Inviting Sikhs of the World to the 2015 Parliament 
The Parliament invites our Sikh friends everywhere to the largest and oldest global interfaith summit marking its return to the United States in 2015 for the first time in 22 years.
What: The Parliament of the World's Religions, the world’s largest and oldest interfaith summit
Theme: Reclaiming the Heart of Our Humanity: Working Together for a World of Compassion, Peace, Justice and Sustainability
Who: More than 10,000 participants from 80 countries and 50 religious and spiritual traditions
When: October 15 – 19, 2015
Where: Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
How: Visit 2015.ParliamentOfReligions.org for all the exciting details and exclusive early bird savings at unprecedented rates discounted up to 70 percent!
Sikhism is at the heart of the interfaith movement.
Sikhs have been central to the interfaith movement at all of the modern Parliaments of the World's Religions. Chair of the 1993 Parliament Sikh Host Committee and Trustee Emeritus Dr. Balwant Singh Hansra says "the name of the Sikh faith became quite common after the 1993 Parliament, which was lacking in earlier years."
More than twenty years later, emerging voices of Sikh-Americans like Parliament Ambassador Simran Jeet Singh are now engaging media, academia, government, and many institutions of society with the mission of the interfaith movement. A more peaceful, just and sustainable world is coming.
 Parliaments are known as the powerhouse of the interfaith movement. Thousands still recall the Barcelona experience at the 2004 Parliament where Sikhs sharing daily langar with thousands of people showed the goodness of faith to the world. Reflecting on his fondest memory of the 2004 Parliament, participant Rev. John Strickland of the Atlanta Unity Church said,
"It is one thing to talk a good talk, but the Sikhs walked their walk."
Chardi Kala has always been a visionary contribution to the Parliament's global interfaith summits in the United States, Spain, South Africa, and Australia. Read More Parliament History...
What You Will Experience at the 2015 Parliament
- Sharing beliefs and practices, learning from others, expanding networks
- Pairing with other religions to present together the experience of working with each other for a just, peaceful, and sustainable world
- Collaborating on generating strategies to confront critical issues faced by humanity, such as climate change, hunger, poverty and violence
All of this will take place through hundreds of presentations, workshops, seminars, films, music, religious observances and performances. Several thousand people from around the world will submit proposals, which are assessed by several panels of experts.
 Keynote speakers for the 2015 Parliament will include luminaries you will know and rising stars of many sectors, including the sciences and technology. (See which major keynotes announced here) Major religious leaders like His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Nobel Laureates like Desmond Tutu and political leaders like President Mandela and President Jimmy Carter have addressed the Parliaments as well.
Sikhs Serving as Trustees on the Parliament Board Say...
"In my opinion the Parliament not only has a long history of bringing various diverse faiths together but also encouraging them to appreciate a number of similarities that all faiths have in common instead of highlighting their dissimilarities. It is a platform to discuss and find solutions to our common problems and to build lasting relationships between various communities."
-Kuldeep Singh
"The Parliament of world religions has the capacity to bring people of all the religions and diverse cultures and traditions together to solve the world problems, and work for the betterment of the human race and our planet earth. The 2015 Parliament is an attempt to achieve this."
-Manohar Singh Grewal
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 We invite you to become part of a Sikh legacy in the Parliament. Thousands of Sikhs participating in the Parliament have helped carve the principles of the Global Ethic, built lasting relationships with other spiritual communities, and will in 2015 set a new precedent for the future interfaith movement.
Read more about Sikhs at the Parliament
Sikhs at the Parliament on YouTube
Please contact Parliament Trustees Manohar Grewal or Kuldeep Singh to learn more about Sikh programs at the 2015 Parliament .
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