Parliament of Worlds Religion 2009 Melbourne Australia

Author(s): Parliament of the World’s Religions
Publisher: USA Parliament of the Worlds Religions

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Friday, December 4, 2009
2:30-4:00pm ENGAGEMENT SESSION
ENGAGEMENT 2:30-4:00pm
acknowledge each other's challenges in maintaining one's own faith, identity and traditions while integrating into the wider community. Deborah Stone is a member of the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation Commission, Australia. Dr Purushottama Bilimoria is a Professor of Comparative Religions at Deakin University, Melbourne: Editor-in-Chief of Sophia Philosophy of Religion, Melbourne University: Philosopher, Deakin University and Visiting Professor, University of California at Berkeley and State University of New York at Stony Brook. Rachel Woodlock is a Researcher in the Centre for Islam and The Modern World at the School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University Michele Bernshaw is Principal of the King David School in Melbourne. Professor Padmasiri de Silva is a Buddhist philosopher in the Theravada tradition and has written a number of books about Buddhism in the modern context. He has held teaching positions in Sri Lanka, Singapore, the US and New Zealand, and is at present a research assaciate with the School of Historical Studies ai Monash University Piara Singh is a member of the Sikh Interfaith Council of Victoria
LUNCHTIME PROGRAMMING 1:00-2:30 pm
Friday Jumu'ah Congregational Prayer Sheikh Isse A Musse Room 202 Religious or Spiritual Observance Every Friday just after noon, Muslims come together for the Jumu'ah prayer, a congregational prayer (salat), in lieu of Dhuhr prayer (one of the five obligatory prayers that Muslims perform dailyl. Before the prayer, a khatib (person who delivers the sermon) gives a khutbah isermon). Sheikh Isse A Musse, Imam of the newly built Virgin Mary Mosque in Melbourne and spiritual leader of Melbourne's Horn of Africa Muslim community. will give the khutbah and lead the prayer. The khutbah will centre on the Parliament themes, with emphasis on dialogue between various religious beliefs and issues such as protection of the environment and the indigent, including refugees. All are most welcome to attend. Sheikh Isse A Musse is Imam of the Virgin Mary Mosque and spiritual leader of Melbourne's Horn of Africa Muslim community. He was Imam at the Islamic Council of Victoria Jeffcott Mosque in Melbourne for thirteen years and is a member of the National Council of Fatwa Sheikh Isse is a member of the Dispute Settlement Centre in the Department of Justice and is an appointed marriage celebrant and a marriage counsellor.
The Human Face of Climate Change Martin Frick Mary Evelyn Tucker Plenary Hall Panel Discussion Climate change is the most serious emerging humanitarian concern of our age. The consequences of climate change will be disastrous for human beings worldwide, but they are especially worrisome for those societies already on the edge of survival. Climate change redefines the very basis of our existence and relationship with the plane. It is exacerbating many of the already difficult challenges we face, such as access to nutrition and health care, natural disasters and ongoing political and religious conflicts. The Global Humanitarian Forum (GHF), established in 2007. aims to build a strong global community to address these pressing challenges. This program, sponsored by GHF, will demonstrate that those societies who contributed the least to climate change are the ones who will suffer the most from its devastating effects. It will challenge participants of all faith traditions to unite in the name of averting the coming environmental crisis. Martin Frick is Deputy CEO/Director of the Global Humanitarian Forum Frick has served as the Deputy Ambassador in Albania and the Cabinet Allairs Advisor to the German Federal Foreign Minister. Frick is the German representative on the NGO committee of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, the UN Democracy Fund Board, as well as for the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and for human rights resolutions of the UN Security Council Mary Evelyn Tucker is a Senior Lecturer in Religion and the Environment at Yale University, holding joint appointments as a Research Scholar in the Divinity School, the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, and the Department of Religious Studies. With John Grim, she cofounded the Forum on Religion and Ecology IFORE). Tucker and Grim also coordinated a ten-conference series on World Religions and Ecology at Harvard's Center for the Study of World Religions. Tucker has been a committee member of the Interfaith Partnership for the Environment at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) since 1986 and is vice president of the American Teilhard Association. Author of many books on religion and ecology. she has recently published Worldly Wonder: Religions Enter Their Ecological Phase (Open Court Press, 2003). She is the co-editor of books on ecological views of Buddhism Confucianism, and Hinduism. She has published the volume Confucian Spirituality co-edited with Tu Weiming, and, The Record of Great Doubts: The Philosophy of Chi. (http://www.religionandecology.org/About/founders.php?
Climate Change and the Arctic: The Indigenous Perspective Aqqaluk Lynge, Greenland: Kalaallit, Moderator Francois Paulette, Canada: Dene Norma Kassi, Canada: Vuntut Gwich'in First Nation Room 101 Panel Discussion The frontlines of climate change are in the Arctic. The impact of this transformation are being felt in this region today and it is affecting the health and well being of Arctic
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