The All Faiths Network is pleased to announce our new membership of the UK Inter Faith Network. The Inter Faith Network for the UK works to promote understanding, cooperation and good relations between organisations and persons of different faiths in the UK. We hope that our common purpose will lead to much future cooperation and success….
Human rights new service Forum 18 reports a Wave of prosecutions against “extremist” Muslims in Kazakhstan. The site reports that in September alone in three different cities of Kazakhstan, at least four alleged members of the Tabligh Jamaat Muslim missionary movement were convicted and five more imprisoned in pre-trial detention for two months. In Temirtau, Orazbek Apakashev received…
British Imams and Muslim community leaders have launched Haqiqah, an online magazine designed to counter Islamic State propaganda. Haqiqah (Reality) is produced by ImamsOnline.com, a network of British religious leaders. The magazine highlights the lack of theological basis for messages of hatred from Isis. Site editor Shaukat Warraich said: “The frontline for Imams in the 21st century is not…
Russian customs officials have unlawfully seized a total of 10.5 million books and brochures intended for Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia since March. The Administrative Center of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia say the texts, including Bibles, share a message of comfort and hope but have been classified as “extremist.” Among the seized books are nearly 4,000 copies of the…
In June, a suicide bomber killed 27 people when he blew himself up inside a packed Shi’ite Muslim mosque in Kuwait city during Friday prayers. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack, which took place in the district of Sawaber in the eastern part of the Kuwaiti capital and also wounded 227 people. Kuwaiti member of parliament,…
Fifty years ago it was predicted that religion was on its way out, that with increasing literacy and a growing educated middle class in the third world, belief would no longer be necessary. Statistics from 2014 have proven this prediction wrong and if the research recently completed by the Pew Research Center is correct, the…
A United Nations Rapporteur has once again demanded that Myanmar authorities address the human rights situation in their country. Last Wednesday, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, called on state authorities to resolve challenges to the recently implemented democratic process. Lee stated “journalists are still being interrogated and…
The interfaith movement in the UK faces many challenges. Some of its representative bodies face allegations of collusion with unrepresentative, right wing, extremist groups; some are the subject of allegations from dissenting and minority faith traditions who feel excluded them from the table of dialogue; all have to cope with the seductions of state and…
Council of Europe building in Strasbourg The European Interreligious Forum for Religious Freedom and the All Faiths Network coordinated extensively together, working with many other concerned groups and Parliamentarians to assist in dealing with this issue. We joined together in this newsletter to provide a detailed account and explanation of what occurred. Newsletter PACE victory
