Events for 2012 -
Watch out for the Youth Peace Walk in March!
Come and join us on
Past Events:
Interfaith
week in Southampton with Interfaith Youth coordinator
Naheed Brora
One of the Southampton Council
of Faiths’ initiatives has been to concentrate on young
people and their involvement in
interfaith dialogue and debate. Throughout this year SCOFS’
youth coordinator, Naheed Brora has been working closely
with schools, colleges and universities to promote and
encourage interfaith debates and dialogue. They have been
airing their debates on radio, as well as giving students
the opportunity to visit places of worship together.
She has also been working to encourage as
many young people to become involved in interfaith work and
dialogue as possible, as she strongly believes that our
tomorrow is our youth of today.
Conversations with
the young people have shown that what youths have to say is
extremely relevant and important to today’s society, however
their voices need to be heard and auctioned, and she hopes
to do just that.
 Tauntons
College celebrated interfaith week by hosting our very own
version of 'The Big Question'. They had a panel of faith
representatives provided by the Southampton Council of
Faiths, and an audience of about 200 students who had
questions for the panel.
This was a very successful
debate and there were inputs from both the representative
panel as well as the students.
The
students enjoyed themselves, and later commented that they
would like to be able to continue to have these kinds of
debates where students are able to ask questions and
converse with people of different faiths without having the
fear of sounding disrespectful-
We organised the same event at Upper Shirley High. Again
students came equipped with questions for the panel of faith
representatives, and much to our delight the feedback was
very positive
The University of Winchester planned to have a panel of
faith representatives again, however we wanted to encourage
the audience to be more interactive during the whole debate.
So we encouraged the panel of faith representatives to come
from the students within the audience.
As an ice
breaker we thought it would be a great idea to get the
students to talk about their beliefs and what impact that
has on their life. This worked extremely well as the
students came up to the front and spoke so passionately and
freely about their beliefs without hesitation. This was a
great success, and we are planning more debate and dialogue
sessions.
Youth Peace Walk - March 13th
2011
meet at the Peace Fountain next to East Park Terrace
12.45 Leave Peace Fountain - East Park
13.15
Peterborough Rd Gurdwara (1hr) + Buddhist
14.30
Synagogue – Mordaunt Rd 1
15.10 St Edmunds Church, The
Avenue
16.00 Medina Mosque, Compton Walk
16.50 Vedic
Temple + Bahai
Click here for more photos of the
Steps for
Peace
For further information please
contact Naheed
-naheed@southampton-faiths.org
News update Dec 2010
At Tauntons College we have faith debates where students
from different faiths get together, and we discuss topics
such as; · Euthanasia
· War
· Stereotypes
· Arranged marriages
· What does faith mean to you?
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Why do interfaith dialogue? Is it important?
It is
a great opportunity for students to express their views and
thoughts and talk about issues that they would not otherwise
discuss. Also it is a great way of finding out what another
faith thinks and believes, and also a great way of getting
to know each other. At first the students were slightly
nervous of talking about their own views but as the weeks
have gone by, the students have grown in confidence and are
able to express exactly what they think and feel.
The students in our faith debate group say that it is “It is
very important that we talk about each other’s faith”
because they feel that it brings them closer together and
helps them understand where each other is coming from.
From Naheed Brora - Youth interfaith coordinator-
Hi my name is Naheed and I hope that you will
join me in supporting the fantastic work that the
Southampton council of Faiths has started in our city and
help me to raise awareness of the values of interfaith in
our communities.
I hope to be able to keep you up to date with new ideas
and things that are happening in the city
so please watch this space!
Please let me know your thoughts and ideas -
naheed@southampton-faiths.org
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Unity Radio101
David and I met up with Ram Kalyan "Kelly" from Unity 101.
Unity 101 have very similar ideas to the Southampton Council
of Faith, in that we all want to unite the community. We
want to be able to promote the values the most of the
religions. I feel that faith is something that is
not just an aspect of life it is a way of life, therefore
the values of each faith need be the basis of the sense of
understanding each person has for one another person and
person of faith. |
