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. ...
I'm deeply saddened today. I have heard far too much negative talk about my Muslim sisters and brothers. I can't simply sit and listen to it I must respond. Whether it is the controversy over the building of mosques, miss representations in the media of what Islam says, people drawing the Prophet, or the heinous act of a Pastor planning to burn Qurans on 9/11 it has somehow become seen by some to be socially acceptable to be disrespectful to Muslims. The simple fact is, however, that ...
The phenomena of people calling themselves “spiritual but not religious” is not new but it is a growing reality. It is tempting for those who consider religion important to dismiss people who use this descriptor for themselves as somehow being less committed or “wishy washy”. My experience is that this is simply not the case. Those who have taken on this descriptor have something important to teach us. Listening to those who call themselves “spiritual but not religious” what you often ...
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