{"id":74812,"date":"2022-06-21T13:29:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T11:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/humanismus.de\/news\/2022\/06\/world-humanist-day-humanism-needs-encounters\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T10:05:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T09:05:33","slug":"world-humanist-day-humanism-needs-encounters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humanismus.de\/en\/news\/message\/2022\/06\/world-humanist-day-humanism-needs-encounters\/","title":{"rendered":"World Humanist Day: Humanism needs encounters!"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"74812\" class=\"elementor elementor-74812 elementor-20688\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-349a94b1 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"349a94b1\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3a3fe15d\" data-id=\"3a3fe15d\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-13b51c96 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"13b51c96\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p>Christiane Friedrich, board member of the HVD Federal Association and state spokesperson for the <a href=\"https:\/\/humanismus.de\/en\/?page_id=41482\">Humanist Community in Hesse<\/a>, has written here about why encounters and exchange are essential for humanism:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/humanismus.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Christiane-Friedrich_privat-scaled-e1623839372700-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17282\" width=\"256\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/humanismus.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Christiane-Friedrich_privat-scaled-e1623839372700-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/humanismus.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Christiane-Friedrich_privat-scaled-e1623839372700-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/humanismus.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Christiane-Friedrich_privat-scaled-e1623839372700-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/humanismus.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Christiane-Friedrich_privat-scaled-e1623839372700-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/humanismus.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Christiane-Friedrich_privat-scaled-e1623839372700.jpg 1448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<em>What we have been missing for so long is finally possible again: Meetings, exchanges and get-togethers. Of course we could stay in contact with each other, talk to each other and see each other on screens. But digital contact is an incomplete substitute for real face-to-face encounters, where we can actually feel each other&#8217;s presence, perceive each other physically and interact with all our senses. A long-awaited sigh of relief after the pandemic, the long-awaited reunion! This is also important for our humanist celebration culture; our youth celebrations, which could finally be held again this year as usual by our national associations, have shown that there is a great desire for exchange and encounters. Let us also remember that our humanist values, such as solidarity, responsibility, self-determination and compassion, are lived above all in personal encounters. Humanity shows itself where we come together with others, it shows itself when we enter into relationships with others. And only then does it become clear to others, also in society. That is why it is so important that we celebrate our humanist values together. We humanists can finally meet again &#8211; and become more visible again!         <\/em><em>&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What constitutes our practical humanism? What is important to us in the humanist encounter? We have <strong>collected<\/strong> the voices of <strong>committed humanists from our national associations.<\/strong> We hope you enjoy reading them!  <\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-f35c52f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"f35c52f\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-12b6c95\" data-id=\"12b6c95\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3589a55 elementor-arrows-position-inside elementor-pagination-position-outside elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-carousel\" data-id=\"3589a55\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;slides_to_show&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;navigation&quot;:&quot;both&quot;,&quot;autoplay&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;pause_on_hover&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;pause_on_interaction&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;autoplay_speed&quot;:5000,&quot;infinite&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;effect&quot;:&quot;slide&quot;,&quot;speed&quot;:500}\" data-widget_type=\"image-carousel.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-carousel-wrapper swiper\" role=\"region\" aria-roledescription=\"carousel\" aria-label=\"Image Carousel\" dir=\"ltr\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-carousel swiper-wrapper\" aria-live=\"off\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"swiper-slide\" role=\"group\" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" aria-label=\"1 of 7\"><figure class=\"swiper-slide-inner\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"swiper-slide-image\" src=\"https:\/\/humanismus.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/WHT4-1-768x432.png\" alt=\"WHT4\" \/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"swiper-slide\" role=\"group\" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" aria-label=\"2 of 7\"><figure class=\"swiper-slide-inner\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"swiper-slide-image\" src=\"https:\/\/humanismus.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/WHT3-1-768x432.png\" alt=\"WHT3\" \/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"swiper-slide\" role=\"group\" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" aria-label=\"3 of 7\"><figure class=\"swiper-slide-inner\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"swiper-slide-image\" src=\"https:\/\/humanismus.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/WHT7-1-768x432.png\" alt=\"WHT7\" \/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"swiper-slide\" role=\"group\" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" aria-label=\"4 of 7\"><figure class=\"swiper-slide-inner\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"swiper-slide-image\" src=\"https:\/\/humanismus.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/WHT2-2-768x432.png\" alt=\"WHT2\" \/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"swiper-slide\" role=\"group\" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" aria-label=\"5 of 7\"><figure class=\"swiper-slide-inner\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"swiper-slide-image\" src=\"https:\/\/humanismus.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/WHT6-1-768x432.png\" alt=\"WHT6\" \/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"swiper-slide\" role=\"group\" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" aria-label=\"6 of 7\"><figure class=\"swiper-slide-inner\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"swiper-slide-image\" src=\"https:\/\/humanismus.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/WHT1-2-768x432.png\" alt=\"WHT1\" \/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"swiper-slide\" role=\"group\" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" aria-label=\"7 of 7\"><figure class=\"swiper-slide-inner\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"swiper-slide-image\" src=\"https:\/\/humanismus.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/WHT5-1-768x432.png\" alt=\"WHT5\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-swiper-button elementor-swiper-button-prev\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"eicon-chevron-left\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-swiper-button elementor-swiper-button-next\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"eicon-chevron-right\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"swiper-pagination\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year on June 21, humanists around the world celebrate World Humanist Day. But in the last two years, many celebrations and events had to be canceled due to the pandemic. Instead of face-to-face encounters, we were limited to digital. Even though the pandemic is not yet over, we can finally meet in person again this year on this important humanist holiday. We have gathered the voices of committed humanists.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":41334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-message"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanismus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanismus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanismus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanismus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanismus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74812"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/humanismus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74824,"href":"https:\/\/humanismus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74812\/revisions\/74824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanismus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanismus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanismus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanismus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}