Japan 2011 disaster response
Relief donations to Japan 2011 superquake & tsunami victims
The devastation of North-Eastern Japan’s provinces by the unprecedented earthquake and tsunami occurred shortly before our 2011 Council meeting.
IARF members in several countries spontaneously raised donations of £4,574, which was added to considerable donations made by IARF members in Japan, and given to relief work in Sendai.
Report of IARF Donation to Japan earthquake victims (PDF illustrated, 3 pages)
“Dialogue between religions: Future or past?”
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Amsterdam
(video, Dutch language)
A seminar about the how & why of a dialogue between the religions
(Does this dialogue have a future? How to do the dialogue of the future? )
Speakers included Manuela Kalsky & Bart Brandsma.
The seminar was organized by
- the International Association for Religious Freedom (IARF) Netherlands
- Core Rural Female Trialogue (KLVT)
- Inter Religious Reflection – Dutch Centre forInter-religious and philosophical dialogue (IB NSID)
- United Religions Initiative (URI) Netherlands
- World Conference on Religion & Peace (WCRP) Netherlands
…with the support of Church & World.
2011 Annual General Meeting of India Chapter
@ Adichunchanagiri Mahasamsthama Matt, Mysore Branch
9th October 2011
Please visit the photo set on Flickr.
Ethics, Ecology & the Interdependent Web
19 February 2011 – A conference in Croydon, England, sponsored by the International Association for Religious Freedom and the World Congress of Faiths, and inspired by Datuk Leslie Davidson, who received the 2008 Meredeka Award for his service to the people of Malaysia.
Davidson may have done as much to feed the world as any other human being alive today. Where Jesus provided the loaves and the fishes, Leslie has helped provide cooking oil for billions, while conserving much of the Malaysian rainforest (Datuk is an honour similar to knighthood).
BBC presenter Rev. Peter Owen-Jones opened telling us that Christianity as it is practiced is ruthlessly earnest in being anthropocentric. Christian scripture and ritual is human-centred. Yet we are called to build not just a Habitat for Humanity, but a Habitat for all life: “If we have a loving ecological base for God, this changes the entire way we live.”
Ethics, Ecology and the Interdependent Web – report (PDF).
“Michael Servetus: 500 years”
On 15 January 2011 the UK Chapter celebrated Servetus’s 500th birth anniversary..
“Michael Servetus: 500 years” at Rosslyn Hill Chapel, Hampstead, London 
Jeff Teagle lighting the chalice
Order of service
‘Journey to Compassion’ retreat
The ‘Journey to Compassion’ retreat (with World Congress of Faiths) took place on 8 – 10 March 2011 at the Brahma Kumaris Global Retreat Centre.
36 joined our IARF/WCF retreat near Oxford.
The speaker was Camilla Carr, who spoke on forgiveness. Her book, THE SKY IS ALWAYS THERE, tells the story of her 14 months as a hostage in Chechnya.
Camilla Carr at left
AGM 2011, UK Chapter
Annual General Meeting
12 May Thursday 2011
Dr Williams Library, 14 Gordon Square, London
Rev. Christopher Hudson of Belfast gave an inspired & well-illustrated talk on “Reconciliation & Hope”
He is joining our British IARF Committee.
German Unitarians’ Religious Fellowship General Meeting, 2011
German Unitarians’ Religious Fellowship General Meeting,
Kassel
Pentecost 2011
The German Unitarians held their biennial General Meeting in Kassel over the long
Pentecost weekend, on the subject of “Seeking the Future? Welcome to the New Land”
Please refer to the report by Rev John Clifford.
33rd World Congress Video Report
Video report from Congress
Caussanel Inter-religious Students movement, 2010-2011
Caussanel Inter Religious Students Movement was started at Thirunelveli, in Tamil Nadu State, India, with the motto of Universal Brotherhood…
Report (PDF, illustrated, 5 pages)
Visit Flickr page for inter-religious students’ program held on 13th Nov 2010.