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Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php --------------------------------------------------------------------------- As part of the Deepen Your Faith Programme, there will be a public lecture of “Symbols in Religion and in the Bible” by Prof. Dr. Fr. Francis X. D'Sa SJ at the Chapel of Loyola High School, Margao on Sunday, October 23 from 5 to 7 pm. Fr. Francis will speak about the particular nature of religious language, and how symbols are used in religion and in the Bible. The lecture is aimed at the ordinary lay person and is open to all. Fr. Francis D'Sa SJ, Professor Emeritus at Jnana-Deepa Vidyapeeth Pontifical School, Pune, is a leading scholar in inter-religious dialogue and is the Director of the Institute for the Study of Religion in Pune. In 2007, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Frankfurt work in intercultural and inter-religious dialogue. From 2003 to 2008, he was Professor of Missiology and Dialogue of Religions at the University of Würzburg in Germany, and has lectured at a number of universities in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Portugal.