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Conversations Across Beliefs This is a platform where people of all faiths and none are welcome to discuss important issues of our day.

We aim to share conversations from which we become better disposed to respect differences, seek solutions, and encourage compassion for all.

On Sunday the 6th of March, a small group representing different faiths was received by Bishop Irenei at the Russian Ort...
08/03/2022

On Sunday the 6th of March, a small group representing different faiths was received by Bishop Irenei at the Russian Orthodox Church in Chiswick and His Grace invited us to partake in the service of Forgiveness, as the period of lent begins. It was a beautiful service and we were welcomed by the clergy and congregation.

We were introduced to the ROC Ukrainian priest and two members who were from different countries beyond Russia yet belong to the Russian Orthodox Church and we prayed together.

To us it was clear it is not a peoples war and no one we met seem to support it. We delivered the attached letter signed by nearly 100 individuals, and have now received a response that the letter has been forwarded.

After the meeting, Irma and I went to the Ukrainian Orthodox Autocephalic Church and delivered a copy of the letter we had given to Bishop Irenei of the Russian Orthodox Church and assured them of our support as and when required.

They requested us to include the appeal (attached) on our net work's websites and publicise it where ever appropriate. Do please consider putting it on your website too.

Finally we must thank each one of you for the support you have given us without which our appeal would not have carried any weight.

Thank you for being there.

Irma & Jehangir Sarosh

For the week of World Interfaith Harmony, we held an intergenerational conversation and launched the collection of state...
12/02/2022

For the week of World Interfaith Harmony, we held an intergenerational conversation and launched the collection of statements that we had gathered.

Conversation across Beiefs would like to share them with you, and please do not hesitate to use/ distribute them as and how you feel appropriate.

We would love to hear your comments and thoughts about them.

If God didn’t invent human rights - why should religious people support them?In response to the International day of Rel...
19/09/2021

If God didn’t invent human rights - why should religious people support them?

In response to the International day of Religious Freedom, we are getting together to tackle the very pressing issue of human rights.

Throughout most of human history the idea that all
humans were “endowed with inalienable rights” seemed in no
way self-evident. Nor had any god decreed human rights in the
form we think of them today. Over the last three generations, however, the idea of human rights has not only gained wide support but come to form something of an ideological basis for the global community as well as many democratic countries.

Whereas some religious groups flag wholehearted support for human rights, others are hesitant. Isn’t human rights becoming a secular religion, they ask, placing individuals’ whims and desires at the centre of our reflections about what a good life is, a place that god or religious or philosophical values should occupy?

As a brief starting point (case study) the conversation will begin
with the Russian Orthodox Church’s official teaching on human
rights ‘that God must stand above any secular ideology’ and will
explore the tensions between their religious thinking and secular
ideologies. They are, of course, not alone in claiming that God
must stand above any secular ideology. However, human rights
have served humanity so well, and religious freedom is so good
for religious people, that it is critical to find a way to explore this important topic openly.

The conversation will explore possible strategies that both the religious and secular could follow to give human rights their necessary place in our shared global community without absolutising them to the detriment of religious thinking.

Please go to our event page and register on Zoom, and we will send you a link to the event.

This event is sponsored by Interfaith Scotland, World Congress of Faiths, All Faiths Network, Interfaith Council for Wales, Humanists UK, an.d the International Association for Religious Freedom

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