Intercultural Dialogue Student Association (IDSA) at SIUC has organized the 2009 Ramadan Fast-a-Thon. The Fast-a-Thon is an innovative program designed to raise money for the Good Samaritan Soup Kitchen,a local emergency food pantry and soup kitchen, while increasing awareness about the problem of hunger and homelessness in Carbondale.

Intercultural Dialogue Student Association (IDSA) at SIUC would like to invite you to participate in the 2009 Ramadan Fast-a-Thon.

The Fast-a-Thon is an innovative program designed to raise money for the Good Samaritan Soup Kitchen, a local emergency food pantry and soup kitchen, while increasing awareness about

First Presbyterian Church hosted IDSA’s Interfaith and Intercultural Ramadan Iftar Dinner ’09.  Guests included Pastor Janice C. West, members of the church and IDSA members. The Iftar dinner started with athan (call to prayer) inside the church. Then dinner is served for all participants. After the dinner, in her thanks speech, Pastor Janice C. West talked about her experiences from Turkey trip ’08 organized by IDSA. 

IDSA co-organized a trip to Turkey with Niagara Foundation in Chicago, IL by the sponsorship of BAKIAD in Istanbul, Turkey. 11 participants including pastor, professors and their spouses attended this wonderful trip which included a biblical tour of five cities (Istanbul, Izmir, Antalya, Konya and Capadocia) in ten days in May 2009. The guests were also hosted by the sponsor families in their homes for dinners.

The Spirit of Diversity Award honors the registered student organization that best exemplifies a commitment to and support for diversity in its programming and activities over the past year. The organization's accomplishment in achieving

Religions unite to discuss prophet Abraham

Members from Islam, Christianity and Judaism gathered Wednesday not to discuss their differences, but instead their similarities - particularly their shared belief in the prophet Abraham.

IDSA co-organized a trip to Turkey with Niagara Foundation in Chicago, IL by the sponsorship of BAKIAD in Istanbul, Turkey. Three professors one with his spouse attended this wonderful trip which included a biblical tour of five cities (Istanbul, Izmir, Antalya, Konya and Capadocia) in ten days. The guests were also hosted by the sponsor families in their homes for dinners.

IDSA organized an Abrahamic dinner as part of the Inter-faith week in Carbondale and invited people from Jews, Christians and Muslims in order to discuss Prophet Abraham in different perspectives. The goal of the dinner is to bring together people from three major world religions and emphasize on commonalities rather than differences in order to establish a stronger community whose members

Group tries to embrace diversity of race, religion

A new group of SIUC students is fighting to promote diversity beyond what is seen on the surface. The Intercultural Dialogue Student Association is based on the principle of equal representation for students of

IDSA offered free Asure at Interfaith Center on Thursday, Jan 31st. Each asure is accommodated with a flier which explains the story and custom behind this event. We thank people who came to join us on that day and share the message of Asure which is unity & friendship.