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TORONTO, CANADA, March 28, 2004: The College of Pastoral Supervision and Psychotherapy (CPSP) at its Fourteenth Plenary Meeting on March 18-20, 2004 held at Virginia Beach, Virginia, conferred the Certificate of Clinical Chaplain and Pastoral Counselor to Pandit Suraj Persad. He is the first Hindu person to receive certification from CPSP since its inception in 1990. Pandit Suraj Persad is a Hindu Minister and the President of Hindu Dharma Mission (Canada). He has been a Hindu Chaplain (Spiritual and Religious Caregiver) since 1992 and is currently the Hindu Chaplain at the University of Toronto, the Hospital for Sick Children as well as other institutions housing Hindu Patients, Residents and Inmates. Presently, he is training four Hindu Chaplaincy Students and Volunteers at the Hospital for Sick Children (click here for his website).



CPSP is comprised of thirty-eight Chapters across the United States of America and Canada (website: here. Pandit Suraj Persad is a member of the Port Credit Chapter. The founders of CPSP believes that “the disciplined healing and therapeutic task of religious communities require a certain audacity and heedlessness to common trends and typically accepted formulas.” The Covenant of CPSP states “members see themselves as spiritual pilgrims seeking a collegial professional community. Their calling and commitments are therefore, first and last theological. Members covenant to address one another in a profound theological sense. They commit to being mutually responsible to one another for their professional work and direction.”



Theological training in Pastoral Counseling is offered through Hindu Dharma Mission (Canada). There is an urgent need that is theologically sanctioned for qualified Hindu Religious Leaders to provide Spiritual and Religious Care for Hindus in India as well as across the Hindu Diaspora. CPSP is the organization which has taken the bold step to train Pastoral Counselors and Clinical Chaplains, regardless of their Religious or Faith Tradition. CPSP is neither an exclusive Christian nor a proselytizing organization.

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