The Centre for Interfaith & Cultural Dialogue at Griffith University invites you to a Public Lecture by Professor John Shaver on Religion, the Media and the (Un)making of Prejudice towards Muslims on 29th of August 2018.
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Canberra, ACT: The Field
A short film exploring the interfaith community of Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory. Not all religions are shown, but many of the 12 involved in regular interfaith meetings are included. An honest examination of religious pluralism in the age of Donald Trump and American exceptionalism.
Victoria: Spirit in Spring
Melbourne Quakers are running Spirit in Spring – series of Saturday afternoon Discussion Groups. These events are offered at the renovated Victorian Friends Centre, 484 William Street, Melbourne.
A Rabbi writes: An open letter to my Roman Catholic friends
“You, my Catholic friends, deserve the good church. So does the world.” Rabbi Jeff Salkin on the new report of three hundred Roman Catholic priests sexually abusing a thousand children – and how Roman Catholics can hold onto their faith.
Victoria: Facts about Islam key to anti-Muslim prejudice
A Deakin University study has found that having more factual knowledge of Islam and contact with Muslims is linked to less prejudice against Muslims. The study by researchers with the University’s Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation (ADI) is the first to examine whether knowing more facts about Islam as a religion and knowing more Muslims predicts lower levels of prejudice regardless of people’s age, education and political views.
Western Australia: The towns where multiculturalism works, built on a foundation of tolerance
In front of a gathering in Kuala Lumpur of South-East Asia’s most influential Muslim scholars, the leader of a mosque in country Western Australia took centre stage. Imam Alep Mydie had travelled there from Katanning, a farming town 300 kilometres south of Perth. His message to the conference of ASEAN scholars was clear — that the commitment to multiculturalism in Australia was alive and well. “I put forward how we all live [in Katanning] together, and how the mosque is open to the public,” Mr Mydie said.
Victoria: The Maestro, In Search of the Last Music
Courage to Care together with Melbourne Holocaust Centre and March of the Leaving are holding fundraiser film night at the Classic on Sunday 26th August, 6.30pm. The film is called The Maestro, In Search of the Last Music:
Muslims in Sydney pray for rain
Muslims in Sydney have come together to pray for rain as NSW experiences its worst drought on record.
The prayers come as a response to the current drought which has left farmers across NSW in dire conditions desperate for rainfall.
NSW: Buddhist Retreat: Beauty and Sadness
Our lives are often caught between the experience of beauty and sadness, and sometimes we recognise the two in a single experience. The first disciple of the Buddha who entered the path entered through the gate of impermanence (anicca) and the Buddha proclaimed of him, “Kondanna knows”.
Most people avoid sadness and are fearful of anicca and see time as a kind of enemy, and yet it is a primary doorway leading to liberation. This weekend will be an invitation to enter into and to explore our experience of impermanence and its intimate relationship with beauty.
ABC Life: How to sit with someone who’s dying
When his grandfather died in the emergency department of a Hobart hospital, Andreas was by his side. “I was really frightened.” It was Andreas’s first experience of being with a dying person and it made him anxious.
“As his breathing slowed down and he was taking less and less breaths, I was worried about how I was going to feel when he didn’t take any more,” he says. “And then he had one final really deep inhale and exhale, and it was fine. “I wasn’t panicked at all. I thought ‘Oh, it’s not weird’.
Senator’s speech on ‘final solution’ condemned
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Australian senator is being condemned for his speech in Parliament advocating reviving a white-only immigration policy and using the term “final solution” in calling for a vote on which migrants to admit into the country.
NSW: Afternoons with Geshe la: July to December
The Vajrayana Institute, Ashfield, NSW, offers an invitatio to Afternoons with Geshela: Saturday, 18 August 2018 to Saturday, 17 November 2018 from 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
