Interreligious Co-ordinating Council in Isreal, hosted by Simon Hughes MP.
The ICCI is a women's group organising lasting active projects for Jewish, Christian and Muslim women. Having come from Jerusalem, where they all live and work, three women spoke at Porcullis House about their most recent project - the completion of a tri-lingual exploration of the role and importance of women in Israel and Palestine, entitled "Women of the Book".
It was pleasing to see that in Israel positive action is being taken to start to overcome, in some environments, the extraordinarily large barriers to co-operation. Targetting women, and hence families, ICCI are addressing the problem on the ground, at a grass roots level.
Interfaith Action and The Three Faiths Forum hosted an event with the newly founded Interfaith Society at Queen Mary University in its campus on Mile End Road.
Entitled "Why Interfaith?", it was an introduction to the concept of Interfaith and the launch of the new Interfaith Society at Queen Mary.
Speakers were:
John Battle MP, Labour MP for Leeds West and faith advisor to Tony Blair
Fiyaz Mughal, Director of Faith Matters,
Chair of the Ethnic Minority Liberal Democrats and Deputy President of the Party
Miriam Kaye, Interfaith Officer to the Board of Deputies of British Jews
Chaired by the co-ordinator of Three Faith Forum, Sidney Shipton OBE
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