Islam: A Story of Sanctuary
YO30. 18.00 – 20.00
Islam: A Story of Sanctuary, to be held on Zoom. …
Activities calendar (Online activities)
The calendar below shows activity information linked to Inter Faith Week 2022. Some activities this year will take place virtually, and an icon identifies these on the list below. You can also filter online/ socially distanced in-person activities using the controls above.
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Saturday 12 November
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Sunday 13 November
Inter Faith Week Buddy - Humanist / Muslim
For Inter Faith Week Humanists UK took part in the Inter Faith Week Buddies Scheme. The scheme involves two people of different faiths or of a particular faith and of a non-religious belief and they keep in touch on a weekly basis either in person or online. One of the pairings was between a Humanists and a Muslim.…Inter Faith Week Buddy - Humanist / Baha’i
For Inter Faith Week Humanists UK took part in the Inter Faith Week Buddies Scheme. The scheme involves two people of different faiths or of a particular faith and of a non-religious belief and they keep in touch on a weekly basis either in person or online. One of the pairings was between a Humanists and a Baha'i.…Inter Faith Week Buddy - Humanist / Christian (Roman Catholic)
For Inter Faith Week Humanists UK took part in the Inter Faith Week Buddies Scheme. The scheme involves two people of different faiths or of a particular faith and of a non-religious belief and they keep in touch on a weekly basis either in person or online. One of the pairings was between a Humanists and a Christian (Roman Catholic).…“Youth Leadership through Service” video series
UKIYN is showcasing youth volunteers across faith communities who give their time, talent and treasure to worthy causes and to peace in a video series named "Youth Leadership through Service". You can view the videos at https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW0Va1SO6s0RA-YiIlYhpF-2R6SfQ6daX. Through serving their communities and working alongside people of other faiths, young peacemakers are finding meaning, cohesion and a footing for leadership in a society that needs reconciliation and goodwill. We will be visiting our network organisations and featuring the motivation, faith and fellowship of the young members coming from different faith and belief backgrounds. Religions for Peace UK Interfaith Youth Network invites you to make good use of your free time, choose a worthy cause and make the world a better place by giving yourself.…Inter Faith Week
St Thomas' Hospital, Guy's Hospital- London SE1 7EH. 12.00 – Sunday 20 November 16.00
St Thomas' Hospital aim to run internal inter faith week events across the 4 acute hospitals & 20 community sites. …An Introduction to Hinduism
ME7 . 18.00 – 19.30
Medway Hindu Mandir are hosting a virtual 'Introduction to Hinduism' talk presented by Ajay Attra. This will be followed by a Q&A. … -
Monday 14 November
Inter Faith Week: Exhibition and Panel
Endeavour House, IP1 2BX . 9.00 – Friday 18 November 17.00
Suffolk County Council are taking part in Interfaith Week. We have been working in co-production with the local Multi-Faith Agency to create an exhibition display. This will include posters, artifacts, books and the board game 'Diversity'.
We are also creating videos where people will talk a bit about their faith and this will be shared throughout the council.
There will also be a panel talk where we will invite staff over lunchtime on 16th Nov to come to talk to people of different faiths about their religion/belief.
