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Interfaith Week 2022
As members of the Inter Faith Network for the UK, TDN is highlighting the importance of religious literacy during inter faith week (13th to 20th November 2022). Phil Ryder, chair of The Druid Network, writes: The theme of #InterFaithWeek 2022 is to highlight the vital importance of religious literacy. In our increasingly digital world literacy…
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Druid chairs diversity group
Leonore Newson, trustee at The Druid Network, has accepted the role of chairing the Faiths and Beliefs Network at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust. The hospital trust has several inclusion and diversity networks in place to support the diversity of both staff and patients, including Disability and Wellbeing, BAME, LGBTQ+ and Faiths and Beliefs. Each…
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TDN trustee reappointed to senior IFN position.
October 2022 : TDN trustee Neil Pitchford is appointed for a second three year term as Vice Moderator for the Faith Communities Forum of The Interfaith Network of the UK (IFN). After successfully serving for three years in the role of Vice Moderator and statement making moderator, Neil is the first Druid in the UK…
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At this time
The trustees of The Druid Network extend their thanks to Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, as she makes her transition into mystery. Many people will recognise that the Princess Elizabeth was inaugurated into the Druid traditions through the Welsh Eistedfodd, but of course that was a matter of cultural respect rather than religion, and…
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Marriage Law; good news
TDN is pleased to read the final Report by the Law Commission, “Celebrating Marriage: A New Weddings Law“. The report recommends adoption of almost all the points made by The Druid Network in its submission to the Law Commission a few years ago. If formally adopted into UK law it will make legal handfastings far…
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Druidry and Interfaith
A statement by Phil Ryder, Chair of The Druid Network. It is often asked what it is that makes us human. Humanity is currently at a crossroads with major worldwide problems requiring urgent decisions from our political leaders. Whilst within interfaith we recognise our discreet differences we also celebrate that which unites; our challenge is…
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Cultivating Honorable Relationships with the World: Lessons from the ‘Scriptures’ of Druidry
On October 17, 2021, for the first time in history, Druids (Dr. Larisa A. White & Mr. Neil Pitchford) were invited to speak at the Parliament of the World’s Religions about contemporary World Druidry. The presentation made at the Parliament of the World’s Religions is now available on YouTube. Here is the link.
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TDN Supports CEE Bill
The Druid Network has formally offered its support as a faith group organisation to the CEE Bill campaign in Britain, seeking to push through the Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill. Link: https://www.ceebill.uk. Our logo site proudly amongst many others now (roughly on page eight of the Supporting Organisations). The CEE Bill is a Private Member’s Bill.…
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TDN to be represented in the Conference Interfaith Call for Ecocide Law
TDN trustee and IFN representative Neil Pitchford will be attending the inaugural Conference Interfaith Call for Ecocide Law by Faith for Ecocide Law, a multinational interfaith initiative calling for the crime of ecocide to be placed on the Rome Statute so as to give legal protection to our planet, the environment and all life on Earth.…
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