Tarek Elgawhary sits down with Melissa Llarena to talk about the meaning behind the Coexist Bumperstickers and his vision for Coexist
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3 months ago
Meet the Coexist Foundation President Dr. Tarek Elgawhary
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3 months ago
Did you know that you can support your favorite charity while doing the things you do every day at no extra cost to you? We're calling it passive giving – helping without having to put in much thought or effort.
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almost 4 years ago
The Coexist Foundation, in partnership with the Equality and Human Rights Commission and Goldsmiths College, facilitated the first of a series of lunchtime meetings on March 18, 2014.
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about 4 years ago
Coexist is all about bringing people together and providing access to education. What better way to support our mission than by working with other organizations trying to do the same?
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about 4 years ago
Last week, Coexist Foundation Director of Projects Michael Wakelin attended “Image of the Other: Media, Social Media and the Internet,” hosted by the KAICIID Dialogue Centre in Vienna, Austria.
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about 4 years ago
Coexist Coffee’s first time at a major coffee event went swimmingly. We made new friends in the industry, caught up with folks we know, and had a fantastic time talking Coexist.
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about 4 years ago
Many, many people ask us about our coffee. Where does it come from? Why, exactly, does it taste so good? Is it better than Starbucks? (Yes.) But more importantly, why is it different?
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about 4 years ago
The second year of the Cambridge Coexist Leadership Programme kicked off on January 7, 2014.
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over 4 years ago
Retail therapy – shopping to improve your mood – may seem like something that was invented to justify your last mall visit, but more than half of us have done it. Unfortunately, that boost is practically guaranteed to be short-lived. So what can you do to make yourself happy in the long run?
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over 4 years ago
Thanks to you, we’re running out of our delicious coffee. So we’ve ordered a new batch, which it turns out is a pretty impressive process. Here’s the journey that Coexist Coffee takes to get to you and what we mean when we say that it’s incredibly high quality.
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over 4 years ago
As we close out the year, we thought it would be worthwhile to take a look back at some of the inspiring stories of coexistence that took place in 2013.
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over 4 years ago
The Coexist Foundation co-hosted a high-level faith and media conference with a focus on truth, power, and communication at St. George’s Windsor.
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over 4 years ago
’Tis the season for presents and shopping, for giving back, for being generous. Now more than ever, you can do all of those things at the same time.
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over 4 years ago
We get asked a lot of different questions when we’re out at events. Where does the coffee come from? Is it any good? Are you the bumper sticker people? But one that keeps popping up is where can I get more coffee? Our answer used to be that you have to order online or find us at an event. But as of next Monday, you’ll be able to buy us in a real brick-and-mortar store.
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over 4 years ago
You probably know by now that we keg our cold brew, but you might not know where the magic happens. We’ve thankfully gone beyond our office kitchen and teamed up with some kick-ass local brewers.
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over 4 years ago
Thoughts on the Metro Cooking & Entertaining Show and how you guys funded 416 weeks of school over the course of two days.
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over 4 years ago
NEW VISION FOR LONDON FAITH CENTRE ANNOUNCED AT MANSION HOUSE DINNER, AS RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY IS CELEBRATED IN THE CITY
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over 4 years ago
Meet Shoshannah Nambi, who attended Semei Kakungulu High School, one of the Kulanu schools that your coffee purchases help fund.
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over 4 years ago
Here’s a brief rundown of people who have written reviews about Coexist Foundation events at the Cheltenham Literature Festival.
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over 4 years ago
I have a 5-year-old daughter and I love her. We play together, I spoil her, and she’s my princess. I love to watch her bring home her schoolwork and impress me with her progress. She is keen and alert at school and enjoys the learning environment.
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over 4 years ago
Monday morning, we received an incredibly generous donation. The donation provided 1,666 weeks – that’s over 42 school years – worth of education to children in our partner communities.
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over 4 years ago
On Sunday afternoon, in partnership with the BBC, we crowned the new winner of our “Pause for Thought” talent search.
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over 4 years ago
The Coexist Foundation is sponsoring several events at this year’s Cheltenham Literature Festival and have sold well over 3,000 tickets.
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over 4 years ago
Maybe it’s hubris, or just selective comprehension, but I’m pretty sure Madonna has been talking about Coexist lately.