We will be providing quizzes as a way of interacting with staff. …Inter Faith event - at the Financial Ombudsman Service
E14 9SR. 13.00 – 14.00
To celebrate this important week, we’re holding our own Inter Faith event, hosted by our Muslim Network, as part of our commitment to our diversity and inclusion objectives. We’ve invited all the faith networks at the organisation (including the Christian Network, the Sikh Network, the Jewish Network and the Hindu Network, and members of our Muslim Network will be hosting the event) to take part in a discussion about religion and what it means to us. Our aim is to bring together people of all faiths and beliefs and to celebrate our similarities but also to value and appreciate what makes us all different and unique.…The Importance and Impact of Interfaith Week
Unity FM 93.5 - Connecting Communities programme, B1 . 16.00 – 17.00
A radio show disussing the importance and impact of Interfaith Week with Connecting Communities with 3 guests, co-hosts, Mahmooda Qureshi and Dr Peter Rookes. Listen to show live on 93.5 FM or through the Unity FM website. …Holocaust Memorial Day - Stories of Faith: Victims, Survivors and Rescuers
Zoom Meeting . 17.00 – 18.00
This event explores the stories and experiences of different faith groups and individuals of faith during the Holocaust, Nazi persecutions and genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur. While highlighting the many different individual and collective experiences of people of faith it we will also discuss why Holocaust Memorial Day is a time when all faiths come together to remember those that suffered and to think about how we can stand together against identity-based bigotry, hatred and persecution today. …Mindfulness and Eternity
ME7 . 19.00 – 21.00
An online talk on 'Mindfulness and Eternity" presented by Faran Forghani. A Q&A will follow. … -
Tuesday 15 November
Cumbria Virtual Voices in Religious Education (VVRE) Project
Cumbria Development Education Centre, University of Cumbria, Rydal Road, Ambleside, Cumbria LA22 9BB
Sixth formers from a cluster of schools across Cumbria will virtually meet 'voices' from the Virtual Voices in Religious Education (VVRE) Project. They will be given the opportunity to watch 'personal worldview' digital film clips, ask questions live and dialogue with each other. …Inter-Faith ‘Coffee Morning’ via Zoom
CB10. 11.30 – 13.30
We have been meeting online every Tuesday morning, since January'21, due to covid lockdown. Previously, we had monthly 1st Tuesday evening meetings, in person.
This is an opportunity to discuss the week's festivals, as according to https://www.interfaith.org.uk/resources/religious-festivals and other sources. So, this week we'll discuss Remembrance, Inter Faith Week, Martin's/Philip's Advent, etc.…Our relationship with the environment
SW18. 12.30 – 13.30
An online lunch and learn session to discuss how we can work together and support faith communities climate action.…Virtual Bring & Share Lunchtime meeting
Wolverhampton, DY3 . 13.00 – 14.00
You are invited to join us at our virtual Bring and Share Lunchtime meeting on Tuesday 15 November 2022 at 1.00m-2.00pm.
Our Guest speaker will be Moya Lloyd, freelance creative producer and have been developing arts and heritage projects in the community and will talk about my work at Boundary Way Project.
…Christian-Muslim Relations: Remembering Kenneth Cragg
Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies, The Song School, 109A Iffley Road, Oxford, OX4 1EH. 14.30 – 16.00
On the 10th anniversary of the death of Bishop Kenneth Cragg, we are hosting a panel discussion with Q&A. Cragg was an eminent scholar of Christian-Muslim relations and an original Christian thinker who read the Qur'an and Bible comparatively. He devoted his life to the interaction between Muslims and Christians as an active churchman and pastor who spent time in the Middle East. He was a prolific writer over a wide variety of genres, from academic papers to translations of Arabic texts, to poems and prayers for interfaith occasions. Cragg was also influential in bringing Islam to the general readership of the Anglican Church from the mid-twentieth century onwards.…Talk - After Belsen: Christian Encounters with Jews in the Aftermath of the Holocaust
Avenue Campus, Highfield Rd, Southampton SO17 1BF. 18.00 – 19.30
In post-war occupied Germany British and American Christians encountered Jews who had survived the years of Nazi persecution. In liberated concentration camps and Displaced Person centres, through interfaith campaigns and the immigration movement to Mandate Palestine, army chaplains, relief workers, and interfaith activists listened to survivor testimony. They witnessed the rebuilding of Jewish community life, debated their understanding of antisemitism, and advocated causes which could shape the future of Jews in Europe and elsewhere. This lecture will explore some of these unique stories of Christian-Jewish encounters in the wake of the Holocaust.…Norwich Inter Faith Link Zoom Meeting
NR1. 19.00 – 21.00
NIFL Zoom Meeting at 7pm with Harfiyah Haleem, a Trustee from the Islamic Foundation for Ecology and Environmental Sciences - the organisation which invited the Bishop of Norwich to set up the Coalition of Faiths on Climate Change which has its first meeting on the morning of that day. …The Lampedusa Cross
ME1. 19.00 – 20.30
An online talk on "The Lampedusa Cross" presented by Rev'd Canon Dr Gordon Giles. A Q&A will follow. …Inter Faith Discussion
University of Bath Chaplaincy, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7JP
Watch staff and students from the Brew@2 group share the food that reminds them of their favourite faith celebrations on instagram @uniofbathchaplaincy.
