Cultural Exchange Tour For Indian Students Enhances The Ties Between India & The United Kingdom The British High Commission in Delhi in partnership with the Jamia Millia Islamia Academy is sponsoring 2 Indian students to visit the United Kingdom as part of a cultural exchange visit to find out more about the work […]
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Summary: During the August riots across England, Sikhs and Muslims came together to guard Mosques and Gurudwaras from looters. Sangat TV did their part in helping the police and showed some of the close knit bonds between Sikhs and Muslims, both of whom worked together to defend their businesses and towns. Unfortunately, three young Muslim […]
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The UK is seeing a surge in Brits converting to Islam, According to a report by “Faith Matters.” And the vast majority of women who converted also changed their appearance with a significant majority adopting the hijab. {youtube}P8pNQKZAW04{/youtube}
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Faith Matters held a joint Muslim and Christian dialogue session in Lahore on the 2nd of May 2011. Young people from both faith communities expressed their perspective on being proud Pakistanis and in looking at the multiplicity of identities that people have, rather than singular identities. They also discussed some of the fears and insecurities […]
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This is a unique Iphone and Ipad downloadable programme that is based on the Developing Diversity directory which Faith Matters produced in 2010. The programme provides detailed information on 100 of the most women friendly mosques in England that are rated according to whether they meet 5 or 4 key requirements that Muslim women wanted […]
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Big Society? My Society? is a series of youth-led conferences in three UK cities (London, Birmingham and Derby) in partnership with local partners on the theme of the inclusion of young people in building community cohesion and fighting discrimination. Each conference is organised and led by Faith Matters Youth Forum and gives an opportunity for young […]
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St George’s Day 23rd of April For people of faith and no faith, there are some things that bind us to the places in which we live and to the people that we see and meet around us. Traditions, festivities, national occasions and local gatherings all give us the feeling that we are communities within […]
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During a short trip to the West Bank this November, an interfaith group, most of them British Muslims from the Faith Matters organization, visited Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Ramallah and Hebron through a Holy Land Trust program for five days. Faith Matters is a UK interfaith and community cohesion-based organization that works “towards conflict resolution and cohesion […]
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Rotherham DVD Launching St George’s Day – The Big Society
Continue ReadingEAST MEREDITH, NY – The current hard-line legislation considered by Israeli lawmakers to ensure “loyalty” of Arab citizens reflects tensions and mistrust on both sides of the Arab-Israeli divide. The climate is leading many to believe that maintaining equality between Arab and Jewish citizens of Israel is unsafe or unnatural. But this conclusion ignores the […]
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