January 2017 | Canadian Interfaith Conversation

La Conversation exprime le plus profond chagrin

La Conversation Interreligieuse Canadienne a publié la déclaration suivante le 30 janvier 2017:

Conversation Mourns with Muslims in Quebec City

The Canadian Interfaith Conversation issued the following statement on January 30, 2017:

Conversation Participants Respond to Quebec Mosque Shooting

Responses to acts of hatred are stronger when they are issued together with others. Read how Conversation Participants are responding to Sunday's shootings at the Centre cultural islamique du Quebec that tragically claimed the lives of six people.

Observing International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Winnipeg

On January 25 Belle Jarniewski addressed Winnipeg’s Mayor and City Council as part of that city's official acknowledgement (for the first time) of International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Winnipeg. Flags were lowered to half-mast from sunrise to sunset.

Your worship Mayor Bowman, members of city council,

"History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.”

In Response to Winnipeg Hate Crime of December 31, 2016

Re: Anti-Semitic Message Shocks Homeowner (WFP January 4, 2017)

Where does religion fit into Canada's pluralism model?

In an article he wrote in September 2016, Geoffrey Cameron, chair of the Program Committee for the Building Our Whole Society Conference, demonstrates what interfaith conversation can look like.

Interfaith StoryTelling Project

Have you ever heard of a Living Library? It works just like a regular library, in that visitors browse a catalogue to find titles, choose a book, borrow it and then return it when they have finished reading it. The only difference is that in a Living Library, Books are people. You “read” this kind of Book by having a conversation with someone.

Tolerance or Acceptance: A Balanced Approach

The following is a response to two articles; one from columnist Taslim Jaffer who wrote an article entitled Building Bridges: Tolerance is Beneath Us and the second, a letter to the editor of Peace Arch News titled Christians More than Accepting by Surrey resident Patricia Kroeker, both of which can be read here)