World Religion Day- Community to Kinship

Posted by Amtul Q Farhat

The magnificent Kremlin of Kazan (a Unesco World Heritage) with its orthodox church and mosque, a symbol of coexistence among different religions.

Religion promotes peace and harmony. It builds bridges and binds communities. This is what was celebrated yesterday in the Barrie City Hall Rotunda in Canada.

The World Religion Day was organized by the Baha’i Community of Barrie. Thanks to Karen Fox for her dedication and yearlong efforts.

The event’s theme was building harmony and peace in community and speakers came from different faiths and gave view point quoting from their respective book of scripture.

It was amazing to see how various religions speak of common values of equality of human beings, justice for all and human fellowship and lay emphasis on upholding these values to build community in to kinship.

“O mankind, indeed We created you from a male and female, and made you into nations and tribes for you to get to know one another. Indeed, the most honorable of you in the sight of Allah are the most righteous.” (Al Qur’an 49:13)

Mr Peter Silveira, the City Councillor opened the session and following representatives from different faiths spoke about their faith:

Farhan Iqbal from the Ahmadiyya Community of Canada.

Deacon Ron MacLellan from Catholicism,

Susan Eagle from Grace United Church

Neda Seki & Rick Chapman from Baha’i Faith.

Linda Marek from Baptist Faith,

Nichiren SGI Canada by Sootara from Buddhism

Posted by Amtul Q Farhat on January 22, 2013. Filed under Americas,Canada,Interfaith tolerance,Intra-Religious Tolerance,ISLAM,Religion,Religious Harmony. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

5 Responses to World Religion Day- Community to Kinship

Munir Masood

January 23, 2013 at 2:16 pm

Alas we could live in such a peaceful situatuion and May Allah help us to organise such gatherings in our country also to propagate true Islam
IBN E OMAR

January 23, 2013 at 4:46 pm

WONDERFUL.
CONGRATULATION.

IBN E OMAR
Earl Shugerman

January 26, 2013 at 6:51 am

Wonderful post, thanks.
Karen Fox

January 28, 2013 at 3:53 am

As I member of the Baha’i community of Barrie, I want to thank you for your participation in World Religion Day. It was wonderful to meet the folks you brought to celebrate with us. I look forward to working with you in the future to bring mutual respect, peace and harmony to our community.
Amtul Q Farhat

January 28, 2013 at 4:30 am

Thanks Karen!
Now we have more than one platform to meet.