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Praying for a peaceful world where people of all faiths and none come together to treat all animals with care and respect, today on World Animal Day.

Praying for a peaceful world where people of all faiths and none come together to treat all animals with care and respect, today on World Animal Day.

All Welcome!  ASWA Annual Service 2016 – Sunday 2nd October at 9.30am at The Church of St Cross, Winchester. Eucharist. Preacher – ASWA President – The Rev. Dominic Walker OGS. ASWA Animal Blessing Service – Sunday 2nd October at 3.00pm at St Andrews Church, Jarrom Street, Leicester.  Interfaith family service with pets welcome.  There willContinue reading “ASWA World Animal Day Services”

World Animal Day (WAD) – 4th October – is fast approaching. Please share with us what you are doing for animals on WAD.

AIA’s Barbara Gardner talks to Sandra Kyle and Lynley Tulloch of Safe & Sound Radio about the faith’s teachings on the compassionate treatment of animals.  Subjects include ‘do animals have souls?’, ‘do animals have rights?’, veganism and new insights from Pope Francis’ new encyclical letter, Laudato Si’. Listen to the podcast here: http://www.accessradio.org/Player.aspx?eid=bdeea6d8-ddc7-4f31-b330-319f58a8828e Visit andContinue reading “Safe & Sound Radio interviews AIA’s Barbara Gardner on Faiths and Animals”

Quaker Concern for Animals (QCA) celebrates 125 years in 2016 with the launch of their new book, Journeys of Compassion on World Animal Day on 4th October, in Friends House bookshop in London.  Journeys of Compassion is a beautifully illustrated 74-page compendium of the Quaker witness to the world’s non-human animals.  Other animal related books willContinue reading “QCA Launch ‘Journeys of Compassion’”

Wildlife SOS helps rescue elephant that was abused and shackled for over 50 years! In what was one of the most dangerous and emotionally charged rescue operations of the decade, an elephant that was shackled for over 50 years and continuously abused by his captors was finally rescued by Wildlife SOS after a persistent effortContinue reading “World’s Unluckiest Elephant Finally Walks Free”

Shambhu’s Catering cookery demonstration – Saturday 24th September at 2.30pm-5.00pm at The Calthorpe Project, 258-274 Grays Inn Road, London, WC1X 8LH.  Indian cuisine by Nishma.  For further details click here

AIA has called for the Liberal Democrats to undertake a review of animal rights in legislation. On 17th – 20th September 2016, the Liberal Democrat Lawyers Association held their Rights-Liberties-Justice (RLJ) meetings at the Liberal Democrat Conference in Brighton.  One of the meetings was entitled ‘Animal Welfare – Animal Rights. Time for A Review?’ andContinue reading “AIA Calls for Review of Animal Rights in Legislation at Lib Dem Lawyers Meeting”