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In keeping with its charter, Interfaith Grand River has, since its inception in the immediate aftermath of the September 11th. 2001 terrorist attack on New York City, endeavoured to defend and promote religious diversity and tolerance in Waterloo region and the surrounding area.
The list below is only a sampling of our activities in the past years. A more in-depth history is currently being written.
IGR has:
- provided the members with a setting in which they could meet with members of other spiritual and religious traditions in order to enhance mutual understanding,
- met with representatives of the mainstream media in order to learn how to better relay concerns involving spiritual issues,
- provided the members of IGR with exposure to media-experts in order to better understand media issues,
- provided religious and spiritual background material to professional journalists,
- responded publicly to expressions of religious hatred in the mainstream media,
- facilitated interfaith visitation between diverse spiritual and faith communities,
- provided an interfaith panel to present a spiritual perspective at a national conference on violence in the school-system,
- met with representatives of Grand River Hospital to discuss chaplaincy issues,
- provided input to Grand River Hospital regarding the design of the spiritual space being planned as part of the new expansion of the downtown facilities,
- provided support for the Interfaith Conferences held annually at the University of Waterloo,
- organized a September 11th. Peace Walk from downtown Waterloo to Kitchener in order to publicize the need for peace and non-violence,
- provided an interfaith panel for a meeting, hosted by the Spiritual Heritage Education Network, on the issue of religious intolerance,
- provided participants for the interfaith dialogue initiative of the Kitchener-Waterloo Council of Churches,
- provided members to the Interfaith Support Committee of the Aids Committee of Cambridge, Kitchener, Waterloo and Area (ACCKWA).
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