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Westminster Interfaith Newsletter
Issue 63 – September 2009
Forthcoming Events
These are the events / organisers we know about, the list is not exhaustive:
BUDDHIST CHRISTIAN VEDANTA CENTRE
10 October 2009, Day of Meditation at Chilworth Priory nr Guildford led by Elizabeth West. Details from lyndab1@btinternet.com.
16-18 October 2009, Buddhist Christian Retreat led by Elizabeth West and Kate Morrow at Hilfield Friary, Dorchester, Dorset, DT2 7BE.
Focus will be on how Buddhist teachings and practice can deepen Christian faith and practice. Cost, details and booking : hilfieldproject@franciscans.org.uk.
10-16 December 2009, Shamata retreat, led by Alan Wallace at Jamyang Buddhist Centre, The Old Courthouse, 43 Renfrew Rd, London, SE11 4NA. Cost details and booking : http://www.jamyang.co.uk/visitingteachers.html#awa or tel: 020 7820 8787.
FORUM OF FAITHS, KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA
20 January 2010, 5-7pm at Chelsea Methodist Church, 155A Kings Road, SW3.
Homelessness in Kensington and Chelsea.
INTER FAITH WEEK:
15 - 21 November 2009,
http://www.interfaithweek.org
ST ETHELBURGA'S
78 Bishopsgate, London EC2N 4AG.
Tel:020 7496 1610. Fax; 020 7638 1440.
enquiries@stethelburgas.org www.stethelburgas.org. 24-page programme 2008/2009 available.
ST MELLITUS CHURCH
St Mellitus Road, Tollington Park, London, N4 3AG
Sunday 11th October 2009, 4pm
in the Sacristy, Subject: Archbishop Oscar Romero,
Speaker: Julian Filochowski.
22nd November 2009, Prisoners' Sunday, 3.30pm:
Speaker: Mgr Malachy Keegan, Principal RC Chaplain to HM Prisons.
ST PETER'S, BELSIZE SQUARE NW3 4HJ.
Wednesdays in October 2009. Series of Inter Faith Talks Details to be confirmed. www.spbp.org.uk
ST PHILIP'S CENTRE, LEICESTER.
13,20 & 27 October 2009, 3-day training course.
Details on www.stphilipscentre.co.uk
SOUTH LONDON INTER FAITH GROUP
Lunch meetings monthly at
Streatham Friends Meeting House.
Details from
secretary@southlondoninterfaith.org.uk
SCRIPTURAL REASONING - NORTH LONDON MEETING
convened by Rabbi Janet Burden and Revd Maggie Hindley is open to all Jewish, Christian and Muslim believers with an interest in the shared study of the sacred texts of these three faiths.
If you would like to attend any of their meetings, please email no later than 48 hours in advance of the respective meeting. office@scripturalreasoning.org.uk
Monday, 12 October, 2009, 10 for 10.15am, London Inter Faith Centre (LIFC),
125 Salusbury Road, NW6 6RG, on Conversion.
Subsequent dates 14/12/09, 8/2/10, 12/4/10 and 14/6/10 alternating between LIFC and the Montagu Centre, 21 Maple Street, W1T 4BE (Warren St)
SION CENTRE FOR DIALOGUE AND ENCOUNTER
34 Chepstow Villas, W11 2QZ
Programme : 020 7313 8286 / 020 7727 3597, sioncde@yahoo.co.uk
Series: 'Respecting Difference in Interfaith Dialogue' Sundays, 2.30 - 4.15pm. Suggested donation £8.00 per session.
18 October 2009, 'The Messiah - What this means to a Jew and a Christian'. Mr Jonathan Gorsky; Lecturer: Heythrop College. Dr Jane Clements; Director: Forum for Discussion of Israel and Palestine.
15 November 2009, 'A Christian and a Sikh talk together'. Mrs Sarah Thorley; teacher and Author on World Religions for children and adults. Dr Kanwaljit Kaur Singh; British Sikh Education Council, Ofsted Inspector of Sikh schools.
SOUTHWARK CATHEDRAL
Details of interfaith events
http://cathedral.southwark.anglican.org/whatson/
WEEK OF PRAYER FOR WORLD PEACE
11 – 18 October, http://nfpb.gn.apc.org/Prayer
Sunday 11 October, 3pm. Inter Faith Prayer for Peace. At St Pancras OLD Church, NW1 4RT. (N.B. This is NOT the church on Euston Road.)
WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL INTERFAITH GROUP
Wednesdays once a month 11 a.m. to 12 noon, Hinsley Room, Morpeth Terrace, SW1P 1Q.
woodhousesopten@btinternet.com
Current theme: The relationship between Christianity and Judaism.
October 21st, 2009, Sister Margaret Shepherd, of the Sisters of Sion
November 11th, Rabbi Mark Solomon
December 16th, Rachel Heilbron of the Three Faiths Forum.
WORLD CONGRESS OF FAITHS,
125 Salusbury Road, London NW6 6RG Tel: +44 (0)1935 864055
admin@worldfaiths.org
Thursday 5 November 2009, 7pm, Southwark Cathedral, London Bridge, SE1 9DA.
2010 WCF Moral Maze. Topic: 'Greed or Need?' Details shortly on www.worldfaiths.org,
Sunday, 8 November, 2009, 4.15pm, WCF with South London Inter Faith Group (www.southlondoninterfaith.org.uk) Prayers for Peace on Remembrance Sunday, at Southwark Cathedral.
Saturday 17 October – Thursday, 12 November 2009. The Global Ethic Exhibition will be on display in Southwark Cathedral, London Bridge, SE1 9DA. It invites the viewer to become acquainted with essentials of the world religions and their ethical message in its relevance for our contemporary society. The curator of the exhibition in the UK is Canon Alan Race of St Philip's Centre, Leicester, Editor in Chief of the World Congress of Faiths journal
http://www.interreligiousinsight.org.
UK SPIRITUALITY
Saturday, 7 November, 2009, 11am – 3pm: Hampstead Dances of Universal Peace. Celebrate diversity with a vibrant, joyful, light and yet deep variety of dances, including Jewish nigun dances, partner dances, Sufi zikrs, Christian harmony dances, from slow meditative to fast and exuberant moods. www.ukspirituality.org
