WASHINGTON, D.C: Guru Gobind Singh Foundation (GGSF), on behalf of the Sikhs will be participating in a North America Interfaith Conference to be held in the campus of University of Washington in Seattle from July 13 1990. This conference is sponsored by the North America Interfaith Network (NAIN) and hosted by Interfaith Council of Washington state.
The conference has been planned for clergy and laity, activists and academics, and features, lecturers and panel discussions involving representatives from thirteen religious traditions present in North America, These include Bahai, Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Islamic, Jain, Jewish, Latter Day Saints (Mormon), Native American, Shinto, Sikh, Unitarian Universalists and Zoroastrian. Also featured will be a special musical program, multi faith worship program, multi panel discussions and caucuses by faith.
In all the program will provide an exposure to a grand mosaic of religious points of view and an opportunity to meet a diversity of individuals from all over North America. The theme for this conference will be “Ethics in Action” In the House, the Workplace and the Environment.
Sikhs from all over North America will be participating in this conference, Dr. Rajwant Singh who is the Sikh member of the National planning committee, and an executive director of GGSF. Dr. Kirpal Singh from Iowa, S. Prem Singh from Vancouver, and many others will be representing the Sikhs and will participate in various events. S. Ralph Singh of Syracuse, NY will represent the Sikh faith on the panel discussion. The local Sikh community in Seattle and Northern California has been stirred in motion to participate in the conference. They have offered to host any member of the Sikh community who is coming here for the conference.
Many of the Sikh representatives who are coming here, were also part of the Sikh delegation in the NAINS first conference in Wichita Kansas, in 1988,
Dr. Rajwant Singh who is actively persuading many Sikhs to come to this conference said that, “we as Sikhs want to make our presence felt in the richly pluralistic religious environment of our continent. And this is on a golden. Opportunity to do that. We as Sikhs also want to contribute to make this society more just and peaceful.
Registration information can be obtained from Conference Management University of Washington Extension GH22 Seattle, WA 98195 (209) 5430888,
For local arrangement in the Sikh community please contact S. Dalvinder S. Gill (20 6) 2279912, Dr. Rajwant Singh (301) 384357 6.
Article extracted from this publication >> June 29, 1990
