Month: April 2022

Join with people around the world as this day promotes jazz’s roots and intercultural influence every 30th April. Many people consider jazz as “America’s classical music.” After all, jazz began in New Orleans over 100 years ago. Legendary jazz pianist…

Stop Food Waste day on April 28 aims to teach people ways to reduce food wastage. It’s crazy to think that around a third of the food produced on Earth goes to waste — either it’s lost or goes bad!…

It’s a breakthrough moment for the treatment of malaria. Just two days before World Malaria Day 2019, doctors in sub-Saharan Africa began immunizing children with the world’s first malaria vaccine. This is welcome news. Health experts predict the medicine could…

We love books, and our friends at UNESCO agree. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization proposed World Book Day as a day of celebrating the joy of reading for enjoyment. One hundred countries observe World Book Day, and…

For the past 50 years, Earth Day has been celebrated by billions of people around the globe, annually every April 22, to join together in promoting awareness for the health of our environment. Why should we continue to celebrate this…

More than one billion peoplespeak Chinese as their first language — that’s more than any other population in the world! UNESCO (part of the United Nations) first created Chinese Language Day in 2010 to celebrate Chinese as one of the…

Easter is the single most important holy day throughout Christianity. It celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ — a central belief for Christians worldwide and the focal point of their faith. Religious scholars believe the event occurred three days after…

Christians mark Maundy Thursday, which commemorates the Last Supper, every year on the Thursday before Easter, April 17.  It’s also known as Holy Thursday, Covenant Thursday, and the Thursday of Mysteries in various traditions. Maundy refers to the foot-washing Jesus…

Palm Sunday is the final Sunday of Lent, the beginning of Holy Week, and commemorates the triumphant arrival of Christ in Jerusalem, days before he was crucified. Palm Sunday is known as such because the faithful will often receive palm…