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!
Gertie Groenweg's faith called her to serve her neighbours in distress. Reporting from Edmonton, Peter Stockland watches how faith communities have responded to the Fort McMurray Fire.
“I have such admiration for first responders in any emergency, and especially for what the first responders were able to do in Fort McMurray,” Jacquie says “Certainly as Catholics, we are called to corporal works of mercy, and that’s what this is ...
Syrian refugee, Basel Abou Hamrah, volunteers at Edmonton's Evacuee Reception Centre to help residents of Fort McMurray who were forced to flee in the wake of forest fire catastrophe.
Last week, he signed up as a volunteer to help at Edmonton’s Evacuee Reception Centre to help residents of Fort McMurray forced to flee south from a May 3 wildfire that destroyed their northern Alberta community A Druze Christian, with a faith rooted in all three of the great Abrahamic monotheisms, ...
Peter Stockland reports from Edmonton in the wake of the Fort McMurray fires to see how faith communities respond to the catastrophe: "As she seems to do with everyone, Dalia Abdellatif listens calmly to the agitated young man in front of her at Edmonton’s Evacuee Reception Centre."
Arriving in Canada with her physician husband and children five years ago, Dalia began volunteering with the Islamic Family and Social Services Association, then helped with Edmonton’s Mennonite Centre for Newcomers and then Edmonton Emergency Relief Services Society (EERSS), where she is both a vol...
"A woman of valor, who can find?" asks the book of Proverbs. "Far beyond rubies is her value." I had found my woman of valor in an everlasting friendship with Tanya Khan.
I first met Tanya about 20 years ago when I worked for an organization that taught interfaith understanding to school kids She and I organized the first visit of Muslims, including Imams, to the Toronto Holocaust Centre, where most of the audience wept at hearing a survivor’s story ...
For Dr. Sam Reimer, Professor of Sociology at Crandall University in New Brunswick, it isn’t hard to determine whether faith communities contribute to the flourishing of Canadian society.
Reimer was interested to find that these philanthropic qualities amongst religious people weren’t only specifically applied in faith spheres “We know that people who are generous or volunteeristic are those who have a couple qualities: one is that they’ve been taught values related to generosity and...
What I have in mind is the type of an event which should be told over and again. What I am about to describe here is unusual, simply because of its infrequent occurrence.
Both Rabbi Erwin Schild, who is Rabbi Emeritus of Adath Israel Synagogue in the city of Toronto where he served for more than forty years and his wife Laura are the center piece of this brief but profoundly significant story Barbara Boraks, Executive Secretary of the Christian Jewish Dialogue of Tor...
Since 1953, the 27th of Nisan on the Jewish calendar, which in 2016 falls today, has been marked as a day for observing with solemn ceremony the most terrible tragedy to befall our people.
At the Shaarey Zedek Synagogue in Winnipeg, in partnership with the Freeman Family Foundation Holocaust Centre of the Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada, we have taken this liturgical observance of Yom Hashoah one step further: the Megillat Hashoah reading is an interfaith event ...
Fifteen years into ministry, he questioned himself rigorously about carrying on as a priest. Thirty-five years later, now retired, he still sometimes asks himself “why” he said yes time after time.
Walsh came out of the seminary eager to minister in a Church he believed was renewing and re-orienting itself in accordance with God’s calling ...
A little over a week ago, Jews all over the world marked the Passover Seders together. Read Belle Jarniewski's article on collective story-telling and heritage.
In one of his introductions to the Megillah, Rabbi Reuven Hammer, past president of the International Rabbinical Assembly, elaborated a new imperative of Jewish life; a new responsibility: “We must all view ourselves as if we had personally experienced the Shoah ...
Canada’s first Mosque, Al Rashid, is a not just a piece of history. Today, it’s a vibrant community in Edmonton that brings together thousands of Muslims and non-Muslims alike each year.
While this time it didn’t require the support to finish the project, the charitable spirit of the community is emblematic of Edmonton’s hospitality toward Al Rashid “When they built the new Al Rashid, the very large one here on the north side of Edmonton, I know they went out to people from the Jewi...