Columbans are excited to be hosting a 'Mini-Parliament of the World Religions' at the Catholic Institute of Sydney on Wednesday 27th August.
The focus of the night will be a panel discussion with a group of young adults from diverse cultural and religious backgrounds who will discuss faith, life and dialogue in multireligious Sydney.
Alongside our panellists we are thrilled to have the amazing, acclaimed spoken word poet AHMAD AL-RADY perform on the evening! As a young community leader and the founder of the Bankstown Poetry Slam, Ahmad’s poetry is honest and from the heart.
Event Details
When: Wednesday 27th August
Time: 6:00pm - 8:30pm
Location: Catholic Institute of Sydney
99 Albert Rd, Strathfield NSW 2135
Panellists
Nicola Parise (Christian) is an honours student at UTS researching the relationship between language, death and grief in contemporary Australian society, with a large part of her thesis involving a piece of creative nonfiction writing.
Huihui (Buddhist) is passionate about conversations on learning, being and living the qualities of compassion, wisdom and mindfulness, through community-oriented projects of reconnact.org, of which she is a founder, and participating in Singapore's nationwide Inter-Religious Organisation (IRO Singapore).
Tahmina Ansari (Muslim) came to Australia with her family as refugees from Afghanistan in the early 90s. She has a degree in media from Macquarie University and works full time as a cadet journalist at ABC.
Nadeem Navidi (Baha’i) is a 25 year old Bahá'í youth from the Northern Beaches of Sydney who graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology last year.
Christopher D’Souza (Catholic) is currently in his first year of study at the Australian Catholic University with hopes of becoming a Religion and History teacher and counsellor. His past has been a winding path which has taken him all around and brought him back to Sydney. At just 17 he enlisted into the Australian army. Following that and a passion for his faith he later explored the Priesthood where he studied in the Melbourne seminary of Corpus Christi for the Military diocese.
Avia Madar (Jewish) was a Youth Leader at a Jewish youth centre before joining AUJS (Australian Union of Jewish Students) where she is a campus president. Avia is currently studying psychology at Macquarie University, and is completing an interfaith community relations internship at the Jewish Board of Deputuies.
For more information please contact:
Ashleigh Green
Centre for Christian-Muslim Relations
Columban Mission Institute
Phone:+ 61 2 9352 8013
Email: cmr.cmi@columban.org.au
For full event details and more information about our list of panellists please visit the Columban Facebook Event page (click here)
All welcome. We hope to see you there!