Planetary Liberation Day is to sensitize the world about the fundamental issues that distance human beings from true peace. The day is usually marked with workshops, seminars, symposia, public lectures, television and radio broadcast, all aimed at conscientising the world to address the fundamental issues that affects peace.

Since its inception in 2001, the themes have evolved around 3 major issues

1. Growing the empowered child (A formula for world peace)

2. Inter-Religious and Inter-Political harmony as a road to world peace.

3. Recreate the family as a formula or a road map for world peace

Growing the Empowered Child

This seeks to sensitize the world about the need to work towards the eradication of fear and anger.

Fear and Anger are problems common to everyone irrespective of their race, creed or culture. Peace treaties signed by people filled with fear and anger is nothing but the creation of time bomb.

If we can get the world to talk about the elimination of fear and anger, even if nothing is done about it, there would be reduction in fear and anger on the planet which will get us closer to peace. To the proportion that will reduce fear and anger, we get closer to peace.

In identifying these fundamental causes and working towards practical solution, Etherean Mission has developed a program called Growing the Empowered Child (A formula for world peace). This program is presently available to children who come to the Church and to children in some selected schools and the results are amazing. Not only do they heal children from psychological wounds they may be growing up with, they also help children to do better academically. This is what we call practical proactive approach to world peace.

Inter-Religious and Inter-Political Harmony as a road to world peace.

The second theme, Inter-Religious and Inter-Political harmony as a road to world peace is to address what we describe as the ‘common human needs.’ It is the need to live in peace, love with a sense of achievement.

What are the common human needs and how is the church or the political institutions seeking to address them?

It is a shame to think that each political party is seeking to address common human needs and yet they war and battle against each other.

Political conflict is more rife in religious bodies. Religion has become territorial with its rulers seeking to protect their possessions and rule. For these reasons religion, which is supposed to bring people together, is doing just the opposite.

We need to address and focus on the aim and objectives of religion, and not on the cultural practices (Cultural Environment) within which the religion is practiced.

At the heart of every religion they want the same basic things for humanity, for their followers and congregants. So the question is, ‘in what way do we come together to ensure that those basic needs are provided.’ Instead of focusing on those basic needs religion focuses on its dogma and the dogma separates people because the dogmas is created within certain cultural environmental needs.

For example, a person who lives in the desert, will see the need to cover his or her head from the dust. Covering the head will become part of their way of worship or cultural way of living. This then becomes a dogma that for you to experience your human needs, you must cover your head and may be imposed on people who do not even live on desert areas.

Recreate the family as a formula or a road map for world peace

The third theme, recreating the family is to address the real fundamental issues in families. Families are the unit blocks of society, community and the world at large. If we can heal the family then we heal the world.

In this program we address issues like Male female population disparity ratios and how these affect marriages, polygamy and monogamy, the dignity of women and especially and their influence on polygamy or monogamy.

For example we realize that if we have a world, where women outnumber men, there would always be a secret woman behind every marriage. It is about time the world woke up to it and address it because this secret woman means there would be no peace in the marriage which will result in children being raised with emotional and mental wounds and creating a confused world, a world of chaos.

Again, in this electronic age with the presence of computers, internet, television, radio and other print media, parent do not wholly own their children. Children receive desirable and undesirable information from the media. Parents need a new type of education to handle their wards.

If with the foundation of United Nations, its member states have been charged to include the eradication of fear and anger, the appreciation of cultural and religious differences and the promotion of family unity into their education curriculum, there would have been peace on the planet by now. If we start now, it will manifest in our lifetime.