Religious tolerance concert banned from Nelson cathedral

Tuesday, September 15th, 2015

A concert including the Islamic call to prayer has been turned away from Nelson’s cathedral after its dean said it “was not Christian”.

The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace is a contemporary anti-war composition, dedicated to victims of the Kosovo crisis and is based on the Catholic Mass, and includes texts from other religious and historical sources, including the call to prayer, the Bible and the ancient Sanskrit Mahabharata as well as secular writers including Rudyard Kipling.

Nelson Civic Choir president Wim Oosterhoff felt the Christ Church Cathedral dean’s decision to not host a performance of The Armed Man was “ironic”, and showed religious intolerance. Continue reading

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