2014 Buddha Birth Day Festival
In collaboration with the Buddha’s Light International Association of QLD, the Griffith University Centre for Interfaith & Cultural Dialogue will be hosting a Multi-faith Forum at South Bank this coming Sunday 4th of May, 2014.
The Annual General Meeting of the Victoria Branch of Religions for Peace will be held at Temple Beth Israel, Alma Rd, St Kilda, on Sunday, 1 June 2014. Prof. Andrew Markus – Pratt Foundation Research Chair of Jewish Civilisation at Monash University – will speak on The Diversity of Jewish Religious Groups and their Settlement in Australia.
The 2014 Human Rights Arts & Film Festival is screening the Melbourne premiere of No Burqas Behind Bars at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image on Tuesday 13 May, 6:30pm
As the Jewish Community commemorates Yom HaShoah this year, the Ecumenical and Interfaith Commission of the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne wish to join our hearts in prayer and remembrance with them.
Alkauthar will offer a course on the essential character of being Muslim at Griffith University in May.
Justice Peter McClellan AM, Chair of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse gave the 2014 Familes Australia Oration. Justice McClelland examines historical interventions into child sexual abuse and their indications towards the path of healing Australia must take.
The latest issue – April 2014 – of Sultana’s Dream is available for reading. The editorial takes up the matter of the Racial Discrimination Act amendments and how religion is a surrogate for race, in the minds of many. There is also a report on the educational tours at the new Museum of Islamic History.
Growing up not-white and Muslim in Australia means becoming inured to a media and popular culture reflecting back faces and worlds which bear little resemblance to an everyday reality punctuated with ritual, some kind of after-school class, parental expectations and confusion.
The Victorian Government has vowed to protect its multifaith and multicultural communities from the proposed changes to the Racial Discrimination Act.
The Canberra community is rallying behind an Islamic centre that was ransacked by vandals.
Griffith University and the Gold Coast Hindu Cultural Association (GCHCA) are pleased to sponsor a seminar on “Spiritual Quotient for Lifestyle Mastery” on 23rd April 2014 at Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus.
The United Nations has embarked on a program to generate momentum when the Millennium Development Goals expire in 2015.A large number of initiatives have been undertaken. One such initiative is ensuring peaceful and sustainable societies.
