{"id":1847,"date":"2025-07-14T12:59:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T20:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/?p=1847"},"modified":"2025-07-14T12:59:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T20:59:12","slug":"listening-circles-2025-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/?p=1847","title":{"rendered":"Listening Circles 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Resize-photo-CCC.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Resize-photo-CCC.jpg\" alt=\"Christ Church Cathedral\" class=\"wp-image-1848\" width=\"-48\" height=\"-34\" srcset=\"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Resize-photo-CCC.jpg 350w, https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Resize-photo-CCC-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>On four Tuesday evenings of May and June of this year, around 30 people\u00a0gathered at Christ Church Cathedral for a series of bi-weekly\u00a0Listening Circles that brought together people from the Abrahamic faiths (Jewish, Muslim, Christian and Baha&#8217;i)\u00a0to learn, listen and share about the heartrending conflict in Israel\/Gaza. Presenters from the Jewish and Muslim communities presented their perspectives, followed by Q&amp;A and mixed\u00a0discussion groups of 6 to 8. Although questions and conversations were sometimes difficult, participants often expressed gratitude for the opportunity to contribute to the dialogue and to form personal bonds with one another.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Yasser-and-Grace-resize-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Yasser-and-Grace-resize-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1850\" width=\"-61\" height=\"-73\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;d like to warmly thank Christ Church Cathedral for providing an incredible venue to bring our communities together;\u00a0Yasser Yousef of Fig Deli (pictured here with Grace Khalifa) for\u00a0his support by more than once catering dinners for the entire group;\u00a0Jennie Keeran of the Christian community for providing refreshments for each of the sessions;\u00a0and to Hanan Abousaleh, Dahlia Beck,\u00a0Rabbi Harry Brechner, and Mustafa Abousaleh for their informative and insightful presentations.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On four Tuesday evenings of May and June of this year, around 30 people\u00a0gathered at Christ Church Cathedral for a series of bi-weekly\u00a0Listening Circles that brought together people from the Abrahamic faiths (Jewish, Muslim, Christian and Baha&#8217;i)\u00a0to learn, listen and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/?p=1847\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1847"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1854,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions\/1854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}