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Joyce Dickson, congregational designated minister at the Grace United Church speaks to the audience at the fourth annual Interfaith Symposium at Lakeland College.
The message of the Interfaith Symposium was “Love for all, hatred for none” said Rizwana Ahmad, President of the Lloydminster Ahmadiyya Muslim Women Association, which took place this past Saturday evening at Lakeland College.
The meeting of faiths brought roughly 90 attendees, nearly twice as many compared to last year’s Symposium. The event has run four years in a row at Lakeland College.
The Symposium named ‘Portrayal of my Faith in the Media… is this my Religion?’ Aimed to bring about a dialogue between followers of Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, and Sikhism, to highlight commonalities and share their views that, in many instances, intersect.
Erin Pollard, a self-identified United Church follower, in her fourth year of attending the Interfaith Symposium said, “I really believe that in order for you to be understanding you have to know what their faith is about. If you don’t have that you will continue to be ignorant about it and that is where discrimination comes from.”
Although not without some heated debate Pollard said. Pollard, who was particularly enthralled when the point of discussion shifted in the symposium to the media’s portrayal of women’s rights in the Muslim world.
“A lot of people really don’t understand how women, especially in the Islamic religion, live day to day and… continue reading at meridianbooster.com
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