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EME News
News and reports from IARF’s Europe and Middle East region, including regional gatherings, member-community developments and issues directly connected with EME’s work.
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“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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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, KasselPentecost 2011 The German Unitarians held their biennial General Meeting in Kassel over the longPentecost weekend, on the subject of “Seeking the Future? Welcome to the New Land” Please refer to the report by Rev John Clifford.
Banning halal and kosher
2011 In June this year, the lower house of the Dutch parliament passed a law requiring animals to be stunned before they are slaughtered. This would effectively ban the production of meat according to kosher rules (for Jews) and halal rules (for Muslims). The proposal, which will shortly be debated in the upper house, fits […]
Morocco: Controversy over religious freedom
Two years ago …six Moroccans were arrested for having a picnic during Ramadan in protest of a law banning eating in public during Ramadan. Two years and a new constitution later, Morocco still doesn’t have provisions guaranteeing more religious freedom for its citizens. http://wwrn.org/articles/36012/
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World congress in Birmingham organized by IARF from HANSZIEMEDIA on Vimeo.
