The Newman Club, SF State's Catholic ministry, collaborated with St. Thomas More Church in San Francisco to bring the campus a Concert for Peace in early April.

On April 4, in the Malcolm X Plaza, ten members from the Newman Club performed peace ballads, opera, band covers, and hip-hop to encourage students and faculty to practice peace in the world.

Father Rick Van De Water, campus sponsor for the Newman Club and SF State Arabic lecturer, said the goal of the concert was to bring people of Muslim, Jewish, and Christian faiths together.

"We're all children of God and we're all needing peace. So we're here to speak out for peace, to sing for peace and to pray for peace," Father Van De Water said.

Monica Cardona, a member of St. Thomas More Church, said this Concert/Prayer has been going on for the past couple of years.

"The concert was held because evidently this world is waiting, crying out, and yearning for peace; and not just peace between nations, religions, or ethnic groups, but even in our own society, families, and on the personal level," Cardona said.

"We can be different and yet yearn and struggle for the same end: peace, harmony, dialogue, and unity as a human family."