Prayer on a theme of Journeying

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The following extract might provide you with some inspiration on a theme of Sharing our Journey. It documents the journey of people from diverse religious and cultural backgrounds who have come together to ‘Be the Bridge’ between people from their own background and those who are different to themselves. There are also learning activities on the site. What sort of a bridge do we need to be as we journey in life? How can we enable a bridge? What would break the bridge? Etc.

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South Australia: 2nd Annual Australian Islamic Schooling Conference

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Educators, policy makers and thought leaders gathered on the 11th and 12th of July for the second Annual Australian Islamic Schooling Conference held at picturesque Yurebilla, known also as Mt Lofty in Adelaide Hills. The theme explored at the conference was that of curriculum in Islamic schooling.

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The “Buddhist pop song” that took sixth at Eurovision

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On Saturday, an Italian song about the emptiness of Western consumer culture came sixth at Europe’s wildly popular song competition, Eurovision. Occidentali’s Karma, by Francesco Gabbani, was Italy’s entry to the contest, and while the song (which is flush with Buddhist references) didn’t win, it was a hit with critics. The song was the most watched music video of the contest and was chosen as a favourite by fans and the press.

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UK: Staffordshire Agreed Syllabus in RE

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The role of Religious Education in schools is to help prepare and equip all pupils for life and citizenship in today’s diverse and plural Britain, through fostering in each pupil an increasing level of religious literacy. What does it mean to be ‘religiously literate’? A religiously literate person would have an established and growing knowledge and understanding of beliefs, practices, spiritual insights and secular world views. In the context of their own considered standpoint they would also be open to engaging with the views of others in a plural world.
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Bahá’í RE for Schools

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This new website – Bahá’í RE for Schools – aims to provide good quality and engaging materials to help teachers of RE explore the Bahá’í Faith with pupils across the primary and secondary age ranges. The site provides basic information as well as freely downloadable presentations, lesson plans and schemes, ideas for activities, and links to other online resources.

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