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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PROGRA
Monday, December 7, 2009
4:30-6:00pm OPEN SPACE
in NSW and a member of the Council of Christians and Jews and the AntiSlavery Project Shehara Viswanathan is a member of the Uniting Church in Australia and the Convenor of the Young Women's Interfaith Network. From 19992003 Shehara was the Australian representative on the Women's Advisory Committee of the World Council of Churches in Switzerland. During this time she helped organise an International Young Women's Leadership Conference in Kenya, In 2002 she was one of a team of four who represented the Australian churches on a solidarity visit to Sudan. Mina Singh Batra was born in India, where she witnessed the Partition and assisted with the rehabilitation of refugees. Since coming to Australia in 1973 with her husband, Mina has represented the Union of Australian Women and the National Council of Women in Australia at the United Nations Women's World Conferences in Beijing and New York. Mina is the Convenor for Interfaith of the Executive of the United Nations Association of Australia (NSW)
Homeland: Four Portraits of Native Action Room 107 Film
Officially launched in Sydney, Australia in March 2001. WIN provides a model for constructive and harmonious dialogue between women of faith, who are often excluded or under-represented in the dialogue between faith leaders. Local WIN groups can be formed where there are women from at least three different religious groups who are willing to adopt the Aim and Principles of WIN. In addition to presenting WIN as a practical model that others can adopt, this program will provide participants with an opportunity to witness a WIN dialogue in action. Dr Natalie Mobini-Kesheh has been a member of the Australian Baha'i Community for almost 20 years. She is an active participant in interfaith dialogue on its behall and convenes a Women's Interfaith Network group in Western Sydney. Dr Mobini-Kesheh received her doctorate from Monash University for her historical research on the Arab minority in Indonesia and is the author of one book and several papers in this field. Josie Lacey was the Foundation Convenor of the Women's Interfaith Network. She is a lite member of the Fxecutive Council of Australian Jewry and an executive member of the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies. Mrs Lacey is the Interfaith Adviser to the Federation of Ethnic Communities Councils of Australia (FECCA) and the Australian Partnership of Religious Organisations IAPROI. She is also a New South Wales Executive Member of the World Conference of Religions for Peace. Rev Pravrajika Ajayaprana Mataji is the President of the Ramakrishna Sarada Vedanta Society of New South Wales. Thubten Chokyi is a Buddhist nun in the Gelugpa tradition, a meditation leader and a teacher of Tibetan Buddhism. She is the Spiritual Program Coordinator at Vajrayana Institute in Sydney, Australian Coordinator and Teacher Coordinator for the Liberation Prison Project, and Volunteer Manager for the Happiness & Its Causes and Mind & Its Potential conferences. She is a member of Women's Interfaith Network and a committee member of the Australian Sangha Association. Mohini Gunesekera arrived in Australia from Sri Lanka in 1972. She practiced as a Barrister from 1974 to 1979, and thereafter as a Solicitor. She has acted for many Buddhist charities, as well as the Sri Lanka Association and the Sri Lanka Consulate Sydney. Mohini was founding President of the Federation of Australian Buddhist Councils and is now its Honorary Vice President. She served for many years as Vice President of the Buddhist Council for New South Wales. Reverend Susan Emeleus holds degrees and training in science, education, theology, counselling and hospital chaplaincy. She worked for 30 years as a physics teacher in East Africa, Papua New Guinea and Australia. She was a Chaplain at the Children's Hospital, Westmead for five years. She was ordained Deacon in the Anglican Church in 1996 and is honorary assistant minister at St George's Anglican Church, Paddington, NSW.Sue is Convenor of the core group of the Women's Interlaith Network Trish Madigan is a Dominican sister, a member of the Women's Interfaith Network and a Christian representative on the Australian National Dialogue of Christians, Jews and Muslims, in 2002 Trish par ticipated in a Consultation of the Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue for the Asian region held in Seoul, South Korea. She has been an Australian delegate at four regional intergovernmental conferences of the International Dialogue on Interfaith Cooperation for Peace and Harmony Rev Seforosa Carroll is a Uniting Church minister and a student at the School of Theology, Charles Sturt University. Her PhD research is on a feminist diasporic reading of interfaith dialogue and encounters in Australia. Sef is currently the Chairperson of the Uniting Church National Assembly Working Group on Relations with Other Faiths. She represents the Uniting Church on the National Dialogue of Christians, Muslims and Jews and is a member of the Women's Interfaith Network. Wilma Viswanathan has served on the Uniting Church National Assembly Working Group on Relations with Other Faiths since the early 1990s. She was one of the keynote speakers at the Women's program of the International Conference of Christians and Jews in Jerusalern in June 2008. She is the Secretary of the World Conference of Religions for Peace
Nearly all Native American nations live on land threatened by environmental hazards, from toxic waste to strip mining and from oil drilling to nuclear contamination. This documentary film tells the stories of five activists in four communities dedicated to protecting Indian lands against environmental disaster, while preserving their sovereignty and ensuring cultural survival. The film was directed by Roberta Grossman.
Enhancing Religious Leadership for the Future 2 of 3 Rabbi Dr Alon Goshen-Gottstein Room 111 What are the newest challenges of religious leaders, and how do they compare with challenges that are longstanding? What should be the goals of religious leaders be? How might religious leaders be trained in light of the above? This is the second session of a three-day open space workshop, based on study materials prepared by a recent gathering of leading interreligious scholars. The session is geared to religious leaders or those in training to become one and is limited to 30 participants. Advanced registration is required, along with a commitment to participate in the entire series. Alon Goshen-Gottstein is the director of the Elijah Interfaith Institute and director of the Centre for the Study of Rabbinic Thought, Beit Morasha College, both in Jerusalem. He was ordained a rabbi in 1977 Projects of the Elijah Interfaith Institute include the bi-annual meeting of the board of World Religious Leaders, the Educational Network, as well as the Jewish and the Muslim Theology of the Religious Other
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