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 a lesser seen adivasi dance, alongside Thiruvathirakali dance of Kerala in the folk genre. The event, titled “Dance and Development” marked International Dance Day in London was organised by Sanskruti Centre for Cultural Excellence. The programme thematically highlighted art, culture and empowerment of tribal communities of India.
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 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…
The UK Interfaith Network (IFN), of which AFN is a national member body, held its annual general meeting in Derby on the 4th July. The event launched the IFN’s “Connect – a youth interfaith action guide” booklet and ongoing campaign to engage younger people in interfaith work. The days events covered actions being done and…
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…
AFN recently contributed to two different events. Religion – a Source of Peace and Harmony in SocietyOne was organised by the Ahmidiyya Muslims where 6 different speakers gave their input on how different religions approach peace. At the event were speakers from the Sikh, Quaker, Christian, Muslim, Hindu religions and AFN Director Martin Weightman gave…
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…
