Faith Leaders Unite Ahead Of EDL March
Faith leaders in Peterborough are inviting residents to add their signature to a book open at the Town Hall confirming they 'value diversity in the city.'
This comes ahead of a march by the English Defence League, who say they are 'anti-Islamic extremism,' on Saturday the 11th of December.
Peterborough City Council and Cambridgeshire Police are working together to make sure the EDL march as well as the counter demonstration by the Trade Union Council are both peaceful. Previous events in Leicester and Bolton have ended in violence.
Peterborough inter-faith statement |
Members of the faith community who have signed the Interfaith Statement:
Rt Rev Donald Allister
Bishop of Peterborough
Church of England
Rt Rev Michael Evans
Bishop of East Anglia
Roman Catholic Church
Rev Terry Oakley
Moderator of East England Synod
United Reform Church
Very Rev Charles Taylor
Dean of Peterborough
Father John Warrington
RC Dean of Peterborough
Canon Malcolm Griffiths
Rural Dean of Yaxley
Qari Muhammad Munir
Faizane Madinah
Brian Keegan
Representing the Interfaith Council
Rev Tim Woolley
Director of Mission Methodist – Northampton
Syed Shabbir Ahmad Bukhari
Masjid e Khadijah
Moulana Tariq Nawaz
Dar Assalaam
Representative of the Husaini Islamic Centre
Jaspal Singh
Sikh Community
Aubrey Corran
Orthodox Jewish Community
Rev Tim Edworthy
Baptist Church
Rajni Reddy
Hindu Community
Kelsang Yeshe
Buddhist Community
Dr S Firoozmand
Baha’I Faith
Dr Clive Morton
Churches Together in Central Peterborough
Fr David Jennings
Faith & Cohesion Network
Salvation Army
The statement has also been endorsed by:
Rev David Rogers, Baptist Regional Minister, East Midlands, Rev Peter Hancock, Methodist, Chair N’hants District,
Rev Hugh McCurdy, Archdeacon of Huntingdon.
The statement has the support of:
The Faith and Cohesion Network, The Interfaith Council of Peterborough, The Imams Council of Peterborough
and the Churches Together in Central Peterborough