2019 – Posted in: Daily News – Tags: World Council of Churches

GLOBAL SIKH COUNCIL

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Topic covers: Council, Role & Significance, World Council of Churches

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To commemorate the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak (1469), the first guru of the Sikhs, World Council of Churches, Geneva, in collaboration with the Global Sikh Council will organise a Christian-Sikh dialogue in Geneva on July 5, with the dialogue focusing on the theme ‘Pursuing Peace in a Pluralistic World’.

The city council will also organise an inter-faith meeting in Zurich, with each faith projecting their philosophy and as part of it, we will tie turbans on five young Sikhs.
The 3rd Annual General Body Meeting of the Global Sikh Council (GSC) will be held from 4th – 7th July 2019 in Langenthal, Switzerland.
‘Sikh’ is the thought and ‘Guru’ is the knowledge.

Global Sikh Council

Global Sikh Council (GSC), an organisation that is the Voice of Sikhs Around The World.
A global Sikh body formed to address various issues of Sikhs around the world, promote art, culture, language and initiate dialogues and discussions on various concerns of the Sikhs.
This year GSC’s forthcoming convention and annual general meeting from July 4 to 7 in Langenthal\Geneva is dedicated to Guru Nanak’s philosophy of peace and concept of universal brotherhood.

Theme

The theme of peace, is intrinsic to the Christian and Sikh faith traditions and the conference will adopt a holistic understanding of peace which is intrinsic to the Christian and Sikh faith traditions, bearing in mind that peace without justice is incomplete.

Role/Significance of GSC

The growth of xenophobia (dislike of or prejudice against people from other countries) fuelled by religious fundamentalism, the mixing of politics and religious bigotry and the increasing atrocities on religious minorities continue to remind people of faith of the need to redouble our efforts towards peace making.
This encounter, will be a modest effort to foster a new partnership that can effectively decipher the signs of the times and offer responses which are courageous and committed.

World Council of Churches

The World Council of Churches is a fellowship of churches which confess the Lord Jesus Christ as God and Saviour according to the scriptures, and therefore seek to fulfil together their common calling to the glory of the one God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

It is a community of churches on the way to visible unity in one faith and one eucharistic fellowship, expressed in worship and in common life in Christ.

Source: Indian Express

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