July 5, 2024, World Tribune

The following essay by Ikeda Sensei was translated from the Feb. 11, 2000, issue of the Soka Gakkai’s daily newspaper, Seikyo Shimbun. John F. Kennedy said, “A man does what he must—in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures—and that is the basis of all human morality.” Today, Feb. 11,

Immaculate Mutebi, of New York, discusses how chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo helped her use the obstacles in her family, workplace and housing to deepen her conviction in the power of her life. Click here to listen. July 5, 2024, World Tribune, p. 4

by Mitch BogenSpecial to the Tribune  On May 10, the Ikeda Center hosted a multigenerational forum devoted to the cause of education for nuclear disarmament. With speakers and discussants ranging from student activists to veteran figures in the global disarmament movement, the event kindled fresh hope for a future free of nuclear weapons.   The

Seeking my mission, I discover the way of life of a person of courage.

Toward the student division conference on July 26–29, 2024, at the Florida Nature and Culture Center (FNCC), the World Tribune sat down with two youth leaders Manami Koizumi and Jiwoo Kim to hear about the impact that attending this conference had on their lives. World Tribune: Thank you for speaking with us today. What was

Toward the culture department conference at the Florida Nature and Culture Center (FNCC), the World Tribune sat down with Paige Asawa and Bora Colak, the SGI-USA Culture Department leaders, to learn about the group’s mission. World Tribune: Thank you for meeting with us. For our readers who may be unfamiliar with the SGI-USA Culture Department,

SoCal-Pacific Territory’s first Soka Family Day at Soka University of America inspires future division members to have a dream.

The Rev. James Lawson, the leading nonviolence theorist and tactician of the American Civil Rights Movement, passed away on June 9 in Los Angeles. He was 95. In the 1950s, he spent three years in India as a Methodist missionary and studied Mahatma Gandhi’s philosophy of nonviolence. He returned to the U.S. to attend graduate

Rivers throughout the world form at their ends triangular deltas, where the mouth of the river breaks into smaller streams that feed into oceans and seas. The Okavango Delta, however, breaks out into open land in Botswana’s Kalahari Desert. As the seasons change, so does the delta, its banks flooding and receding with the rain,