UK National Interfaith Week Event - Birmingham, United Kingdom

F or An audience of just over 50 people, mainly from Christian and Muslim backgrounds, gathered to watch a remarkable 2 or 3 years, and then work together for peace and reconciliation in environments where there is often tension and hostility. the Qur’an and the Bible relating to forgiveness, and concluded with the beautiful song ‘Make Me A Channel Of Your Peace’ which originates from documentary film about reconciliation Following the film, we invited words of Saint Francis of Assisi …”it and the power of forgiveness, entitled comments from the floor, and then is in pardoning that we are pardoned”, The Imam and the Pastor. The film is heard an extremely moving and again sung by Christian and Muslim one of a number of excellent remarkable personal testimony of one women. productions by Initiatives of Change, lady who managed to forgive her We then shared refreshments, stories formerly Moral Rearmament. It depicts mother later on in life, after many and friendship in a happy, relaxed the tremendous courage of two years of terrible, unspeakable abuse, atmosphere, before making our religious leaders in Nigeria, former particularly as a child. journeys home following a moving and enemies, to gradually overcome their enlightening evening together. suspicions and establish trust between We invited two women, one Muslim them, build friendship over a period of and one Christian, to read extracts from