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over 4 years ago
The six Pause for Thought finalists in the Coexist/BBC Talent Search were brought to London’s BBC HQ for the day.
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over 4 years ago
Our corporate partner, Zenify, has been busy the last few weeks gearing up for their big launch at the Natural Products Expo East. With 5% of their profits going to Coexist, we’re psyched to be part of what they’re doing. Oh, and we love the drink, too.
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over 4 years ago
The Coexist Foundation is once again a sponsor of the Times Cheltenham Literature Festival taking place Oct. 4-12. Please see the following schedule of Coexist events.
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over 4 years ago
Coexist brewmaster Dana Reinert takes you from concept to keg as she describes the development of our new nitro brew.
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over 4 years ago
The Coexist Foundation co-hosted a lunch today with Lord Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, who is now the Master of Magdelene College Cambridge.
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over 4 years ago
If you had stopped by the Coexist Campaign office at all this week, you would have seen an endless stream of people, packages, lunches from Café Tu-o-tu, kegs, coffee, and, in general, organized chaos. Why? Because tomorrow is the H Street Festival and we’re going all in.
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over 4 years ago
Together we are stronger, together we are mightier, together we are able to overcome our fears and our anxieties, and together we can break down the barriers that we have put up around ourselves.
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over 4 years ago
The Coexist team made new friends and met a lot of interesting people at the Greenbelt Festival. One of those was Ged Tyrrell, CEO of Tank Coffee, a distributor and roaster based in the UK. He invited us to take a look at their operation, so we sent Michael out to do just that. Here's his report from the visit.
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over 4 years ago
We need to be extremely careful with how we communicate — accuracy and transparency are paramount. This is one of the reasons we at Coexist are obsessed with developing tangible criteria by which to measure the success of our programs and projects.
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over 4 years ago
The Coexist Foundation made its presence felt at the Greenbelt Festival in Cheltenham, England Aug. 23-26, sponsoring events and setting up shop at the annual arts, faith and justice celebration.
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over 4 years ago
Do you coexist for peace? Education? To make the world a better place? We want to know about it.
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over 4 years ago
Show us how you're coexisting. Ten lucky Greenbelt-goers will win a stylish Coexist t-shirt to take home with them. Can't make it to the UK for the festival? Stay tuned for how to win at home.
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over 4 years ago
You'll soon be seeing Coexist pop-up booths at festivals and farmers markets starting this weekend in the UK at the Greenbelt Festival. Meet the team behind the design and learn about what's in store when you see us out and about.
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almost 5 years ago
Six finalists in this year’s Pause for Thought competition will deliver their two minute reflections during the Times Cheltenham Literature Festival.
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almost 5 years ago
Read on if, in addition to being interested in a multifaceted festival with music, comedy, visual and performing arts, you are also interested in finding out how to get the newest Coexist clothes (including the adorable onesies).
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almost 5 years ago
The BBC launched its second talent search, in partnership with Coexist, to find a new voice for its popular “Pause for Thought” programme.
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almost 5 years ago
Coexist is working with the Prince’s School to promote public outreach programmes in schools and colleges.
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almost 5 years ago
The University of Cambridge has long been promoting high-quality, scholarly enquiry into Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
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almost 5 years ago
Coexist partnered with Meedan, a specialist in on-line translation, to develop Meedan.org
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almost 5 years ago
Coexist’s partnership with Gallup produced the “Poll of the Islamic World.”
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almost 5 years ago
Coexist partnered with Meedan to develop Nurani, an offshoot of meedan.org.
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almost 5 years ago
Coexist organized special programs bringing together key academics, foundations and activists.
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almost 5 years ago
Coexist joined innovative on-line education specialists Microbooks and a team of scholars to develop the Understanding Faiths series.
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almost 5 years ago
Challenging questions, intriguing answers, robust debate…
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almost 5 years ago
It's tough to coexist until we know each other. That's our philosophy. Lance McPherson and Michael Wakelin of the Coexist Foundation had the trips of a lifetime, meeting with people in Uganda and India who had figured out how to coexist.
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almost 5 years ago
These must be the best looked-after factory employees in India.
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almost 5 years ago
Our friend Vipul took us to the Chetna Organic Headquarters, not so far away, and introduced us to the team.
