World Sikh Or­gan­i­sa­tion of Canada hosts World In­ter­faith Har­mony Week in Sur­rey to fos­ter un­der­stand, love, re­spect and shar­ing in a strife-torn hate-filled world.

As in­tol­er­ance is be­ing fed by a sec­tion of so­ci­ety and world po­lit­i­cal lead­ers, there is a cry­ing need for un­der­stand­ing of the re­li­gious ethos of world re­li­gions and share the same with prac­tis­ing peo­ple of other faiths. Fur­ther­ing its com­mit­ment to un­der­stand­ing and peace, the World Sikh Or­ga­ni­za­tion of Canada (WSO) will en­able the host­ing of the World In­ter­faith Har­mony Week in Sur­rey, British Co­lum­bia on Jan­u­ary 28th.  

This an­nual event sees faith com­mu­ni­ties and in­ter­faith groups come to­gether for World In­ter­faith Har­mony Week to show­case the much needed work they do for the com­mon good of all.  The World In­ter­faith Har­mony Week was adopted by the United Na­tions in Oc­to­ber 2010 and since then is be­ing ob­served reg­u­larly. It was pro­posed by the King of Jor­dan.

The UN res­o­lu­tion among other ob­jec­tives, “reaf­firms that mu­tual un­der­stand­ing and in­ter­re­li­gious di­a­logue con­sti­tute im­por­tant di­men­sions of a cul­ture of peace.”

This event will be a great op­por­tu­nity to cel­e­brate In­ter­faith Har­mony through mu­sic.

Bhavjin­der Kaur, Na­tional Vice Pres­i­dent, WSO

This year, work­ing in part­ner­ship with Daugh­ters of the Drum, the Naad Foun­da­tion, Mul­ti­faith Ac­tion So­ci­ety and Sri Guru Singh Sabha Gur­d­wara, WSO is help­ing to host the event “Cel­e­brat­ing Our Dif­fer­ences: Cre­at­ing Pos­i­tive Change in a Di­vided World”. Through sto­ries and songs from many spir­i­tual tra­di­tions, the pro­gram will ex­plore how to cre­ate pos­i­tive change in a time of great un­cer­tainty and fear and how in­di­vid­u­als can pos­i­tively em­power them­selves go­ing for­ward. 

In a press re­lease, WSO Na­tional VP Bhavjin­der Kaur said, “this event will be a great op­por­tu­nity to cel­e­brate In­ter­faith Har­mony through mu­sic.  We are ex­cited to sup­port this pro­gram that brings to­gether peo­ple of di­verse back­grounds to cel­e­brate our dif­fer­ences and also ex­plore what we share.”

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Sri Guru Singh Sabha Gur­d­wara at 8115 132nd St, Sur­rey, BC will be the venue where the tra­di­tional Sikh com­mu­nal meal will be served and en­try will be open for one and all.