{"id":1117,"date":"2009-08-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bahai.org.au\/index.php\/news\/bahais-participate-in-major-inter-faith-event\/"},"modified":"2017-10-14T04:48:17","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T04:48:17","slug":"bahais-participate-in-major-inter-faith-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bahai.org.au\/index.php\/bahais-participate-in-major-inter-faith-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Baha&apos;is participate in major inter-faith event"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bahai.org.au\/Portals\/0\/Bahais%20sign%20flag.jpg\" alt=\"Bahais participate in major inter-faith event\" \/><figcaption>Two young Baha&#8217;is add their signatures to a flag of the Parliament of the World&#8217;s Religions on display at the Sydney pre-Parliament event<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Members of the Australian Baha\u2019i community participated in a major inter-faith event this month where issues relating to the environment, indigenous Australia and youth were featured.<\/p>\n<p>Held at Old Government House in Parramatta and attended by the Premier of New South Wales, Nathan Rees, the day-long gathering had the theme of \u201cHearing Each Other, Healing the Earth\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>As well as Baha\u2019is, participants included Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Jews, Muslims, Sikhs and Zoroastrians.<\/p>\n<p>A Baha\u2019i, Vincent Takizadeh, 25, was a member of a panel discussion by young people from seven religions on social cohesion and the search for inner peace. The discussion was chaired by Radio National personality Rachael Kohn.<\/p>\n<p>The gathering was part of the lead-up to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parliamentofreligions.org\/\">Parliament of the World\u2019s Religions<\/a>, the world\u2019s biggest inter-faith event, which will be held in Melbourne in December 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The program began with an inter-faith forum chaired by Radio National\u2019s Steven Crittenden on \u201cFasting and Feasting: Food, Faith and the Environment\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A noon-time concert featured performers from Sydney\u2019s diverse communities including didgeridoo star Turtle Tamwoy, the Gazi Husref Beg Bosnian choir, opera singer Helena Sindelar, Israeli singer Dahlia Dior, an African Gospel a capella group, and Sikh musicians.<\/p>\n<p>Keynote speakers in the afternoon were Rev Dirk Ficca, the executive director of the Parliament of the World\u2019s Religions, and Indigenous Person of the Year, Professor Larissa Behrendt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Australian Baha\u2019i community participated in a major inter-faith event this month where issues relating to the environment, indigenous Australia and youth were featured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-releases","category-uncategorised"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.2 - 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