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President's Advisory Committee on Building an Inclusive Community (PACBIC)

Interfaith Working Group

We invite collaboration among religious/spiritual identities, demonstrating their cultural significance and intersectional relationship. Such collaboration and consolidation not only reveals the eclectic nature of religious, secular and spiritual identities at McMaster University, but empowers the importance of equity among them, and their dignity within the wider mosaic of university/communal life.

 

 

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A pluralistic religious/cultural/spiritual group of education and advocacy.

The Interfaith Working Group (IFWG) identifies and recommends initiatives and actions related to emerging interfaith/spiritual/cultural issues on campus. It engages with campus partners to raise issues of mutual concern, demonstrate solidarity and identify ways to provide diverse food choices available at a reasonable cost to meet religious/spiritual and Indigenous dietary needs for McMaster staff, students and faculty members.

 

The IFWG enabled the creation of the Religious, Indigenous, Spiritual Observances (RISO) Accommodation policy when academic obligations conflict with RISO.

Accomodation for RISO form

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The formation and implementation of the new pluralistic Spiritual Care and Learning Centre (SCLC) for Religious, Secular and Spiritual Communities at McMaster, is the direct result of the efforts of the Interfaith Issues Working Group (IFWG) of PACBIC.