CMF Trustees Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra and Aliya Azam attended the Installation Ceremony of Archbishop Richard Moth as the Twelfth Archbishop of Westminster on Saturday 14 February at Westminster Cathedral, London. All photos courtesy of Westminster Interfaith
Our annual meeting with our Patron took place on 5 November at Lambeth Palace. Hosted by the Archbishop of York, The Most Revd and Rt Hon Stephen Cottrell, we were delighted to be back at Lambeth to celebrate the forthcoming 20th anniversary of the Christian Muslim Forum. Our programme titled, ‘On Twenty Years of Christian […]
Recent events have reminded us of the palpable threat posed to our social cohesion by prejudice, hatred, Islamophobia, and violence towards minority ethnic and religious communities. The advance of far right populism and its malign use of Christian symbols and teachings continue to instil fear about the normalisation of ‘Othering’ and the marginalisation of minority […]
Our meeting today dealt with research conducted by Professors Kristin Aune and Sariya Cheruvalil-Contractor on new insights into an area of the higher education sector that is often neglected when it comes to treatment of the role of education in fostering mutual respect between faiths, worldviews, and social cohesion. Christian and Muslim higher education institutions […]
CMF organised a second session as part of our ‘Interfaith Media Training’ project on Sunday 16 June with a select group of young Christians and Muslims in central London. Delivered by media experts at Media Friendly, the session equips young people of faith with the skills and know-how to navigate and prepare for broadcast interviews. […]
Join us next week for our event on ‘Women and Prayer’, co-hosted with Westminster Interfaith, and featuring Sister Cathy Jones and Shaykha Saleha Islam sharing their perspectives on prayer, exploring not only how and why they prayer, but the impact this makes in their daily lives . Date and Time: Wednesday 27 November, 6.00 – […]
Our annual meeting with our Patron, The Most Rev Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury took place today in the beautiful gardens of Lambeth Palace. Archbishop Justin offered a very warm welcome to Christians and Muslims to Lambeth Palace where we gathered to discuss salient issues arising from national debates on migration, refugees, Islamophobia and the […]
The Archbishop of Canterbury, The Most Rev Justin Welby, shared his reflections on the race riots and building a society where we can live well together despite our differences in an opinion piece published in The Observer yesterday. He writes: Embracing the opportunities and challenges offered by living in such a diverse country is a […]
The Bishop of Gloucester, The Rt Rev Rachel Treweek has written a deeply moving piece about her recent visit to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory of East Jerusalem and the West Bank in June 2024. She writes: In the past I have been wary of using the word apartheid to describe the situation in […]
This week we were hugely privileged to engage in discussion with Dr Richard McCallum, one of our longstanding friends, on the topic of his recently published book, ‘Christian Evangelical Responses to Islam: A contemporary overview’. Published by Bloomsbury Academic, the book draws on over 300 texts published by Evangelicals in the first two decades of […]
CMF Trustee, Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra, was a speaker at the one day conference, ‘The Bloom Review, One Year On: Multi-Faith Perspectives’ hosted by the Woolf Institute and the Centre for Faith in Public Life at Wesley House in Cambridge on 30 April. Examining the questions: ‘Does Government ‘do God’? and ‘Just what role can faith […]
Our online discussion today focused on the ongoing siege of Gaza and the future prospects for a lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians. The violent attacks in southern Israel on 7 October has unleashed an unprecedented level of violence against the Palestinian communities in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. To date, an estimated 1200 […]