Upcoming Monthly Sunday Services will be held on the following dates 8/18, 9/15, 10/20...

monthly services
Sunday Services are held on the third Sunday of each month...
7/20/25, 8/17, 9/21 etc.

Join us for our July Sunday Service on July 20, 2025 at 4:00 pm ET with our Special Spiritual Guest, Altamush Saeed
Altamush Saeed is a BIPOC award-winning Pakistani interspecies justice lawyer, activist, philanthropist, teacher, and filmmaker. He holds four advanced law degrees, including an Animal Law LLM and Environmental Law LLM from Lewis & Clark Law School, where he was the first Pakistani recipient of the Brooks Institute Scholarship and an Environmental Law LLM Ambassador Scholar. He also earned a Human Rights LLM from the University of Michigan as a Comparative and International Law Scholar and Myint Zan LLM Prize winner, along with a BA-LLB from LUMS.
Altamush lectures on Animal, Environmental, and Animals in Disasters Law at the University of Central Punjab and NUST Law School, teaching Pakistan’s first Animal Law and Environmental law courses.
He is the Founding Managing Partner at Environmental and Animal Rights Consultants and Co-Founder of Charity Doings Foundation. He is the Founder and Lead of Pakistan’s first International Animal and Environmental Rights Conference and the founder and chair of Pakistan's 1st Notified Animal Law Committee at the Lahore High Court Bar Association of Pakistan.
Recognized globally, he has received the LUMS Vice Chancellor Alumni Achievement Award, the Humane Society’s DEI Trailblazer Award, and the inaugural DEI Trailblazer Spark Award and the HBL PSL Hamaray Heroes Award 2025.
ABOUT SUNDAY SERVICES
When: The third Sunday of each month (see upcoming dates at top of this page)
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Service from 4 pm - 5:30 pm U.S. Eastern Time
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Fellowship is available after the service
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How: Currently via Zoom. Register for link.
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Why: We recognize that many people do not see their deeply rooted compassion for all creatures reflected in some houses of worship and that some people have left their religion of birth or choice for this reason. The Compassion Consortium is here to supplement this "missing piece" for persons who are part of another religious or spiritual community, and those who are not. We welcome participants of all faiths or none. Learn more about us.
Creative programming: Each month's program is unique, and features either a solo presentation or panel discussion with experts from various religious and philosophical traditions who share the conviction that all living kind, and the planet itself, deserve respect, justice, and loving kindness. View replays of our past services here,
Spiritual practices: Each service also includes elements of traditional worship services—such as music, meditation, and movement. We hope these practices help each participant personally express faith, gratitude, and celebration to the degree that they wish to participate.
SAMPLE SERVICE
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Eastern time
Guided by:
Reverend William Melton
Reverend Sarah Bowen
Victoria Moran
Jen Baker
Jess Hoffman
Welcome and Introduction
The Compassion Consortium Tenets of Agreement ​
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Interspecies Spiritual Practice
Conversation with Guest Speaker
Song of Compassion
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Compassion in Action: A Short Story
Blessings & Prayers
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Spiritual Fellowship & Open Discussion
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The Compassion Consortium is organized pursuant to the New York Not-for Profit Corporation Law and Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, and operates as a not-for-profit spiritual, educational, and charitable organization. Accordingly, we request that political, partisan and lobbying discussions and activities be avoided in the Consortium’s activities, forums and social media platforms. We also request that all discussions, input and contributions be conducted with decorum and in a positive spirit of respect, tolerance, civility and harmony.