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Leaving Faith Behind: The journeys and perspectives of people who have chosen to leave Islam
February 10, 2018 By Faith Matters

Leaving Faith Behind: The journeys and perspectives of people who have chosen to leave Islam

For over 20 years, Fiyaz Mughal OBE, the Director of Faith Matters has worked with faith communities. Having successfully set up national projects, like Tell MAMA, which he left in January 2017 after completing the set up and expansion of the project, he has been engaged in an area of work exploring the reasons why […]

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Dame Louise Casey States that Integration is Not A ‘Two Way Street’
January 9, 2017 By Faith Matters

Dame Louise Casey States that Integration is Not A ‘Two Way Street’

Speaking at the Communities and Local Government Committee today, Dame Louise Casey made the case for the findings of her review into opportunity and integration which took over 14 months to complete. Speaking with a sense of purpose, Casey suggested that “integration was not a two way street”, and that in fact she saw it […]

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Building Our Futures Together – Bridging the Armed Forces with Diverse Communities
April 19, 2014 By Faith Matters

Building Our Futures Together – Bridging the Armed Forces with Diverse Communities

Download this report We have been co-ordinating and running a number of sessions over the last 6 months which have involved engaging serving members of our armed forces and serving chaplains, with diverse and mixed communities across London. The work has involved holding numerous events in boroughs across London and we have also produced the […]

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Mosques in the Community Project
September 9, 2011 By Faith Matters

Mosques in the Community Project

  Faith Matters undertook the fieldwork and write up on the ‘Mosques in the Community‘ programme which was conducted on behalf of MINAB (the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board). This report builds good practice and ensures that mosques become not just institutions but living parts of their local communities, thereby ensuring that they play constructive […]

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BNP ‘exploited religious tensions’
May 13, 2010 By Faith Matters

BNP ‘exploited religious tensions’

The British National Party has been accused of attempting to exploit tensions between Muslims and Sikhs in a Government-funded report into relations between the two communities. The report is entitled the ‘Adab’ research report produced by Faith Matters. Academics have warned of a “real danger” of “serious communal disorder” in the future in some towns […]

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