A three day residential leadership training program for young leaders of a variety of faiths will be held in Kyneton, Victoria, during February, 2013.
The B’nai Brith Anti Defamation Commission aims to promote respect and justice and oppose racism and hatred. They run many programs one of which is a Multifaith Future Leaders Program.
The Victorian Interfaith Networks will conduct a grassroots conference on Sunday, 28 October at the Fitzroy Town Hall, Melbourne.
The Council of Christians and Jews (Victoria) presents a Religious Forum on Same Sex Marriage. Six representatives from a variety of religious streams will discuss their denomination’s view on same sex marriage.
Venerable Thich Tinh Dao is the Abbot of the Monastery at Linh Son Buddhist Temple in Reservoir, Melbourne.
The annual Children and Spirituality Symposium will be conducted at Parkville on Friday, 7 September 2012.
Writing the Sacred is a one-day conference on The Sacred in Literature and the Arts, at Australian Catholic University, Strathfield NSW Campus.
The Australian Association for the Study of Religion, in conjunction with the Australasian Association of Buddhist Studies will hold a conference on Multiple Religious Modernities at the University of Western Sydney, 28 – 30 September 2012.
‘Listening to the Land’ is an initiative of the Mornington Peninsula Interfaith Network to bring people from all religious and spiritual backgrounds together to connect, or reconnect with the Land and be moved to care for it.
Lajna Imaillah Victoria (Women’s Axiliary of Ahmadiyya Muslim Association) is organising a women’s only event to promote Integration and dialogue, which brings together religious communities, parliamentarians and civics to share their thoughts on the promotion and establishment of peace in the modern world.
Brahma Kumaris of WA, the WA section of the National Council of Jewish Women of Australia and UNAA of WA will celebrate UN World Peace Day.
Noted Broadaster Rachael Kohn gave an address to a recent Religions for Peace Meeting at Parliament House, Sydney.
The Growing Banyan Tree
Prof. Des Cahill, Chair, Religions for Peace Australia, delivered a keynote address, The Growing Banyan Tree at the recent AGM of the Buddhist Society of Victoria. Professor Cahill presented a series of key challenges to the Buddhist Sangha in Australia and how it may play a vital role in the development of Australian Asians.
