Chenrezig Institute is a Buddhist retreat and study centre nestled in the hills of the Sunshine Coast hinterland in Queensland, Australia. Established in 1974, the Institute was among the first Tibetan Buddhist centres in the Western World and remains one of the largest. Several courses are offered in November 2019.
Queensland
Queensland: Trust-building and the Vibrancy of Western Multicultural Societies: The Christian- Muslim experience
Dave Hale and Adis Duderija will present talks on the topic on the occasion of celebrating the meeting 800 years ago between the Christian St Francis and Muslim Sultan of Palestine, Syria, and Egypt: al-Malik al-Kamil at the Multifaith Centre Griffith University, on October 17.
Op Ed: It’s time to replace Religious Instruction with Worldviews Education in Australian schools
The religion in schools debate is heating up again — this time with a group, Queensland Parents for Secular State Schools, calling for a parliamentary review of Religious Instruction (RI) in state schools.
Brisbane: Safer Churches Conference 2019
The 9th biennial Safer Churches Conference will be the first conference held by the National Council of Churches in Australia (NCCA) Safe Church Program since the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse recommendations were released in December 2017. The theme for the conference, “Transforming Cultures: Listening, Reflecting, Acting” will provide the framework across the two-day event, at the Mercure Hotel, Brisbane on 16-17 September 2019.
Queensland: Community Trustbuilding – What Does it Take? What Do We Need?
Initiatives of Change (Australia) will facilitate a Community Trust Building event at the Multifaith Centre, Nathan Campus, Griffith University on Saturday August 31.
Queensland: Women’s Forum
The Women’s Circles of Peace will conduct a Women’s Forum on 24th of August at St Anthony’s Catholic Parish, Harristown. The Forum – for women, family, education, will be a day long program sponsored by the Pure Land Learning Association, Toowoomba and Toowoomba Hospital.
Queensland: The Current State of Interfaith Collaboration in Financial Investments
The Centre for Interfaith & Cultural Dialogue will host the Rev. Seamus P Finn OMI, presenting a public lecture covering “The Current State of Interfaith Collaboration in Financial Investments” at the Nathan Campus on Friday, August 30, 2019 at 6 PM – 9 PM.
Brisbane: Memorial Mass for Sri Lanka
Archbishop Coleridge – leader of the Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane, delivered a homily on the Sri Lanka bombings at a memorial event held in Brisbane on 28 April 2019.
Qld: Toowoomba Mosque offers Condolences and Prayers
On Tuesday, 23 April 2019 some members of Toowoomba Masjid visited St Anthony’s Church with flowers. Led by President of Islamic Society of Toowoomba, Professor Shahjahan Khan, and Imam Abdul Kader the team felt a bit relieved to be able to reciprocate some of the humanity shown to the Muslim community by their Christian friends after the Christchurch mosques attacks.
QLD: Question Islam
Question Islam is your opportunity to ask questions about Islam and put Islam Under the Spotlight! Taking place at the Sir Samuel Griffith Lecture Centre, Nathan Campus, Griffith University on the afternoon of Saturday, 27 April.
Queensland: Nurturing Global Citizens through Interfaith Dialogue
The Centre for Interfaith and Believing Women in a Culture for Peace are please to present a special interfaith workshop by Professor Toh Swee-Hin and Dr Virginia Cawagas: “Nurturing Global Citizens through Interfaith Dialogue”.
Queensland: Buddhist Chaplaincy Course
This course is for anyone who performs helping work – as a volunteer – inside Buddhist communities or in the Australian or international community. This helping work may involve: caring for children and families; supporting people who are facing life difficulties (relationship problems, unemployment, bereavement etc.); teaching Buddhism to school children; caring for the sick, elderly and dying; providing pastoral care in universities, hospitals, hospices and prisons; teaching basic meditation skills and running meditation practice groups (for example in hospitals and workplaces); supporting community members in times of conflict or natural disaster.