…Zoom Forum: ‘Peace is not a gift from God to man, but a gift from man to himself’ (Eli Wiesel)
Online event. 19.30 – 21.00
A zoom online event with speakers from a range of religion and belief traditions, followed by discussion on the theme of 'What can religious and belief traditions contribute to the search for peace within our local and global communities?'… -
Wednesday 16 November
Coffee Drop In
Cancer Research UK, 2 Redman Place, London E20 1JQ
Inter Faith coffee drop in on teams. An informal setting to share personal perspectives, to hear from other people at CRUK and learn something about other faiths.…Language learning in/as religious education
Cambridge and London, CB1. 12.30 – 13.45
Drawing on research from Luxembourg (Dr Anastasia Badder, University of Cambridge) and the UK (Dr Jo-Ann Myers, Leo Baeck College), this conversational seminar considers the significance of Hebrew learning in Jewish school settings.
Dr Badder's case study focuses on a complementary Sunday school, while Dr Myers' began with a pluralist Jewish primary school in outer London. Exchanging their learning, this event will open up questions about the nature of progress in Progressive contexts, and the significance of language literacy as a component of community identity.
Coordinated by the Cambridge Interfaith Programme, the event will include discussants from other traditions.…Equity and Equality in Islam
ME1. 18.00 – 19.30
An online talk on "Equity and Equality in Islam" presented by Maulana Irfan Patel and Sheikh Adber Rahman. A Q&A will follow. …Unite!
Zoom, LE1. 19.30 – 20.30
An online presentation showcasing the Bahá'í perspective on the purpose of religion - including readers from a variety of faith backgrounds. "Religion should unite all hearts and cause wars and disputes to vanish from the face of the earth; it should give birth to spirituality, and bring light and life to every soul. If religion becomes a cause of dislike, hatred and division, it would be better to be without it... Any religion which is not a cause of love and unity is no religion." ('Abdu'l-Bahá)… -
Thursday 17 November
Interfaith Community: Faith Writings and Loneliness
University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY
Listen as Orthodox Nun and Visiting Local Faith Leader Mother Sarah is joined by students from the Christian Union and the Islamic Society to discuss how faith writings can help with feelings of loneliness and isolation. The panel share Christian, Islamic and Buddhist writings that have proved helpful to them. Interfaith Community: Faith Writings and Loneline: https://soundcloud.com/uniofbath/interfaith-community-faith-writings-loneliness.…Panel: What does Religious Inclusivity in the workplace really look like?