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almost 5 years ago
An unassuming person, Arun Chandra Ambatipudi has been instrumental in creating a farmer-owned organic cotton cooperative that is now present in three regions of India (Andhra Pradesh, Orissa/Odissa, and Maharashtra).
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almost 5 years ago
This was so exhausting. Yet for Chetna's farmers, it was a sign of just how far they have come together.
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almost 5 years ago
Hi, my name is Michael. Today is my birthday. I never imagined I might spend it like this!
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almost 5 years ago
Were we interested in vanilla or cocoa? Community leaders were excited to tell us about other products that they made. But we just plain loved their coffee.
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almost 5 years ago
The Cambridge Coexist Leadership Programme seeks to cultivate leaders able to use their own religious affiliation as a basis for dialogue and collaboration.
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almost 5 years ago
On our first day in Uganda, we got to meet with some key players in the Peace Kawomera efforts. It was all about relationships from the get-go.
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almost 5 years ago
On May 21st 2013, representatives from Coexist attended the world famous Chelsea Flower Show as special guests of Chris Beardshaw Ltd.
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almost 5 years ago
Representatives of the Coexist Foundation recently completed dialogues with the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), in partnership with Adam Dinham at Goldsmiths College.
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about 5 years ago
The fourth annual Insight Film Festival was held in Manchester from March 15th-17th.
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about 5 years ago
With the vast majority of the world’s population profess belief in a religion, it is no longer viable that we remain ignorant of what this means.
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over 5 years ago
The Cambridge Coexist Programme is launching a year-long Leadership Training Programme for senior rabbis, pastors, and imams.
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over 5 years ago
Coexist played a significant part in enriching the Greenbelt Festival with a new emphasis on multi-faith content and film.
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over 5 years ago
The first Mosintuwu Children’s Peace Festival was held to create a meeting space for children from different religions and ethnic backgrounds.
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almost 6 years ago
Coexist worked with SFCG to create the Common Ground News Service (CG News).
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almost 6 years ago
At the University of London’s Heythrop College, Coexist helped establish the world’s first Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts programmes focused on the Abrahamic Religions
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almost 6 years ago
In partnership with The Coexist Foundation, Eudaemonia conferences provide training to Religious Education teachers and school managers across the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore.
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almost 6 years ago
With the Cambridge Coexist Programme and The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival, BBC Radio 2 launches search to find faith-based broadcasting talent.
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about 6 years ago
Submit a short film to the 4th Insight Festival for a chance to win awards & prizes and have your film viewed by some of the industry’s best and brightest.
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about 6 years ago
James Kidner, Coexist’s Director in London, set off from Greenwich Park with 35,000 others to run in the 2012 London Marathon.
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about 6 years ago
Lian Gogali, from Indonesia, is the first recipient of the Coexist Prize.
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about 6 years ago
Coexist brought together a distinguished panel of religious leaders at New York University on 20th March to explore building bridges.
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about 6 years ago
The Coexist Prize, worth $100,000 (£60,000), will honour an unsung hero who has made an exceptional contribution to building bridges between people of different faiths.
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about 6 years ago
The first Coexist Award was presented at the Insight Film Festival at the Zion Arts Centre in Manchester, England on December 4th 2011.
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about 6 years ago
Union Theological Seminary will hold a Coexist Prize Scriptural Reasoning event on March 20th.
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about 6 years ago
Union Theological Seminary hosted a Scriptural Reasoning event sponsored by Coexist and facilitated by the Cambridge Inter-faith Programme on 20th March.
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about 6 years ago
Coexist sponsors a series of lectures at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
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about 6 years ago
Coexist proudly sponsored a series of lectures and discussions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on 18th March.
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about 6 years ago
The Coexist Foundation is proud to announce the 2012 Coexist Prize finalists.
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about 6 years ago
Goldsmiths, University of London, in partnership with the Cambridge Coexist Programme, is presenting a series of round table dialogues on religion and belief for the EHRC.
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about 6 years ago
Six finalists have been selected from nearly two hundred candidates for the first Coexist Prize.
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about 6 years ago
The Coexist Prize received over 300 nominations, from over 30 countries on 5 continents.
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over 6 years ago
Coexist was pleased to host a pilot project of the Alliance of Religions and Conservation in late November.
