The Manchester attack is a most horrible and insane incursion into our society and highlights that there are a small number of people in this world whose lives are dominated by destructive intentions which they justify by some twisted purpose and inner turmoil. That such individuals can harbour such a world view is an aberration…
The Parlementary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Rapporteur Valeriu Ghiletchi recently proposed a resolution and a recommendation for “The Protection of the rights of parents and children belonging to religious minorities” to the members of the Assembly coming from 47 countries. After intense debates, both the resolution and the recommandation have been approved…
Dear Friend It is our pleasure to write in relation to a fun interfaith Star Wars video to mark the 40th anniversary of the first Star Wars film. This has just gone online with the petition to recognise the role Star Wars has had on bringing together diverse families and communities. Please check out our…
The All Faiths Network finds the recent European Court of Justice decision allowing companies to prohibit workers from the “visible wearing of any political, philosophical or religious signs” as potentially providing an excuse for employers to discriminate, ironically, under the pretence of non-discrimination. It simply does not give enough importance to the right to manifest…
The Director of the All Faiths Network attended an interfaith peace event held by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Elder Association UK in Crawley recently. The event was titled World Crisis and Pathway to Peace. Four different faiths spoke and about from their own scriptures and religious activities on how their religion contributed to peace in the…
Interfax, the Russian News agency, reports that Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev guarantees freedom of religion, but says ‘religious extremism should be sorted out’. Speaking in Astana at a meeting with Minister for Religious Affairs and Civil Society Nurlan Yermekbayev, Nazarbayev drew attention to the state policy regarding religion and religious organizations and to measures to…
Writing in the Guardian last month, Miqdaad Versi highlighted both the dangerous linking of terrorism with relgion, chiefly Islam, in the press, and the frightening way in which such false claims are then propagated through social media. The most recent example was the Daily Express headline ‘Terror in Spain: Gunman screaming ‘Allahu Akbar’ opens fire in…
It is often noted that, different though religions are in the specifics of faith and practice, there are more shared principles than differences. An article in World Religion News compares quotes from core teachings of different religions on the subject of religious freedom. What may be surprising is just how similar these teachings are, from Catholicism to…
A YouGov poll on attitudes to the causes of Islamic and Christian terrorism shows a significant differences of views between younger and older respondents. While “religious views” is thought to be the main cause of terrorist acts, in neither Christian or Islamic cases is terrorism thought to reveal anything about the faith. Asked “Generally speaking,…
On 5th December 2016, 16 fully armed policemen and 12 plain clothed officers in three police vehicles forcefully entered the Tahrik Jadid (an administrative body of the Ahmadiyya community overseeing overseas missions, building mosques, and publishing literature and the Holy Quran in various languages) compound in Rabwah, Pakistan. Cases have been filed against the 4…
