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On thursday the 9th of september the year 10 RE went on a churches excursions to all the temples to learn about other religions and their beliefs.I found the excursion exciting and interesting because i've never been to a temple before ,we were splited in to two classes for this excursion because of the space of the temples we attended the buddhist temple,sikhs temple muslim temple and hindu i found the sikhs temple the best because it was interesting to come to mass wearing a headscarf and seeing a man waving the wand around the guru which looks like a man lying down but it was only a gospel. in the hindu temple i saw lots of statues on the roof it looked crowded and artistic inside was very big i saw many people comming into the temple and praying in a very unique way. i leant that their are many gods in the hindu temple which you wish for differnt things in order to grant your wish people bellieve that bringing the gods food will grant them their wish. it was a long drive to get to some of the temples the weather wasn't as good on the day. After the sikhs mass we all got free pink lady apples which was juicy and nice. each religions we went to have diferent ways of praying and different ways of connecting to god. After we came back from the excursion all the year 10 went to the small hall to have a talk with the a lady from the interreligious faith she talked to us about her life and descrimination and also talking to us about the faith of the Israel she came from a muslim culture. I enjoyed the incursion it was interesting to learn about her faith.

i wasn't here when we had the intereligious dialogue i was sick

Jesus and Dialogue in the Gospel ( Matthew 15:21-28) The canaanite woman's faith

Jesus just left and went away to help the Israel who were in need but on his way he was disturbed by a canaanite woman who stop jesus and begged for his help, she said her daughter has been tormented by a demon jesus just ignored her, jesus's disciples also told jesus to send her away because she is embarrasing them. Then jesus replyed he only came to help the house of Israel. The woman then knelt down begging jesus to help her Jesus answered" it is not fair to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs". The woman answered " yes lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters table". Jesus then believed in her faith and helped the womans's daughter the daughter was healed. This is an example of jesus in a dialogue with another because it shows jesus trying to communicate with the woman and she communicating with him she is begging him to help her unfaithul daughter and jesus finallys agrees to help the daughter.

The story demonstate faith when the cannanite woman urgently needed help begging to jesus but he didn't reply to her because he wanted to test the lady's faith to see if she truly believes in her religion. it shows humanity when jesus isn't an cannanite person and she is confident to ask another person that is not her religion for help. Evaluation

I contributed and work with my group we share our questions and answers together when it comes to gather time in class we help each other on work that need to be done and when we have any questions we ask each other for help. i leaned alot of things during this experience and the interreligious excursion i learnt many cultures and their beliefs and different way of praying i leant different god each worship i found it most interesting when we went to the sikhs temple it was unusal and awesome getting to know the way they pray my understanding of faith has changed because i leant and been there to see others faith so i know that people outside shouldn't tease but respect each others culture expecially the muslims in the recent news there has been news of descrimination and muslim wearing veils around the streets and in courts also some places around the world even banned veils which is offensive to the muslims.

By Linh pham