World Day of the Sick, February 11, 2015
On Sickness Sometimes I fancy that I could have created a better world than God…
Religious leaders met at Trillium Gift of Life Network (TGLN) yesterday to mark the United Nation’s World Interfaith Harmony Week. Their goal: to explore ways to deepen and broaden their multi faith outreach to encourage more Ontarians to register their consent to donate organs and tissues. Pictured left to right: Dr. Moira McQueen, Executive Director of the Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute; (back row) Dr. Frank Markel, President and CEO of TGLN; (front) Dr. Budhendranauth Doobay, spiritual leader of the Voice of the Vedas Cultural Sabha (Vishnu Mandir); (back) Rabbi Aaron Flanzraich, of Beth Sholom Synagogue and past chair of the Toronto Board of Rabbis; (front) Rabbi Dr. Reuven Bulka, Chair of the Board of Directors of TGLN and Congregation Machzikei Hadas in Ottawa; (back) Rev. Walter Kelly, Coordinator of the Toronto Police Service Chaplaincy Services. Missing from the photo were Senior Pastor Derek Mathers, The Church of St. Luke-Lutheran; Imam Hamid Slimi, President, Faith of Life Network; Dr. Abdella Idris Alli, Islamic Society of North America. (CNW Group/Trillium Gift of Life Network)