Hull & East Riding Interfaith

Hull and East Riding Interfaith cordially invite you to a meeting on Tuesday 18 March 2008 at 5pm in Committee Room 1, ground floor, the Guildhall, Hull with members of the Polish Association of Hull and the East Riding and also members of the local Filipinos Association.

Plus  - Clare Daybell on the future of ESOL teaching (English for Speakers of Other Languages) in Hull and the East Riding - an urgent consultation now

& Sheila Swift on a new Macmillan “Carers Support Scheme”

& Ann Hartill of Cloverleaf Advocacy on a new “Skills for Carers” project

& Brian Fellowes briefly on Circles of Support for ex-offenders
(interrupted by a fire alarm at the last meeting!)

ALL WELCOME - come and share your views!

Refreshments at 5pm. There is free parking in the Guildhall car-park from 5pm.

For map and more information please contact Jackie Lukes
Tel.01482-465408   or   J.R.Lukes@hull.ac.uk

 [from BBC News website]

The Archbishop of Canterbury has come under fire after appearing to back the adoption of Sharia law in the UK. The prime minister’s spokesman said Sharia law could never be used to justify a breach of English law.

Home Office Minister Tony McNulty said: “To ask us to fundamentally change the rule of law and to adopt Sharia law, I think, is fundamentally wrong.”

Dr Rowan Williams told BBC Radio 4 he believed the adoption of some Sharia law in the UK seemed “unavoidable”.

Read full report on the BBC News website:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7233335.stm

The hoax e-mail has been circulating for months

 [from BBC News website]

The UK government is taking the unprecedented step of writing to every embassy to stop a false e-mail rumour about Holocaust teaching being banned.

A widely-circulated e-mail has falsely claimed that schools in the UK will stop teaching the Holocaust because it might cause offence to Muslims.

Schools Secretary Ed Balls says he wants to “put an end once and for all to the myth” spread by the e-mail.

He says teaching the Holocaust remains “non-negotiable” in England.

This formal government rebuttal of a hoax e-mail has been prompted by a persistent rumour that “UK schools” are set to remove the Holocaust from the curriculum.

read the full article at:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7226778.stm

At a time when the talk is of identity and community, faith and social cohesion, conflict and peace building, are people of faith part of the problem or the solution?

As people of faith, we believe we have some very positive things to offer the city in the search for peace.  Our sense of belonging and community identity is an important part of this, it is linked to our hopes and aspirations, how we organize as a group and how we relate to others.  So, gaining a deeper understanding of our identity and other faith’s identities is a way to greater understanding of how we contribute to peacemaking.

Take the opportunity to hear from Professor Sebastian Kim speaking on this topic at the Annual BCDD Lecture:

Community Identity and Peacemaking: Meaningful Engagement of Religious Communities in Contemporary Society

Monday 10th March, 6.30pm
John Stanley Bell Lecture Theatre, University of Bradford

In this lecture Professor Kim will draw on recently published research on identity and faith communities.  He will describe the ways different faith communities interact with each other and wider society, and identify ways to build peace.

Professor Sebastian Kim is the first Professor of Theology at Yorkshire’s newest university, York St John University.  He has previously taught at the University of Cambridge, Seminaries in Seoul and in Pune, India.  His areas of specialist knowledge include World Christianity, Public Theology and Community and Identity.

If you would like to attend please contact Carmel Dylak at BCDD on 01274 488144 or admin@bcdd.org.uk

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHCR) has written to the Government expressing concerns that the measures contained in the Counter Terrorism Bill would have a ‘disproportionate impact on one sector of society’.

The full press release can be read at
http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/newsandcomment/Pages/concernoverdetentionlimits.aspx

The Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) has published ‘Majority Matters: Sexual Orientation, Religion and Belief (SORB) and Age’.

The report is an evaluation of two Citizens Advice projects funded by the Department of Trade and Industry covering sexual orientation, religion and belief, and age.

The full report can be downloaded at
http://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/majority_matters_evaluation_report.pdf