Hobsons Bay Interfaith Network

The network includes over 30 different faith leaders and representatives from around Hobsons Bay who gather to engage in interfaith dialogue, share each other's stories and traditions, enter each other's places of worship, and organise community activities that support interfaith and intercultural connections. The network's purpose is to promote connection, respect and acceptance for the integrity of each other’s beliefs, cultures and traditions. A desire arising from both a shared and common humanity and from being people of faith spirituality and community. What the Interfaith Network is… • An opportunity for dialogue and understanding • A way of living with mutual respect and dignity • A positive recognition of different faiths and spiritual beliefs • A celebration of individuality and identity of each tradition • Held together by human values and goodwill • A partnership of many faith communities and the civic authority What the Interfaith Network is not … • An opportunity for conversion and proselytisation • A compromise of any individual faith tradition • The creation of any particular faith community • A forum for exclusive religious claims • An opportunity for religious argument