2025 Events
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Extract from post Event CWR Newsletter:
We celebrated Inter Faith Week
We were invited to talk about our work in the Cheltenham community on 13 November as one of several events during Cheltenham’s annual Inter Faith week which ran from 10th to 17th November, organised by Cheltenham Inter Faith.
This year’s theme was Better Together.
We had a good discussion and identified potential opportunities for future cooperation. The University of Gloucestershire kindly hosted us in the lovely chapel on the Francis Close Campus and we were treated to a wonderful musical interlude from the group that performed the show Home at the Everyman during Refugee Week, organised by Sheila Manders.
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Chris Hewer
A full house at the Friends Meeting House were entertained and informed by the internationally renowned speaker on Christian/Muslim relationships, Dr Chris Hewer. Chris gave us a overview of the history of Islam, its range and divergences and brought these tensions into the modern world to help to explain some of the reasons behind conflicts and disputes across the middle east and beyond.
Salvation Army talk
A good number of CIF members braved a wet and windy night to attend a witty and informative talk on the works of the Salvation Army. Our speaker, Paul Stanford, gave us a great insight into the wide range of activities conducted by ‘The Army’ both locally and internationally.
2019 Events
Unitarian Talk
Can you spot our speaker Mark Hutchinson of Cheltenham and Gloucester Unitarians glowing in “the Light of approval”? A lively audience of CIF members and friends were put in festive spirit with tasty multi-cultural treats and mulled (non-alc) wine, and very much enjoyed. Mark’s informative and entertaining talk was on the history of Unitarians both worldwide and locally. Such was the level of interest that a lively question-and-answer session had to be drawn to a close by Chair Jack as CIF ends its 2019 season.
We hope to see you again soon in the new year.
Interfaith Week
Gloucester Pride
Three weddings
A lively evening learning about the customs and tradition of weddings across different faiths. Made all the more enjoyable by some delicious food before the meeting.
Oxford Friendship Walk
On 27th June several members joined the Oxford InterFaith Friendship Walk which
departed from the Jewish Centre in Richmond Road and arrived at the Central Mosque for a meal provided by the Mosque and the Jewish Community. Stopping for prayers, scripture readings and reflections at many points through the City with contributions from all the
world’s main religions.
Humanism
Who are the Humanists? What are their beliefs? How are they different, and similar, to an Atheist, a Secularist and other non-faith groups? These and other questions formed part of the illuminating and interesting talk by Humanist celebrant Hannah Hart of the Gloucestershire Humanists. It was a lively session with lots of interaction between our members and Hannah! She handled a range of questions and comments from the audience with great skill and empathy.
An evening well spent at the Hester’s Way Community Centre.
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