5 July 2021: Beyond Religion: Faith, Environment and Justice, meeting with Don De Silva.

The British Chapter of the International Association for Religious Freedom (IARF) will host a special open online meeting at 2pm UK time on Monday 5 July 2021.  Don De Silva, Former Senior Official at UN Environment Programme, University Buddhist Chaplain and Council Member of the Faith Forum for London, will talk on the topic of […]

Peaceful Coexistence in Zoroastrianism Ruzbeh Hodiwala Motivational Dialogue #9:

The Meeting The next meeting in the second series of our Motivational Dialogues will be held on Sunday the 28th of March at 5pm CEST on Zoom (see below for different time zones). You can watch recordings of previous meetings here. Ruzbeh Hodiwala, member of the Zoroastrian Cultural Foundation, a member organisation of the IARF, […]

Online Conference “Does Religion Set You Free” – registration, speaker and programme details

We set out to explore some aspects of the relationship between religion and liberty – through lectures, workshops, circle groups and a panel – to offer you an interesting mix of learning, sharing and socializing. There will also be an opportunity to meditate or pray together at interfaith devotions. Please visit the conference page for […]

Save the date: “Does religion set you free?” – EME Online Conference 2021 on 8-11 May 2021

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 CEST Sunday: from 10am to 6pm CEST Monday: from 4:30pm to 9:30pm CEST Tuesday: from 4:30pm to 9pm CEST The […]

Motivational Dialogue #8: January the 24th at 4pm GMT

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 […]

The President’s New Year Message

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 […]

Motivational Dialogue #4: Wendy Goldberg from Tri-Faith Initiative

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 […]

Motivational Dialogue Sessions

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 […]

The 35th Congress: Reimagine Interfaith

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. […]

EME Region Conference 2016: First Announcement

The next IARF Europe and Middle East Region Conference will be held on 22 – 25 August 2016 in Skopje and Tetovo, Macedonia, in collaboration with our local member group, the Bektashi Order (here you can read about IARF’s delegation recent visit to the region which included, among other things, preparations for the Conference). The […]