{"id":75258,"date":"2016-10-21T11:25:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T11:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=7583daf8e00c5a0ba3816198ad9cd11d"},"modified":"2016-10-21T11:25:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T11:25:00","slug":"speech-get-involved-with-inter-faith-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=75258","title":{"rendered":"Speech: Get involved with Inter Faith week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Inter Faith Week (13 to 20 November), is designed to bring together people from different backgrounds.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the Community Life Survey (2015 to 2016) found that 89% of people agree that their local area is a place where people from different backgrounds get on well together.<\/p>\n<p>So we should be proud of our success as a tolerant, integrated nation.<\/p>\n<p>But of course there is always more we can do.<\/p>\n<p>For example the government funds <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cuf.org.uk\/near-neighbours\">\u2018Near Neighbours\u2019<\/a> projects to bring together people from all faiths and backgrounds in some of our most diverse and deprived communities.<\/p>\n<p>Since its launch in 2011, more than 1,100 projects have been set up, involving 1 million people.<\/p>\n<p>Rabbi Natan Levy worked with Twitter to bring together young women from Jewish, Muslim and Christian backgrounds to learn computer coding together.<\/p>\n<p>And Muslim, Jewish and Christian organisations in Leeds worked together to set up <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/toastlovecoffee.wordpress.com\/\">Toast Love Coffee<\/a> \u2013 a pop up caf\u00e9 to enable people from the diverse Harehills community to come together and meet.<\/p>\n<p>The projects we support may seem small and local &#8211; but that is their strength.<\/p>\n<p>They build friendships across communities, creating the networks of trust that give communities the strength to resolve difficult local issues, overcoming misunderstandings, suspicion and intolerance.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019d like to get involved in Near Neighbours during Inter Faith Week \u2013 or any time of the year \u2013 visit <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cuf.org.uk\/near-neighbours\">www.cuf.org.uk\/near-neighbours<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Inter Faith Week visit <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.interfaithweek.org.uk\">www.interfaithweek.org.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image embedded\">\n<div class=\"img\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lord Bourne at Inter Faith\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/image_data\/file\/57411\/LB_IFN_meeting960.jpg\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Communities Minister Lord Bourne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}