2011‑2022, and is preserved here for archival purposes.
Launched on Canada's Sesquicentennial Anniversary to capture Canada's stories of faith from coast to coast, the Voices from the Crowd initiative serves as a powerful collection of unique narrative. We continue to collect stories that reveal the depth and diversity of Canada's unique landscape of faith. Do you have a story to share? Add your voice to the collection today!
Mosques, synagogues, and churches share in sponsoring Syrian refugees. Read about their interfaith philanthropy here.
The Better Together refugee sponsorship group is a network of 10 Northumberland-area churches that almost simultaneously decided they each wanted to sponsor refugees ...
After a long career in labour law, Rabbi Shalom Schachter got his rabbinical ordination 11 years ago. In both careers, his vocation has always been that of a peacemaker. Read his story here.
In the 1980s, Shalom felt that the 15 week parental leave policies prohibited him from being involved in raising his children, and discouraged his wife from pursuing her vocational interests Today, Shalom works part time as a Rabbi at Beth Tikvah Synagogue in Toronto, and part time as a legal adviso...
The Anglican Parish of St. George's, born in 1841, has been operating in a small town just outside London, Ontario, for 175 years. Read the story here.
One hundred and seventy-five years ago, a group of South Western Ontario settlers held their first service together as the Anglican Parish of St In February the choir joined with the neighbouring United Church choir to perform a concert of Sunday anthems, honouring the musical legacy of St It was Ro...
The World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) is a global human rights organization based in Toronto. Read about their work at the UN implementing interfaith humanitarian and development aid.
Karin Achtelstetter, General Secretary of World Association for Christian Communication, recently recalled a story from a worldwide Sikh organization represented at a UN interfaith roundtable, who talked about their approach to development aid The World Association for Christian Communication (WACC)...
Six years ago, after a decade in the House of Commons, David Anderson was in search of a new issue to pursue as an MP. Eventually, freedom of religion became his personal and vocational pursuit.
Despite his parliamentary emphasis on international religious freedom, however, Anderson acknowledges deepening concern about intolerance toward religious belief and practice here in Canada The group’s work was influential in Canada’s own House of Commons Subcommittee on International Human Rights i...
Lloyd Mackey set out to highlight Canadian Christian leaders after a long career in faith-based journalism. Read about Mackey's Encyclopedia project here.
As it stands, the site is populated with reprinted content from Michael Clarke’s 1998 book Canada: Portraits of Faith, but Mackey and team intend to go further with features of contemporary leaders He to touches a bit on the faith aspect, how the faith will influence the kind of leadership or the ki...
On a recent visit to Winnipeg, I toured the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) with Dr. Clint Curle, Senior Advisor to the President of CMHR. As we visited, we discussed how religious freedom is explored by the museum’s curators. More specifically, we looked at the tensions that exist between competing rights and privileges in Canada and across the globe.
Comprising various artifacts from Canadian Indian Residential schools, government buildings, treatment centres, churches, and other significant places, The Witness Blanket “stands as a national monument to recognise the atrocities of the Indian Residential School era, honour the children, and symbol...
In 2013, the Baha'i National Spiritual Assembly presented a submission to the Truth and Reconciliation Comission. Read about their presentation in a repost from the Baha'i Community of Canada.
Deloria Bighorn, Chair of the Canadian National Spiritual Assembly, the national governing body of the Baha’i Community of Canada, accompanied by her daughter Jelana, presented the Baha’i submission to Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Friday 20 September, 2013 in Vancouver By bringin...
Jessikah Kumordzie, recent graduate of the University of Waterloo’s political science program has been working with Life Change Adventures to effect positive change in the hearts and minds of youth living in Waterloo’s low-income neighbourhoods.
Over the next two years, Jessikah continued to grow in her faith, aided through one-on-one meetings with her youth group leader, Rebecca Ferguson [It’s] community, and when I think about community, I think about people doing life together and supporting one another, uplifting and encouraging one ano...
The communal objective of present day Ramadan is no different than how our early generation of role models perceived it. Ramadan is not just a time to rejoice upon its arrival, dismay upon its departure, lose the rewards eventually, regress to the previous state, and wait for another one year for its return. Instead, Ramadan should be viewed with this broader outlook of community building and welcomed wholeheartedly for what it aspires to establish within us..
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