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Bahá’í Centre hosts low budget interfaith lunch to tackle extreme poverty and malaria

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Interfaith low budget lunch at Bahá'í Centre

What is it like to live on £1 per day? Representatives from seven religions came together at the National Bahá’í Centre on 1 March to share a lunch, costing just 70p per person, in support of the charity challenge “Live Below the Line”. Nearly one and a half billion people live on this budget every day, not only for food but for all their daily needs. During the lunch guests from the Bahá’í, Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, and Sikh faiths discussed their perspectives on faith, food, poverty and malaria. A video of the lunch can [...] Read more »

UK Baha'i community represented at G8 Religious Leaders' Summit

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Susanne Tamas (centre) represented the Baha’i community of Canada at the G8 World Religions Summit 2010 in Winnipeg, Canada The UK Baha’i community was represented at the G8 World Religions Summit 2010 in Winnipeg, Canada, from Monday to Wednesday of this week. Barney Leith, a member of the UK Baha’i community’s national governing council, joined other representatives from the world’s religions for the summit at the University of Winnipeg ahead of the G8 and G20 summits in Toronto. The World Religions Summit 2010 was the sixth in a series of interfaith gatherings associated with the [...] Read more »

Bahá'ís join G20 faith message – "leaders must not forget promises to the poor"

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The national governing council of the UK Bahá’í community has joined with the country’s religious leaders in urging the G20 leaders not to forget their commitments to the world’s poorest people in the current economic crisis. In a letter issued in advance of the G20 meeting in London, political leaders are called upon to consider the moral issues at the root of the current financial crisis, and to pay special attention to the needs of poor, marginalised and vulnerable people: “to forget their needs would be to compound regrettable past failures with needless future injustices”. [...] Read more »