Raheel
Raza
FORENSIC SCRIPTURES CONFERENCE
–
What the Qur’an reveals about the Bible or
How we can know each other.
New York
Riverside
Church
May
15–17, 2009
By Raheel Raza
Forensic Scriptures: what the Qur’an reveals about the Bible is
the title of a book by Brian Brown, a United Church Minister , and
author of Noah’s Other Son, Bridging the Gap Between the Bible and the Qur’an. Forensic Scriptures presents
the Qur’an as a sacred resource increasingly accessible to Jewish
and Christian scholars and students of the Scriptures.
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DOHA EDUCATES AND INTER-FAITHS
By Raheel Raza (Writing from Doha, Qatar)
What happens when you bring six US Ivy league
universities and set them up in the desert? You get Education City – new
frontiers in higher education for the Gulf region located in Qatar. You
also get students and faculty from all over the world and a mixture of
faiths and nationalities that Doha cutely calls MULTI-VERSITY.
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MULTI-FAITH
MELTDOWN IN ABBOTSFORD, BC
By Raheel Raza February 19, 2008
I’ve spent most of two decades in Canada,
involved in interfaith dialogue, but mostly in Ontario and mostly with
members of the Abrahamic faiths. Last week I was invited to Abbotsford.
BC. I’ve never been there and when I mentioned the name, a friend said
"interfaith in Abbotsford is when a Mennonite speaks to a Sikh
because those are the two largest, most conservative communities
there". I informed my well wisher that there would be six faiths
represented in BC, more that I have dialogued with here. So no judgments
please!
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by Leslie Gabriel Mezei