Cancer Research UK 2 Redman Place, London E20 1JQ
This Panel event, hosted by Simon Ledsham, will see us asking our panellists from other companies and organisations about what religious inclusivity looks like in their workplace. We will be asking why it’s important to raise awareness of faith in the workplace alongside sharing some initiatives and ideas. We are fortunate enough to have representatives from Salesforce, Fujitsu UK and Diversity Diagnostics joining us and this will be a great chance for you to listen, learn and ask questions. This is open to all staff – whether you follow a religion or not and should help us all to become better Managers, colleagues & allies.…Inter Faith Week Webinar and Networking Event
Arcadis, 103 Colmore Row, Birmingham B3 3AG
Arcadis Faith Strand hosted an Inter Faith Week Webinar and Networking event which brough together speakers from different faith groups, sharing their personal journeys and insights. …Online diversity conference for KS1/2 on the theme of ‘Home’
Kirklees, HD1. 9.00 – 17.00
An online inter faith event for primary schools. Two sessions will enable younger and older primary-aged pupils to meet local faith representatives and find out how they practice faith in their daily lives.…Psalms in Interfaith Contexts
Online, OX1. 18.00 – 19.00
Spurring Colonialism and Slavery: Protestants and Catholics United in their Use of Psalm 132
When we think about Catholic and Protestant interpretation of Scripture during the contentious period of the 16th-17thcenturies, we have come to expect difference and conflict. Yet the reception of Psalm 132 manifests a unified interpretive stance that promotes a unified aim: colonialism and enslavement. This presentation explores the ways in which European religious and political rivals took Psalm 132 as a goad and guide to conquer new lands and peoples.…Scriptural Reasoning and the Refugee Crisis
Grays Court 3 Nursery Road Edgbaston Birmingham B15 3JX. 19.00 – 20.00
Join us during Inter Faith Week for an introduction to Scriptural Reasoning! Scriptural Reasoning is a tool for inter faith dialogue, where people of different faiths gather and reflect on short passages from their scriptures together. With a faith representative from Judaism, Christianity, and Islam we'll go over the basics of Scriptural Reasoning then put what we've learned into action looking at the topic of the refugee crisis. Our hope is that you'll leave confident in how to engage in Scriptural Reasoning and inspired to use this tool for interfaith dialogue in your own group settings.…North Wales Interfaith Forum
Zoom, LL11. 19.00 – 21.00
All faith/belief representatives in North Wales and anyone interested in connecting with people of different faiths/beliefs are welcome to join Glyndwr Chaplaincy for the third annual North Wales Interfaith Forum. … -
Friday 18 November
The RE Podcast
Online
As this week is Interfaith week, I have a chat with Dr David Lundie about what interfaith RE looks like. We discuss the concept of God, religion and Jesus from different points of view, the contrasts and connections between religions depending on where you are standing. a few anecdotes for your classroom and the important of teaching interfaith RE for our students and wider society.…The concept of God in my Holy Scripture
Hounslow TW3 3RG. 18.00 – 19.00
Ahmadiyya Muslim Women's Association, Hounslow North Branch, is hosting an online interfaith event to learn about the key concept of religion - God - from Hindu, Christian and Muslim perspective. The aim of this event is to provide the opportunity to learn and have better understanding with references from the Holy scriptures of the three major religions. Women and children are welcome from all faiths or no faith. … -
Saturday 19 November
Justice and Threat of World War 3
ME1. 19.00 – 20.30
An online talk on 'Justice and Threat of World War 3' presented by Zafeer Zartash, Imam of the Ahmadiyya Mosque. … -
Sunday 20 November
International Interfaith Meeting
Birmingham, B1. 17.30 – 18.30
This is a monthly meeting of people interested in Interfaith dialogue with young people and young adults. It usually has participants from the UK, USA and Egypt and often other countries as well. This month we will be hearing from a young Sikh leader about their favourite Scripture and what it means to them.…Inter Faith Week Celebration
ME1. 18.00 – 20.00
A medley of presentations to celebrate Inter Faith Week. … -
Monday 21 November
Reorienting Christian Understandings of Judaism: Insights from Biblical Scholarship
Online, Oxford Interfaith Forum, OX1. 18.00 – 19.00
Biblical scholarship involves seeking understanding of venerable documents by exploring their literary, socio-cultural and historical contexts in order to understand their meanings in the past and for the present. This presentation explores what it might mean for Christians to draw upon the resources of recent biblical scholarship as a catalyst for reorienting their understanding of Jewish life, past and present, in relation to their own faith. It will unfold in four sections:
* Key developments in biblical scholarship: an argument for recalibrating how Christians
have understood Judaism
* Recent scholarly perspectives on the Pharisees: a case in point
* Peering behind and beyond the scholars’ methods: new perspectives on “old” texts
* Church life and biblical scholarship: becoming “religious-critical” interpreters of Scripture… -
Wednesday 23 November
FaithAction Coffee House: Looking Back at Inter Faith Week 2022
Online, Dagenham, RM8 . 11.00 – 12.00
Join us at our next Coffee House session to reflect on this year’s Inter Faith Week.…
