2026 Interfaith Champion Award Winner
Dr Helene Ijaz Phd
Dr Helene Ijaz is a long time educator, mediator, author and consultant in cross-cultural, interracial,
and interfaith relations. A Roman Catholic Christian, she has been married to a Muslim for over fifty years.
After teaching internationally In her early years as a teacher, Dr Ijaz came to Canada where she earned
her M.A from York and Phd (1985) from the University of Toronto.
Since then she has built up a deep knowledge and experience in her years and profoundly enriched others
with it. She has made important contributions to multiculturalism and antiracism at the school board,
university and Ontario ministry levels and as an author of articles and books.
Toronto Awarded Bronze Medal
in 2015 for exemplary programming
In The Spirit Of An October 10 2010 United Nations Resolution sponsored by H.M. King Abdullah II of Jordan,
All people of good will, regardless of faith, are encouraged to come together and learn about each other
2025 Embracing Difference
2024 Strangers Becoming Friends
2023 Faith in Action
2022 Listen, Learn, Engage
2021 Extending Our Embrace
2020 Diversity in Harmony
2019 Inclusion in Action
2018 The Promise of Inclusion
2017 Reach Out
2016 Open Hearts, Open Minds
2015 Expressing Our Common Humanity
2014 Stories That Move Us
2013 Looking For Ways To Work Together
We were invited to present our organizational roadmap at the 2022 virtual Parliament of World Religions. We used that to make this video.
World Interfaith Harmony Week Showed This Video On Their Home Page During 2023 and 2024
For the 14th year in a row The City of Toronto
has(TBU) proclaimed February 1 - 7 as World Interfaith Harmony Week
Reach Out
2017
Music Video celebrating the theme that yearOriginal Song by No Fixed Address
The St Philips Lutheran Church House Band
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