ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Feb. 09, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- On February 4th, in recognition of the United Nations World Interfaith Harmony Week (February 1 – 7), Scientologists, Christians, and members of the Nation of Islam held a Peace Walk and distribution of The Way to Happiness common sense moral guide through the Childs Park Neighborhood of St. Petersburg. The 40 members of the coalition were organized by the Way to Happiness Association of Tampa Bay, Brother John Muhammad of the Childs Park Neighborhood Association and Sister Nayyirah Muhammad of the Nation of Islam. Walking door-to-door, they distributed some 900 booklets in the troubled neighborhood of Childs Park.
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Brother John Muhammad was spurred into action when in 2014 violent crime spiked by 30%, a five-time increase that one year. Several youth have been murdered in Childs Park, and Brother John organized vigils and lectures, trying to educate his neighbors so they can educate their youth.
Kelly Yaegermann, the President of the Way to Happiness Association of Tampa Bay, said, The Way to Happiness of Tampa Bay joined Brother John’s effort because, “Our youth need a moral compass. The Way to Happiness is non-religious and delineates a straight path that can be followed by any person of any background, culture or creed. If we can walk together as one even though we are from different religious backgrounds, we set an example for our youth of how people can harmonize and bring peace."
The Way to Happiness
The Way to Happiness, written by L. Ron Hubbard, is available in 112 languages, with some 115 million copies distributed in 186 nations. The campaign to distribute the book has been embraced by more than 257,000 groups and individuals. It holds the Guinness World Record as the single most-translated nonreligious book and fills the moral vacuum in an increasingly materialistic society.