A GROUND-BREAKING new booklet has been produced about the role of Muslims in helping Jews in the Second World War Holocaust. The booklet, ‘The Role of Righteous Muslim Persons’, has been produced by Faith Matters which is an organisation working towards conflict resolution and cohesion. The booklet was launched this week and aims to inform […]
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The Asian News Network report on the Top 100 Mosques demonstrated by the Developing Diversity Directory which Faith Matters produced. The report by the Asian News Network can be found here:
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Developing Diversity gets more press, Metro, Republika and many others see below… Metro: The document awards star ratings to mosques judged by a series of requirements including providing separate prayer space to women. A directory of 100 ‘women-friendly’ mosques in England has been launched Other criteria include services and activities for women, an imam accessible […]
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A directory of the 100 most “women-friendly” mosques in England is launched today, claiming to be “the start of the process to broaden and deepen the engagement of Muslim women in British mosques”. Fifty mosques were found to meet all five of the requirements set out by inter-faith organisation Faith Matters, while a further 50 […]
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The top one hundred mosques for meeting the needs of Muslim women will be revealed at the launch of a ‘Developing Diversity’ directory on 10 June 2010. The directory is compiled and launched by inter-faith, community cohesion and conflict resolution organisation Faith Matters, with government and national women’s Muslim groups’ support. Every mosque in the […]
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“Faith Matters have come up with a project that has not been devised in the UK before and on such a national basis. To take Sikhs and Muslims from across the UK to Corrymeela in Northern Ireland for conflict resolution work is bold, innovative and says a lot about the vision of cohesion that Faith […]
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“Faith Matters is active in building relationships between religious communities, especially Muslim and Jewish, and in combating extremism…..It was an inspiration to meet Fiyaz. If, as Liberal Jews, we work with organisations like his to recognise our common humanity, then we will make the world just a little bit safer for our children”.
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The Adab research, released by Faith Matters, called for effective dialogue between the two groups and for the two communities to “rediscover” their shared cultural heritage, including a common Punjabi heritage, history and culture. Funding for Muslim and Sikh organisations in areas with a significant presence of the two groups should be conditional on promoting […]
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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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