Interfaith Harmony Breakfast 2021

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This year the breakfast gathering took place on Zoom, 9am - 11am, Thursday 4th February.

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After Saleha welcomed us, Simi prayed, remembering last year,

and God's Love Wins (artwork by Bethany Lock) was screen shared.

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Two of our local Members of Parliament took part, along with representatives of Lambeth Council, Lambeth and Southwark Police, and the South-East London NHS Clinical Commissioning Group. The issue of Covid vaccination hesitancy was addressed head on.

 

The running order is here and the video recording is here.

Remembrance 2020

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National Inter Faith Week in the UK in 2020 began with Remembrance Sunday on 8th November and ran until 15th November.
 
FTiL created a 'Remembrance' video as an activity during Inter Faith Week. We did this by recording a Zoom webinar with a sequence of speakers from a range of faiths, each offering 2 or 3 minutes of prayer or reflection on the theme of 'Remembrance'.  
 

The webinar took place on Monday 9th November at 6.30pm. You can see the video here.

Learning about one another

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Every year since 2013, FTiL has held an Inter Faith Walk in September, following a variety of routes in the Borough, and visiting 5 or 6 centres along the way. The coronavirus restrictions ruled out any walk in September 2020.
 

One of the important aims of the Inter Faith Walks has been to provide opportunities for learning about the centres that are visited and thus to help reduce prejudice and negative stereotypes.

 To further this aim this year, FTiL Chair Saleha Jaffer invited member organisations and associate organisations to prepare short messages about themselves at this point in time. At the suggestion of Rabbi Nathan Godleman, the messages were delivered to camera one by one in a continuous Zoom recording. 
 

You can view the resulting video here.