Women's Interfaith Network - Aiming to build a better, more inclusive society through women-led projects promoting friendship and embracing difference.

London, England
Joined November 2010
We want to say a big thank you to everyone we've worked with in 2025 - to our partners, our authors for the 'Keeping Faith' book, podcast and webinar guests, our amazing members and supporters, and everyone who's come to our events. #2025 #20YearsOfWIN
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Today the Sikh community commemorates the announcement in 1708 that the Adi Granth, the Sikh sacred text, would be Guru Gobind Singh's successor and become the eternal, living guru of the Sikh community. #Sikhism #GuruGranthSahib
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#ShubhNavratri to our Hindu friends and followers! Tonight begins the festival of 'nine nights', worshipping the Divine Mother in all her forms & celebrating the victory of good over evil in the Goddess Durga's victory over the demon Mahisha. #Navratri #Shakti #Hinduism
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Today is the #InternationalDayOfTheGirl - a call to action for #girlsrights, amplifying the voices of the next generation of women leaders. This year's theme, developed in consultations with girls' rights networks around the world, calls us to #EndChildMarriage.
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This year's #BlackHistoryMonth theme is #HonouringOurCommunities, "inviting us to recognise the individuals whose everyday contributions shape, support and sustain Black life across the United Kingdom". Go to blackhistorymonth.org.uk to get involved #BlackHistoryMonth2026 #BMH26
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Today Jewish congregations celebrate the end of the annual cycle of reading the Torah and its beginning again with Genesis, representing the unbroken continuity of the Jewish scripture. #SimchatTorah #Judaism
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#JashneMeheregan or #MihrJashan is the Zoroastrian Autumn harvest festival dedicated to the deity Mithra or Meher, the angel of covenants featured in many texts and traditions from the ancient world and often linked to the sun. #Zoroastrianism
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Today begins the festival of #Sukkot, commemorating the 40 years the Jewish people spent in the wilderness after liberation from Egypt. Jewish families build temporary outdoor shelters (sukkah) to gather and eat together, open to the elements & decorated with leaves #Judaism
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The #InternationalDayOfPeace was established in 1981 as a call to action for 24 hours of non-violence and cease-fire, and a reminder that sustainable development and true equality - particularly for women and girls - depend on #peace.
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The #AutumnEquinox marks the halfway point between each solstice when day and night are equal lengths. This Pagan festival is a time to give thanks for the fruits of the #harvest as well as looking ahead to the darker months. #Paganism
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Wishing our Jewish friends an easy fast today! #YomKippur is the holiest day of the Jewish calendar: a 26-hour fast at the culmination of a 10 day period of #repentance, reflection and atonement. #Judaism
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#InternationalEqualPayDay raises awareness of the global #PayGap between men & women, with women earning on average 77 cents for every dollar men make. From today onwards, women are effectively unpaid for their work for the rest of the year. #EqualPayDay
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#Samvastari - or #ForgivenessDay - is the last day of festival of #Paryushana & the holiest day in the Jain calendar. Today many believers observe a total fast, spend the day in prayer, contemplation & seeking #forgiveness from from all living beings for any harm caused #Jainism
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This festival celebrates the birth of the beloved elephant-headed deity & son of Shiva and Parvati, #Ganesh. Also known as #Ganapati, Ganesh is the god of wisdom, prosperity & remover of obstacles, commonly invoked before marriages & long journeys. #GaneshChaturthi #Hinduism
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#ShanahTovah! Today is the beginning of the Jewish New Year festival #RoshHashanah. The shofar (ram's horn) will be blown in synagogue while, at home, many communities traditionally celebrate with honey cakes or apples dipped in honey to usher in a 'sweet' New Year. #Judaism
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#Paryushana or #DasLakshana is a central festival in the Jain calendar: a period of reflection, purification & seeking forgiveness. Believers fast, meditate & recite sutras as well as asking forgiveness for any offence caused throughout the year. #Jainism
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#Janmashtami celebrates the birth of Krishna, the popular Hindu deity & 8th avatar of Vishnu. Celebrations include distributing sweets & dairy products - believed to be a favourite of the young Krishna - & a 24 hour fast ending at midnight, the hour of Krishna's birth. #Hinduism
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It's #ESEAHeritageMonth, celebrating the diverse identities, cultures & traditions of our #ESEA communities. This year's theme is #EvolvingThreads: "honouring the ways in which ESEA stories, actions & solidarities are continuously woven together across time, place & community".
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This Buddhist and Daoist festival is celebrated in China, Taiwan and their diasporas, providing food, comfort and guidance to 'hungry' wandering spirits who visit the living as the gates of the afterlife are opened #TheFestivalOfHungryGhosts #Zhohgyuanjie #ChungYuan
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How are young people keeping faith in the future? The last #blog in this series from our first #YoungWriterInResidence Zara Ahmad, is now live on our website. Read the full piece and find out how to #getinvolved here: ow.ly/T16x50ZF2Yl
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