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over 6 years ago
Coexist is exhibiting at the annual AAR conference in San Francisco from 19th-22nd November.
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over 6 years ago
The Cambridge Coexist Programme has partnered with one of the world’s top garden designers, Chris Beardshaw, to create a ‘festival garden’ which we hope to launch at the Chelsea Flower Show in 2013.
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over 6 years ago
Michael Binyon, the respected international commentator and leader-writer for The Times, profiled Coexist in a feature published in Saturday’s edition.
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over 6 years ago
The Coexist Forum is a series of topical and timely conference calls, events, and talks convened by the Coexist Foundation.
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over 6 years ago
Coexist hosted a special luncheon on September 12 to honor the contribution that the Prepare New York Coalition made for the Tenth Anniversary of 9/11.
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over 6 years ago
Coexist launches a global search today for an unsung hero who has made an exceptional contribution to building bridges between people of different faiths.
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over 6 years ago
Rev. Bud Heckman, Director of External Relations for the Coexist Foundation USA, spoke about the contributions of Jews, Muslims, Christians, and others to the world’s most religiously diverse nation.
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almost 7 years ago
On August 9th, Tanenbaum hosted a special evening at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York to provide an opportunity to meet and learn about the inspiring work of the members of Peacemakers in Action.
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almost 7 years ago
Meedan, in partnership with the Cambridge Inter-faith Programme and Coexist, has developed the first release of Nurani, a cross-language open source platform for inter-religious dialogue.
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almost 7 years ago
The Coexist Foundation USA sponsored a luncheon at the North American Interfaith Network’s recent meeting in Phoenix, Arizona on July 26, 2011.
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almost 7 years ago
This October, the Cambridge Coexist Programme joins forces with the Times Cheltenham Literature Festival to create a fascinating new series of polemical events focused on religion.
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almost 7 years ago
The Insight Film Festival, in association with Coexist, has received hundreds of entries from film-makers exploring faith.
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almost 7 years ago
On 25th June James Kidner, Director of Coexist, pedalled off across Dartmoor to raise funds for Coexist.
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almost 7 years ago
Coexist team members Mr. Tarek Elgawhary and Rev. Bud Heckman contributed to the discussions at the recent Religion and Foreign Policy Summer Workshop at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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almost 7 years ago
Coexist’s “Nurani” project, to develop digital dialogues between Muslims, Christians and Jews, has won a prestigious UK Research Councils’ grant worth $450,000.
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about 7 years ago
Coexist’s project with on-line educational specialists Microbooks – the Understanding Faiths series – has now reached the App Store.
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about 7 years ago
Professor David Ford, Director of the Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme, gave the Pope John Paul II Honorary Lecture in Rome on 5th April.
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about 7 years ago
The ‘Three Faiths’ exhibition illustrated the most important threads running between the three faith communities.
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about 7 years ago
Prince Charles’ School of Traditional Arts came to New York to launch a series of workshops illuminating the sacred arts of Jews, Christians and Muslims during the Three Faiths Exhibit.
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over 7 years ago
British Library Sacred Exhibition
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over 7 years ago
Coexist partnered with the Three Faiths Forum (3FF) to create the Intercultural Forum (ICF).
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over 7 years ago
Coexist supports the Tent at St Ethelburga’s, which offers a unique meeting place in the City.
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over 7 years ago
Further fountains, with a similar, simple, timeless message, are planned for parks and public places around the world.
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over 7 years ago
The Coexist Insight Film Festival provides a platform for young film makers to explore aspects of religion, culture and identity.
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over 7 years ago
Coexist is pleased to be taking part in the British Education and Technical Training fair in London from 11-14 January.
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over 7 years ago
At the Annual New York City Faith Leaders Breakfast in the New York Public Library, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg praised the “Three Faiths” exhibit and encouraged people to go and see it.
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over 7 years ago
On the 1st of December 2010, the first five graduates of the University of London’s pioneering new BA course in Abrahamics received their degrees.
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over 7 years ago
Coexist is proud to be co-sponsoring a major new exhibition at the New York Public Library from October 22nd to February 28th 2011.
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over 7 years ago
Inspired by the British Library’s acclaimed ‘Sacred’ exhibition in 2007, ‘Three Faiths’ sets the New York Public Library’s magnificent collection of Jewish, Christian and Muslim manuscripts side by side for the first time.
