The Canada 150 Series continued on September 23 with a talk by Dr. Eboo Patel - a past member of President Barack Obama’s Inaugural Faith Council.
Patel, a leading voice in the movement for interfaith cooperation, spoke to a full audience at the Ismaili Centre Toronto on "Building a healthy, religiously diverse democracy."
During his lecture, Patel discussed the critical role all humans need to play in developing and encouraging effective practices and programs that promote interfaith understanding.
Canada prides itself on being a religiously diverse country. Yet here at home and around the world, tensions around questions of faith have increased in the public domain, in global affairs, in institutions of higher learning and in other organizations. Religious communities have both an opportunity and a responsibility to nurture effective interfaith leaders.
The Ismaili Centre Canada 150 Series launched in April earlier this year and commemorates Canada's 150th anniversary since confederation through a group of events in 2017 and 2018.
