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Theme: Founders of Religion - Model for Humanity

Continuing 28 years of interfaith respect, mutual understanding and harmony among world's faiths, the 28th World Religions Conference is scheduled for Sunday, October 26, 2008 to be held at the prestigious Humanities Theatre, J.G. Hagey Hall, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

This event has been drawing several hundred from the region and across Canada. The World Religions Conference of Waterloo is now the largest Multi-Faith event of its kind in Canada.

Distinguished scholars from various faiths and philosophical traditions will be representing Aboriginal Peoples' Religions, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Sikh Religion and Humanism (Atheism) and will deliberate at the conference and on the theme: Founders of Religion - Model for Humanity. Faith groups will present special spiritual poems and songs, and set up displays and exhibits. Lunch, Dinner and refreshments will be provided at the conference venue.

This conference has built a reputation for bringing together scholars of high standing and stimulating deep and thought-provoking exchange of ideas. Several local, provincial and national leaders will also be in attendance and deliver greetings to the delegates.

The event will run from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm. The event will consist of three sessions:

a) An opening session, where in addition to greetings from dignitaries, each speaker will give an opening 5 minute introduction of "My Faith".

b) A theme session after Lunch Break, where each speaker will speak on the theme "Founders of Religion - Model for Humanity" for 15 minutes. Each speech will be followed by a religious and cultural presentation consisting of a religious poem or song, by a group of representatives of the the respective faith.

c) A concluding and interactive session will wrap up the conference where all speakers will respond to questions from the audience.

The Event if free and open to the public. More updates on the upcoming event will be posted soon.

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Gursev Singh - Waterloo

Representing Sikhism

Teacher and motivational speaker, Gursev graduated from University of Waterloo and has a B.Ed. from Queen’s University. Spirituality is one of his foremost passions. A musician who loves singing the hymns from the holy Guru Granth Sahib. In his free time he shares his singing and experiences at Sikh retreats, conferences, and congregations across North America. Gursev is a High School teacher in Kitchener-Waterloo.

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Register for the event here

For more info call: 519-722-0841 or Toll Free: 1-877-INFO-WRC

http://www.worldreligionsconference.org/index.php

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Gursev Singh representing Sikhism.

We did try to record audio for veerjees speech but due to technical difficulties, it did not come out. But may we add, veerjee delivered sikhis message very powerfully and many that were there at the event were quite impressed.

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