Exploring Iraq Today – Implications for Christians and Muslims in Australia: Ecumenical and Interfaith Commission

The Ecumenical and Interfaith Commission of the Catholic Archiodese of Melbourne invites you to:

Exploring Iraq Today – Implications for Christians and Muslims in Australia
An event for all Melbourne Catholics and their friends

Date: 19th November, 2014  Time: 7:30pm to 9:00pm
Location: The Knox Lecture Theatre in the Cardinal Knox Centre - 383 Albert Street East Melbourne

Do you want to know more about

• The current situation in Iraq and its background?

• The Christian and Muslim communities of Iraq?

• The rise and nature of the “Islamic State”?

•  Appropriate relationships between Christians and Muslims in Australia today?

This free event is a timely opportunity aimed at providing information and answering your questions.

Speakers:

· Very Rev. Denis Stanley, Episcopal Vicar for Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations

· Prof. Nasir Butrous, Member of the Ecumenical and Interfaith Commission

Associate Professor Nasir Butrous is a Chaldean Catholic and a native of the city of Mosul (Biblical Nineveh) in Iraq. He is the Associate Professor of Management at the Australian Catholic University-Faculty of Law and Business in Melbourne. Nasir was previously a member of the Commission for Ecumenical and Interfaith Relationships in the Archdiocese of Brisbane. He has regularly spoken on his perspective on Islam from his lived experience of Catholic–Muslim relations both in Iraq and in Australia.

For more information and RSVP contact The Ecumenical and Interfaith Commission: Telephone: 0400 978 93  |  Email: eic@cam.org.au