| 2018 1 - 7 Nov |
More than 7,500 people attended the Parliament of the World's Religions held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
This forum began in 1893 at the World Columbian Exposition in Chicago as an effort to promote an emerging international movement devoted to promoting dialogue among religions. Since that time, it has been held in Cape Town (1999), Barcelona (2004), Melbourne (2009) and Salt Lake City (2015). [Website] Bahá'í presenters were:
- Bani Dugal: "The Equality of Women and Men: Divine Imperative for an Age of Transition."
- Hugh Locke: "Half the Sky, Half the Land: The Role of Women Farmers in Transforming Agriculture,"
Hugh Locke is president and co-founder of the Smallholder Farmers Alliance (SFA), a non-profit working with small-scale family farmers to help feed and reforest a renewed Haiti. He is author of The Haiti Experiment, and writes and lectures extensively on smallholder farming and sustainable development. Earlier in his career Hugh was director of the Office of Public Information at the Baha'i International Community in New York and served as a member of the program committee for the 1992 Baha'i World Congress. He was mentored by forester and environmentalist Richard St. Barbe Baker (1889 – 1982), established the Baker archives at the University of Saskatchewan, and continues to serve as literary trustee.
- Payam Akhavan: "Equality and Justice, Global Perspectives" and
"Countering War, Hate, and Violence Assembly."
- Emily Wright: "Making Interreligious Chaplaincy Education Meaningfully Inclusive" and "A New Cup of Grace—A Ukulele Opera
- Hooshmand Badee: "Interfaith Peacemaking Perspectives from Across the World."
- Nader Saiedi: Presenting the new documentary film The Gate: Dawn of the Bahá'í Faith.
- Paul Hanley: "Man of the Trees: Richard St. Barbe Baker, the First Global Environmentalist."
- JoAnn Borovicka: "Amazing Faiths! An Interactive Workshop on Interfaith Dialogue."
- Robert Atkinson: "New Thoughts in Interfaith Spirituality."
- Robert Stockman: "The Characteristics of Bahá'í Interfaith Dialogue." Candace Hill: "From Shiraz to Chicago: Bahá'í Women of the East and the West"
- Edward Price: "The Divine Curriculum: Understanding the Báb, Divine Educator for the Modern Era."
- Sovaida Maani Ewing: "Achieving World Peace: Bahá'í and Catholic Teachings."
- Jean Muza: "Bahá'í Civic Engagement: How to Maneuver in America's Divisive Political Landscape."
- Robert Atkinson: "The Golden Rule as the Basis for a Global Justice System: An Interfaith Perspective with a Call to Action."
- Edward Price: "The Divine Curriculum Concept as a Framework for Interfaith Inclusion and Love."
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The Hindu Swami Agnivesh said that instead of spending trillions of dollars on the war system, the peoples of the world need to unite and create a world parliament based on an Earth Constitution. He said that "without a world government, we cannot solve our major world problems." [Black News 6Feb2022]
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World Parliament of Religions; Toronto, ON |
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