca, Islam)
11 Eid-al-Adha (Festival of Sacrifice, Islamic)
16 Religious Freedom Day
17 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
18 – 15 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
22 “Strangers No Longer: Together on the Journey of Hope,” (A Pastoral Letter Concerning Migration from the Catholic Bishops of Mexico and the United States, 2003)
27 Auschwitz death camp in Poland, liberation by Soviet troops, 1945
28 The Puebla Conference Document (Third Meeting of the Latin American Episcopal Conference, 1979)
29 Chinese New Year (Confucian/Daoist/Buddhist)
30 Gandhi’s Death, 1948
30-Feb 5 Catholic Schools Week
31 Thomas Merton’s Birth, 1915
– Islamic New Year
– January 2000: “A Renewed Church in Asia: A Mission of Love and Service,” Final Statement of the Seventh Plenary Assembly of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences
