Jain Digest 2015 06

Author(s): Federation of JAINA
Publisher: USA Federation of JAINA

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JAIN DIGEST
2015BARLAMENI E OF THE WORLD'S RELIGIONS
SALT LAKE - OCT 15-19
Jains at the heart of the What You Will Experience at the Parliament interfaith movement.
• Sharing beliefs and practices, learning from
others, expanding networks JAINA President Prem Jain appointed Kirit C Daftary.. Pairing with other religions to present together JAINA Past president and the current trustee of the the experience of working with each other for a just, Parliament of World Religions to lead JAINA delegation peaceful and sustainable world to upcoming World Parliament in 2015. If you have . Collaborating on generating strategies to confront never attended the World Parliament then this is the critical issues faced by humanity, such as climate best opportunity to attend, then you should consider change, hunger, poverty and violence attending it.
• Keynote speakers for the 2015 Parliament will
include luminaries you will know and rising stars of Following are the committee members of the many sectors, including the sciences and technology. committee:
Major religious leaders like His Holiness the Prem Jain, Ashok Domadia, Arvind Vora, Naresh Jain, Dalai Lama, Nobel Laureates like Desmond Tutu, and Girish Shah and Hema Pokharna. We have had so political leaders like President Mandela have far 40 registrations to attend the Parliament. We are addressed the Parliaments as well. expecting to have over 100 Jains under JAINA banner at the Parliament.
We invite you to become part of a Jain legacy in the
Parliament from groundbreaker Virchand Gandhi in 1893 The first World Parliament was held in 1893 in Chicago. to the recently departed humanitarian icon Mahendra Jain lawyer Virchand Gandhi captivated the assembly Mehta. Jains in the Parliament have helped carve the of 3,000 religious leaders at the premiere 1893 World's principles of the Global Ethic, demonstrate non-violence Parliament of Religions. Gandhi's achievement of to the world, and will in 2015 set a new precedent for the becoming the chief exporter of Jainism from India places future of the interfaith movement. him among spiritual leaders credited for introducing Indian traditions to the United States.
We have arranged a block of rooms at hotels close
to the Salt Lake Palace. You can visit Parliament After 100 years, next parliament was held in 1993 in website www.cpwr.org. Please contact Kirit Daftary at Chicago. Thereafter in 1999 in Cape Town, in 2003 in kcdaftary@gmail.com to book with JAINA group. We Barcelona, 2009 in Melbourne and now in 2015 in Salt have discounted rates available. Lake City. JAINA has been actively supporting all of these parliaments.
Those who are active in interfaith community work and would like to serve on the board of the parliament as the Trustee, please contact Kirit Daftary at kcdaftary@ gmail.com. He will provide you with the necessary details and application forms for the further consideration.
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