By Gian Singh Kotli
KAMLOOPS – The World Religions Conference organized by Ahmaddiya Muslim Jamaat of BC at Thomson Rivers University, Kamloops on 15 March was quite impressive. The entire program was quite informative and inspiring as the learned speakers expressed their views on the topic of, “Existence of God” and thereby sought peace and interfaith harmony for the entire human race in accordance with their faith perspective.
Chaudhary Mohammad Aslam Shad, Regional President, BC welcomed guests and called upon Christopher J. Foulds, Managing Editor of “Kamloops this Week” to take over as the Chairperson and Moderator of the program.
Dr. Jap Warvani presented; Buddhist perspective, Pastor Alan S. Vaal; Christianity, Known Hindi poet and scholar Acharya S.P. Dwivedi; Hinduism, Imam Balal Khokhar; Islam, Mr. Ivan G. Somlai; Jewish Faith and Gian Singh Kotli presented Sikh perspective.
The program was quite inspiring as all the speakers nicely conveyed the well meaning message of maintaining peace and harmony in the world as enshrined in the holy pages of their respective faith books. Coordinator, Rizwan Peerzada thanked and presented gifts to the speakers. The credit of organizing such humanitarian conferences goes to Mr. Rizwan Peerzada and his team of dedicated volunteers who are frequently organizing such conferences to spread the Islamic message of peace and harmony and also invite learned speakers of other religions to say the same as ordained by their respective faiths. At the end all made individual prayer for peace and well being of the entire human race as ordained by their respective faiths.
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