Interfaith
Dinner
28
march 2003
Scientologists celebrated the
Founder’s Birthday (Mr. L. Ron Hubbard) 28th of March 2003 with a huge
event and prior, an Interfaith Dinner.
The event had many opinion leaders and
guests of various faiths in attendance. They first came to a dinner in cosy and
quaint restaurant in Circular Quay. The guests were Henry Dang, Buddhist
Federation Australia; Greg Stone and Aila Willitts, International
& Interreligious Federation for World Peace; Jessie
Singh, Sikh and President of Multifaith Association South Australia; Mathew
& Raquel Charet, Sydney University Dept of Religion and Rabbi Hathem Saed of
the Mandean Gnostics (originally from Iran), and Virginia Stewart, Cyrus Brooks
and Vicki Hanna representing Scientology.
Per the reports back it was really fun
and friendships were struck and objectives made.
Cyrus, Aila and Henry spoke about
making a real active "doing" sort of interfaith group. In addition to
the above, many other opinion leaders came to the Birthday event: Dr. Qazi Ahmad
(Muslim of Indian heritage, who had previously got the Dianetics
video in Urdu
and Cyrus gave him Scientology, Theology
and Practice of a Contemporary Religion and Hubbard’s the Fundamentals of Thought); Adam Possamai (professor at University of
Western Sydney) and his wife; Katrine Vondinklage (Women’s Federation for
World Peace) and several others of the Philippine community that recently
bestowed an award on Mr. Hubbard march 13th. Aila commented that she never
deeply knew Mr. Hubbard but understood him so much more now. Dr. Qazi thoroughly
enjoyed the event and the enthusiasm of it. Later Cyrus met members of The
Most Noble Order of Rizal and also
presented the representative for New South Wales (state of Australia which
Sydney is part, for those of you not in Australia) Scientology,
Theology and Practice of a Contemporary Religion and Fundamentals of Thought. Mr Teddy Aritao suggested that it be part
of the library for members of the Order.