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Christians and Muslims greet each other for Ramadan and the summer break. The first ever gathering at Lambeth Palace of Christian and Muslim leaders from around the country took place in July. This ground-breaking meeting was the culmination of the Christian Muslim Forum’s work over the last four years building bridges and sharing friendships between Christian and Muslim leaders. The group of around 50 women and men agreed to send this letter to mosques, churches and ...
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, hosted an event at Lambeth Palace which brought together 50 imams and clergy from 25 local areas to encourage and strengthen local inter faith relationships. The Revd Mark Fisher, Andrew Stunell MP, Bishop Richard Cheetham, The Archbishop of Canterbury and Maulana Shahid Raza The event was supported by Mr Andrew Stunell, Parliamentary ...
Entire villages have been washed away by walls of flood water. Rescuers are striving to reach 27,000 people still cut off by the floods, which are the worst in 80 years. An estimated 1,100 people have died and thousands have lost everything. A spokesman for the UK-based charity Save the Children informed the BBC that the infrastructure devastation in Swat may be worse than in the earthquake which caused havocked the region in 2005. ...