Barry University to host Interfaith Panel Discussion next Tuesday [October 30]

Barry University to host Interfaith Panel Discussion next Tuesday [October 30]

MIAMI SHORES, Florida — Barry University will host an Interfaith Panel Discussion ‘Killing in the Name of G-d: perspectives in the Abrahamic faiths” that will be held at Barry University next Tuesday, October 30, from 4:30-6:30 p.m. More than 100 students, faculty and staff are expected to attend this year’s event that will be held on BU’s main campus in Miami Shores in Andreas 112.

The Abrahamic faiths are the three religions of Abraham – Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and the discussion will highlight a guest speaker from each faith.

The panel will feature guest speakers Rabbi Mario Rojzman, Imam Shaikh Shafayat, and Associate Professor of Theology at BU Dr. Ed Sunshine and the three will explore teaching in the Abrahamic faiths on killing in the name of religion.

Rabbi Mario Rojzman was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and served for 11 years as Rabbi at Bet El Community, as a pioneer in Latin American Conservative Judaism. In 1991, during the Gulf War, Rabbi Rojzman was invited by the World Zionist Organization to be one of the founders of Mercaz Olami, the Zionist Arm of the Conservative Movement and became Worldwide Vice President for five years.

He has been in Miami since 2002, where he has been Rabbi at Beth Torah - Benny Rok Campus since 2003. Because of his background in social affairs, he has been a guest speaker for various organizations, including as Inter American Development Bank, UNESCO and the World Bank. His activism in inter-religious affairs has led him to both Jerusalem and Rome, where he met Pope John Paul II.

Imam Shaikh Shafayat was born on March 19, 1959 in the Trinidad West Indies, where he grew up and attended college. He graduated in 1981 as an Islamic Scholar from Darul Uloom Deoband in India, which is the oldest Islamic Institute in the Indo – continent. He has been lecturing for the past 10 years at colleges, universities, churches, and synagogues on Islam and world religions, and for the past five years he has been lecturing to the Pembroke Pines Police TRAINING PROGRAMS on cultural diversity, community awareness, human rights, crime and terrorism.

Dr. Edward Sunshine is an Associate Professor of Theology at Barry University. He received his Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He teaches and publishes in areas of Christian social and sexual ethics, interpreting the relationship of official Roman Catholic teachings with historical and modern developments. His recent book, A Just Defense of the Natural Freedom of Slaves: All Slaves Should Be Free, is a critical edition and translation of a three-hundred-year-old abolitionist manuscript from Cuba in Latin.

For more information and to R.S.V.P contact Michelle Brown at mbrown@mail.barry.edu or phone 305-899-3389.