Jon Dal Din, Director of Westminster Interfaith, organised the 24th Annual Walk, on 8 June 1019, between different places of worship. All Faiths Network members were amongst approximately 50 people from a wide range of different faiths who went on the walk. At each place we were given a short explanation abut the place of…
AFN attended two different Iftah events in May. Iftah notes the breaking of the fast in the evening during Ramadan. The first of these events was in the Noor Mosque with police, councillors, the May and members of different faiths. The other was a special event in the Dougherty Street Chambers which has a strong…
Exploring Belief, the second Religion Media Festival, featured a stellar line-up of speakers and included panel discussions on some of the most important issues facing religion and media today: The need to understand religion’s role in events and the need for the media to explain it. The need for religious literacy, and for expertise among…
AFN members attended an evening to celebrate International Dance Day where, for the first time in the UK, these traditional dances that are an expression of the cultural and religious heritage of different parts of India. Tribal dances Garo of Meghalaya, Cheraw of Mizoram and Siddi of Karnataka, Pavara dance of Maharashtra as well as…
On the occasion of the Bishop of Chichester, the Right Reverend Dr. Martin Warner, visiting the Crawley area, an interfaith meeting was organised by and held at the Ahmadiyya Noor mosque in Crawley.[ezcol_1half] [/ezcol_1half][ezcol_1half_end] [/ezcol_1half_end] A minute’s silence was held in memory of the New Zealand atrocity. The Bishop, along with a number of other…
The Word of Life Ministries International held its annual awards ceremony on 7th December awarding Ambassadorships to 6 people who have carried out good works in around the world. H.E The Right Reverend Dr. Michael Steele, CDKA, was Master of Ceremonies and H. E. The Rt. Honorable Dr. Phillip Phinn, DEA, D.C.P.C., Ph.D., keynote speaker,…
The Khalsa Jatha Gurdwara in Holland Park is the oldest Gurdwara in the UK, and possibly Europe, founded in 1908. AFN joined the Lokahi Foundation to attend a religious service in the temple, learn more about the good works carried out by Sikhs in the UK – whilst we were there a youth group were…
AFN members attended a conference at the United Nations in Geneva to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights. AFN Director, Martin Weightman, moderated a panel on Faith-Based Organisations Committing to the UDHR. He opened with an introduction saying that religions can be used and abused but at the core of…
After attending a number of interfaith events during the week the All Faiths Network launched its own event on the evening of Friday 16th November creating a truly inter-religious and inter-cultural event of music, dance and food brought by different participants. The talented performers were Sufi singers, a Hindu dancer, a Christian Psalmist, a Muslim…
At the start of Interfaith week 3 members of All Faiths Network attended Bandhi Chhor at the Guru Maneyo Granth Gurdwara in Slough, the largest Gurdwara in Europe and the USA (we understood). “Bandi” means “imprisoned”, “Chhor” means “release” or “Day of Liberation” celebrating when “right” prevailed over “wrong”. See http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Bandi_Chhorh_Divas for more details. It…
