AFN members attended a conference on religious freedom relating to a small minority new religion in the UK. AFN’s Director had done a study of discrimination against the group in Sweden. The movement’s account of the conference is detailed here:
Warsaw: AFN attended the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting covering sessions on Freedom of Religion, Belief and Conscience as well as Tolerance and Non-Discrimination. The OSCE is an intergovernmental body comprising 57 countries and provides a forum for governments and civil society to meet together. AFN’s Director gave a presentation to the meeting on the…
In yet another indication where French judiciary appear to be pushing further into, and limiting, the religious ‘space’ in the country a civil court, the Tribunal of Lorient, judged against the Dominican Sisters of the Holy Spirit, a Catholic Institution, was determined to have wrongfully dismissed a Sister of that Order. After internal apostolic investigation…
The International Institute of Religious Freedom published all the 12 official reports to the UN Human Rights Council of the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religions and Belief, presented by the present United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Heiner Bielefeldt. Each report has its own specific topic like religious minorities,…
All Faiths Network members attended the annual Pan-African Peace Symposium 2018 and AFN Director Martin Weightman was honoured to be sitting on the presiding table. Top speakers included Lord Tariq Ahmad, UK Government Minister and Karim A.A. Khan QC, Special Adviser and Head of the Investigative Unit into ISIL for the United Nations. Mr. Khan…
The All Faiths Network participated in UK’s Interfaith Week with an event featuring a broad range of different artistic religious performances intermixed with short talks from an equally wide range of speakers. The purpose of our event was to show that whilst religions may be widely different in expression and approach, there is also…
The value of faith groups to society is almost impossible to measure but is immensely important. This was broadly demonstrated over the last few years during lockdowns where faith groups were at the forefront of helping to resolve many social problems, almost entirely on a voluntary basis. It is a social resource that should be…
