The Europe and Middle East region of the IARF, IARF EME, will hold an online conference on Saturday 8 May – Tuesday 11 May 2021. It is scheduled as follows:Saturday: from 6:30pm to 10pm CESTSunday: from 10am to 6pm CESTMonday: from 4:30pm to 9:30pm CESTTuesday: from 4:30pm to 9pm CESTThe complete programme and registration details […]

The next meeting in the second series of our Motivational Dialogues will be held on Sunday the 24th of January at 5pm CET on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86951947910 (see below for different timezones). You can watch recordings of previous meetings on our Youtube Channel. The formt is simple – a speaker talks for 10 to 20 minutes, and a […]

At a time when much of the world is in the darkness of Covid-19, its peoples call out for the faith and hope that religions can offer.  It is easy to be disheartened by what we see before us and yet, with many celebrating the light feasts of their tradition in this period of the year, those who […]

https://youtu.be/X4QzidnDgNsAt our next meeting this Sunday, 31 May at 1pm UTC (you can check how this translated to your timezone here), the speaker will be Wendy Goldberg, Executive Director of the Tri-Faith Initiative. Tri-Faith Initiative is a unique and ambitious project in the field of interfaith relations in design, scale, and scope. It brings together into […]

Facing the isolation we imposed on ourselves to try and contain the pandemic, protecting the most vulnerable among us, many are looking for ways to experience a sense of community, for an opportunity to have a meaningful conversation. We would like to make our modest contribution, and we will be organizing online meetings we call […]

In the coming year we will be publishing reflections around the time of big festivals of the many religions represented in IARF. We begin with Chanukah, the Jewish festival of light. The author of this piece is Rabbi Robert Carroll, member of the International Council, our governing body, and the Interfaith Encounter Association, one of […]

Our 35th Congress, held on 29 July – 1 August at George Washington University in Washington DC (USA), was something we hadn’t tried before. Namely, we chose the format of a collaboration project and were able to gather many wonderful, diverse partners with the support of the host, our member group, the Unitarian Universalist Association. […]

After carefully considering the 12 applications we received this year, each well-prepared and outlining a valuable project we would love to support, the Greeley Award Committee, tasked with this difficult duty, decided to award the project submitted by The Sanctuaries: Interfaith Arts Education. This is how The Sanctuaries elaborate on their mission to ignite the […]

Registration is now open for the Conference “Reimagining Interfaith Cooperation”, which will be held on 29 July – 1 August 2018 in Washington DC and incorporate the 35th World Congress of the IARF. Please fill in this form to register. You will benefit from early registration: there is a significant discount for those who register […]