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over 7 years ago
Coexist has been proud to partner with acclaimed US-based documentary-makers Odyssey to develop iPhone Apps which go behind the story of some of the exhibits in the New York Public Library’s “Three Faiths” exhibition.
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over 7 years ago
Coexist has been supporting Eudaemonia Conferences, who provide specialist training for Religious Education teachers in schools, since 2008.
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over 7 years ago
Coexist has been proud to support a tour by the acclaimed writer and broadcaster William Dalrymple, with musicians from across many faith traditions, to celebrate the themes in his new book about the religious of the Indian subcontinent, “Nine Lives”.
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over 7 years ago
Two of Coexist’s Trustees – the Grand Mufti of Egypt and the Bishop of London - joined religious leaders from across Egypt at the launch of a major new arts festival at St John’s Church in Cairo on 28th January 2010.
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over 7 years ago
Coexist has been pleased to support the [Alliance of Religions and Conservation] (http://www.arcworld.org/) in their work with the [United Nations Development Programme] (http://www.undp.org/) and other partners from around the World’s faith communities working to ensure better environmental stewardship in the run-up to and after December’s Copenhagen meeting.
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over 7 years ago
The Coexist Foundation is pleased to announce that two new Trustees have joined our Board.
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over 7 years ago
The Coexist Foundation has been working with International Medical Corps to help rebuild relations between Christian and Muslim families in Mosul, Iraq.
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over 7 years ago
As part of its long-term commitment to the University of Cambridge’s Inter-Faith Programme, the Coexist Foundation has matched a large donation from Dr Leonard Polonsky to endow a new Lectureship in Jewish Studies at Cambridge’s Faculty of Divinity.
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over 7 years ago
A series of conferences entitled ‘Engaging with Islam Today: One Religion, Many Faces’ concluded on the 15th January 2008 at Leeds University.
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over 7 years ago
James Kidner, Director of the Coexist Foundation, addressed the World Conference on Dialogue to improve understanding between faith communities.
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over 7 years ago
Since 2006 the Coexist Foundation has been supporting the work of the University of [Cambridge’s Inter-Faith Programme] (http://www.divinity.cam.ac.uk/cip) and [St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace] (http://www.stethelburgas.org/) to develop Scriptural Reasoning tools.
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over 7 years ago
In the wake of the Mumbai terrorist attacks, and under the shadow of the Gaza crisis, the Coexist Foundation sponsored a series of “Concerts for Peace” at the acclaimed Jaipur Literature Festival in India from 21st-24th January.
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over 7 years ago
London’s Victoria & Albert Museum hosted a Coexist-sponsored lecture by Professor David Ford, director of Cambridge University's Inter-Faith Programme.
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over 7 years ago
In conjunction with the Cambridge Inter-faith Programme, Coexist is supporting a new partnership with the US-based not-for-profit technical translation specialists, Meedan.
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over 7 years ago
On 3rd September 2007, the Mayor of St Jean Cap Ferrat in France, M. Rene Vestri, with local community and faith leaders, and the Director of the Coexist Foundation, James Kidner, inaugurated a new drinking fountain in a park overlooking the Mediterranean, “in the name of peaceful coexistence between faiths”.
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over 7 years ago
Coexist is sponsoring, with the Weidenfeld Institute and the British Government, a University of Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme conference on “Islam and Muslims in the World Today”.
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over 7 years ago
Coexist co-sponsored the Sacred exhibition at the British Museum with Saint Catherine Foundation, the Moroccan British Society, and others. Under the joint Patronage of HM The King of Morocco and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, the exhibit opened on April 26th, and will run until September 23rd.
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over 7 years ago
Coexist Foundation have a ten year not-for-profit agreement with the Gallup Organization to help in the dissemination of their World Poll findings on Muslim opinion.
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over 7 years ago
With the University of Cambridge’s Inter-Faith Programme and others, Coexist have been supporting work by the acclaimed exhibition designers [Ralph Appelbaum Associates] (http://www.raauk.com/) on a vision for Abraham House, a proposed new centre where the public can learn about the Abrahamic Religious traditions in a unique shared environment.
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over 7 years ago
Leading musicians from around the world collaborate for the first time in a series of Coexist Concerts for Peace.
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over 9 years ago
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