CELEBRATING THE 2013 WORLD INTERFAITH HARMONY WEEK
World Interfaith Harmony Week is an annual event in the first week of February each year. For the 2013 celebration in Parliament House, Melbourne, Religions for Peace Australia was one of the sponsors.
The Islamic Centre of Victoria will present a collaborative exhibition celebrating the diversity and uniqueness of the Australian Muslim at the Hume Global Learning Centre.
Irris Makler is an Australian foreign correspondent and author. She will talk about her new book, Hope Street, Jerusalem a reporter’s memoir and a love story, set in Jerusalem during the Intifada. It’s funny, sad, insightful and still optimistic.
The Castan Centre for Human Rights Law (Monash University Faculty of Law) invites you to a public lecture: ‘Seeking security: Australia’s refugee policy in a time of complexity and change’.
Chant-Fest is a retreat-festival experience which awakens your inner-soul and touches your heart through blissful devotional chanting and dancing.
The Federation of Australian Buddhists announces that exemptions for religious bodies are opposed to Buddhist principles, as they cause harm to those who are discriminated against, those who discriminate, and the moral fabric of Australian society.
The National Multicultural Festival will take place in Canberra over the weekend of 8 – 10 February. Canberra Interfaith will conduct a day-long Interfaith Forum on 10 February.
Studies of Religion in Focus Conference is an Interfaith initiative to resource teachers in their teaching of Studies of Religion I & II. A one day conference will take place in Pitt St, Sydney on 8 March 2013.
Eremos Centre will examine the question, “What is the meaning of pilgrimage in an age of mass tourism?” in a presentation in Paddington, NSW on Sunday March 3.
There is one testimony from which all others spring forth: the testimony of living in and from the power of the Living Spirit, day-to-day, moment to moment. This is the theme of a discernment workshop at Silver Wattle Retreat Centre.
A week – long Buddhism for Quakers course will be conducted by Arthur Wells at Silver Wattle Retreat Center from Sunday 5 May
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has announced the terms of reference for the Royal Commission into institutional child abuse, with plans for a legislative change to allow for more evidence to be submitted.
