Current Projects
Newsletter
We offer a quarterly newsletter to connect and communicate with our coalition members. Please sign-up here to receive a copy by email.
Monthly and Quarterly Meetings
Individual coalition members can join our planning meetings on the second Monday of each month from 4 to 5 pm Pacific Time. Click this link to join our next meeting. Representatives from coalition member organizations receive invitations and reminders to join our quarterly meetings to launch coalition-based campaigns and initiatives. To join our coalition as an individual or member organization, please contact us.
Brochures
Help us spread the word about our coalition in your faith community! You can download the following brochures or contact us to receive them by mail: Interfaith Vegan Coalition, 10 Steps to Bring Vegan Values to Your Place of Worship, From Vegetarian to Vegan, Vegan Spirituality.
Advocacy Kits
Our faith-based vegan advocacy kits provide resources for you to veganize your place of worship. If you don’t see a kit that represents your tradition, contact us to assemble one.
List of Vegan Churches and Pastors
We compiled a list of vegan churches and pastors in cooperation with All-Creatures.org. Please share our list and contact us to add more vegan churches and pastors.
Sermon/Spiritual Presentation Contest
We hosted our first Sermon/Spiritual Presentation Contest on the topic of compassion for all beings and awarded contest winners in 2023. Religious, spiritual, and lay applicants delivered their presentations live and/or online before a religious, spiritual, or community group. Seasoned leaders and new voices from diverse backgrounds and wisdom traditions were encouraged to apply in two categories: how your faith/practice supports a vegan lifestyle and how your faith/practice embraces compassion for all animals. Winners in both categories received an award and a cash prize of $500 based on these contest guidelines. We announced the winners of the contest during the Vegan Convergence of the Peoples (V-COP 15).
- Share the Winning Sermons: www.idausa.org/sermoncontest
- Post our 2 min Video Compilation
- Read the Media Release and Blog
- Watch the Sermon Contest Award Ceremony
Homo Ahimsa Award
Our Interfaith Vegan Coalition grants a Homo Ahimsa Award to people who embody the Homo Ahimsa qualities of nonviolence and compassion for all beings. Homo Ahimsa Award recipients show others how vegan living can co-create a world of peace, partnership, and lovingkindness by ending violence and domination to people, animals, and the earth. We honor our Homo Ahimsa Award recipients:
- 2021: Climate Healers founder/executive director Dr. Sailesh Rao and his granddaughter Vegan World 2026 founder Kimaya Rainy Rao
- 2022: Australian philanthropists Philip and Trix Wollen of the Winsome Constance Kindness Trust
- 2023: Wayne Hsiung and Priya Sawhney, co-founders of the animal liberation organization Direct Action Everywhere and The Simple Heart
Golden Rule Day
As a Compassion for All Animals Partner with the Charter for Compassion, we participate in Golden Rule Day on April 5 each year. The Charter for Compassion hosts a global livestreaming event on Golden Rule Day to celebrate and promote the spiritual message of the Golden Rule. Watch the replay of our panel on The Golden Rule and Compassion for All Animals from Golden Rule Day 2023, which reached thousands of nonvegan attendees around the world with our message to extend compassion for all animals by going vegan.
Parliament of the World's Religions
The first Parliament of the World’s Religions convened in 1893 to cultivate harmony among the diverse religious traditions worldwide. Now the Parliament is heralded as the world’s premier interfaith conference with over 7,000 global attendees.
We changed hearts and minds at the 2018 Parliament of World Religions, where we co-sponsored the first-ever vegan banquet hosted by the Charter for Compassion. Parliament-goers picked up our vegan advocacy kits to share with their religious communities, perused a religion and animals museum exhibit, and watched a video on veganism and spirituality. We had inspiring conversations about veganism and compassion for all beings at our booth, visited by 8,000 Parliament patrons. Watch this video about our Parliament experience!
In 2023, we presented over 25 vegan sessions at the Parliament, hosted a popular booth in the Climate Village, marched with our "Vegan is Love," banner in the Parade of Faiths, and arranged a vegan menu for the Charter for Compassion's annual banquet.
A Prayer for Compassion Film
Our Interfaith Vegan Coalition encourages everyone to watch the profound film by Thomas Jackson, A Prayer for Compassion, to encourage people of faith to embrace veganism. The film chronicles the formation of our coalition, along with interviews from worldwide spiritual leaders who share why all religions support compassion for animals.
As a follow-up to watching the film, we're helping filmgoers start Compassionate Living Circles (CLC) to promote veganism at their places of worship. Please complete this form to start a CLC. Contact us to receive vegan resources for your community of faith, including our new Veg Starter Guide.
Calendar
Whole Planet Spirituality Forum & Retreat: October 17 - 20, 2024
We're sponsoring a vegan retreat with live streaming options on October 17 - 20, 2024 at Unity Village in Kansas. The retreat program is still under development. Once it's ready, you can discover more and register here. Workshops include Interfaith Vegan Coalition co-founders Lisa Levinson and Judy Carman. Retreat-goers will enjoy a viewing of our traveling exhibition, Animals and Religions, curated by Dr. Lisa Kemmerer.
Parliament of World Religions: 2026
Stay tuned for details on the next Parliament of the World's Religions in 2026! Our Interfaith Vegan Coalition is actively working to ensure the Parliament is a vegan event, with an animal ethics track, that features a vegan speaker on the main stage. Join our efforts to put veganism on the map in the global interfaith community!