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The Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions announces its Fifth Parliament of the World’s Religions, hosted in Melbourne, Australia December 3-9, 2009.
Join us for the 2009 Parliament of the World’s Religions, December 3-9, 2009, in Melbourne, Australia!
The Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions invites all people of faith, spirit and goodwill to encounter the vast and rich diversity of the world’s religious and spiritual traditions and to take part in over 500 events, including keynote addresses, seminars, conferences, dialogues, performances, concerts and exhibitions. The 2009 Parliament will bring together more than 8,000 people from across the world, including renowned spiritual, religious and political leaders.
The theme of the 2009 Parliament, Make a World of Difference: Hearing each other, Healing the earth, underscores the opportunity for religious and spiritual communities to act on environmental and humanitarian concerns, by cultivating awareness of our global interconnectedness. Key issues will be addressed from religious and spiritual perspectives, including:
• Healing the Earth with Care and Concern
• Reconciling with Indigenous Peoples
• Overcoming Poverty in a Patriarchal World
• Securing Food and Water for all People
• Building Peace in the Pursuit of Justice
• Creating Social Cohesion in Village and City
• Sharing Wisdom in the Search for Inner Peace.
To register or gain more information about this incredible event, visit our website.
www.parliamentofreligions.org
Our History
First held in Chicago in 1893, the Parliament of the World’s Religions brings together the world’s religious and spiritual communities, their leaders and their followers to a gathering where peace, diversity and sustainability are discussed and explored in the context of interreligious understanding and cooperation.
As the world’s largest interreligious gathering, the Parliament will
- Convene religious and civil leaders and people of faith, spirit and goodwill from at least or more than 80 countries
- Foster interreligious, civil and cross-cultural dialogue on important local, national, and global issues
- Invite over 10,000 participants to work together for a just, peaceful, and harmonious society
- Have global appeal, covering social concerns including understanding and respecting diversity, peace and Indigenous reconciliation
- Engage worldwide religious, spiritual, secular, environmental, business and educational leaders to seek commitment and practical solutions through dialogue.
- Promote and encourages social cohesion within societies locally and across the world.
The Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions was created to cultivate harmony among the world's religious and spiritual communities and foster their engagement with the world and its guiding institutions in order to achieve a just, peaceful and sustainable world.
To accomplish this, we invite individuals and communities who are equally invested in attaining this goal.
Our Vision
The vision of the Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions is of a just, peaceful and sustainable world in which:
- Religious and spiritual communities live in harmony and contribute to a better world from their riches of wisdom and compassion
- Religious and cultural fears and hatreds are replaced with understanding and respect
- People everywhere come to know and care for their neighbors
- The richness of human and religious diversity is woven into the fabric of communal, civil, societal and global life
- The world's most powerful and influential institutions move beyond narrow self-interest to realize common good
- The Earth and all life are cherished, protected, healed and restored
- All people commit to living out their highest values and aspirations.
Our Approach
The Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions seeks to promote interreligious harmony, rather than unity. The problem with seeking unity among religions is the risk of loss of the unique and precious character of each individual religious and spiritual tradition; this understanding is key to our framework.
Interreligious harmony, on the other hand, is an attainable and highly desirable goal. Such an approach respects, and is enriched by, the particularities of each tradition. Moreover, within each tradition are the resources (philosophical, theological and spiritual teachings and perspectives) that enable each to enter into respectful, appreciative and cooperative relationships with persons and communities of other traditions.
We live in a world of difference. Yet, we are interdependent. Nowhere is learning to live with difference more important than religion.
Too often, religion is misused as an instrument for division and injustice, betraying the very ideals and teachings that lie at the heart of each of the world's great traditions. At the same time, religious and spiritual traditions shape the lives of billions in wise and wonderful ways. They gather people in communities of shared beliefs and practices. When these diverse communities work in harmony for the common good, there is hope that the world can be transformed.
Over the years, the Council has initiated dialogues and nurtured relationships among people of difference. In doing so the Council has provided a framework for expressing many visions of a just, peaceful and sustainable future. In the process, religious and spiritual communities have discovered a shared commitment to ethical principles.
This shared commitment has opened the way for a new era of cooperative action among the world's religious and spiritual communities as well as civil and political societies. The well-being of the Earth and all life depends on this collaboration.
Early Bird Discounts for the Melbourne Parliament of the World's Religions Ends March 31, 2009
Take advantage of this offer and be a part of the world’s largest interfaith event. Register today and join thousands from all over the world in Melbourne, Australia on December 3-9, 2009!
ORGANISE A GROUP OF 10 OR MORE AND RECEIVE 10% OFF DISCOUNTS ALREADY AVAILABLE
Register as a group and take advantage of the additional discount. Space will be available for groups to meet and debrief during the Parliament.
Click here for more information about group participation and group rates.
DISCOUNTS FOR STUDENTS AND SENIORS
In addition to the early bird rate, discounts are offered to groups, students, and seniors.
Click here for registration fees and categories.