{"id":668732,"date":"2026-11-08T00:01:37","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T04:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/?p=668732"},"modified":"2026-11-08T17:33:26","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T21:33:26","slug":"religious-statesman-rajan-zed-appointed-as-faith-interfaith-relations-advisor-of-reno-sparks-naacp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/668732\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious statesman Rajan Zed appointed as Faith &#038; Interfaith Relations Advisor of Reno-Sparks NAACP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_668733\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-668733\" style=\"width: 780px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-668733 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/zed-780x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"450\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-668733\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rajan Zed with Patricia Y. Gallimore and Donald Gallimore, President and Executive Committee Member respectively of Reno-Sparks NAACP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Distinguished religious statesman Rajan Zed has been appointed as Faith &amp; Interfaith Relations Advisor of Reno-Sparks NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People).<\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Patricia Y. Gallimore, President of Reno-Sparks NAACP and former Member of NAACP National Board of Directors, announcing this appointment, said that in this position Zed would build coalition bridges across diverse religious communities and faith traditions, promote interfaith dialogue and cooperation and religious freedom, engage faith leaders in civil rights advocacy, advise leadership on moral and interfaith policy strategy, etc.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Rajan Zed has read opening-prayers in the United States Senate and US House-of-Representatives in Washington DC; various State Senates, State Houses-of-Representatives, County Commissions, City\/Town Councils all-over USA; covering 365 legislative bodies in 47 US states, one US territory and Canada. Bestowed with \u201cWorld Interfaith Leader Award\u201d, Zed has been panelist for \u201cOn Faith\u201d, prestigious interactive conversation on religion produced by The Washington Post; and is producing weekly interfaith panel \u201cFaith Forum\u201d in Reno Gazette-Journal (of USA Today Network), which brings various religions\/denominations together, since February 2011. Reno-Sparks NAACP honored him with the \u201cReligious Leadership Award\u201d in 2024.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>NAACP, founded 1909, whose tagline is \u201cFreedom, Justice, &amp; Equality\u201d, states to be &#8220;nation&#8217;s largest and most widely recognized civil rights organization\u201d and \u201con the front lines of the fight for civil rights and social justice\u201d. Its Vision includes: \u201cWe envision an inclusive community rooted in liberation where all persons can exercise their civil and human rights without discrimination.\u201d Headquartered in Baltimore (Maryland), Derrick Johnson is its President.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Distinguished religious statesman Rajan Zed has been appointed as Faith &amp; Interfaith Relations Advisor of Reno-Sparks NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). Patricia Y. Gallimore, President of Reno-Sparks NAACP and former Member of NAACP National Board of Directors, announcing this appointment, said that in this position Zed would build coalition bridges across diverse religious communities and faith traditions, promote interfaith dialogue and cooperation and religious freedom, engage faith leaders in civil rights advocacy, advise leadership on moral and interfaith policy strategy, etc. Rajan Zed has read opening-prayers&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":668733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47748],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668734,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668732\/revisions\/668734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}