Content Warning: This episode contains discussions of gender-based violence, including femicide. Please listen with care.  

How did the pandemic shine new light on the role of faith and interfaith groups in the voluntary sector? What does it mean to have ‘intersectional’ conversations about women’s safety? Can looking back at periods of tension and division from our past give us hope to challenge hate in our present?

In this special episode for International Women’s Day, we spoke to London’s Deputy Mayor for Communities and Social Justice Dr. Debbie Weekes-Bernard, who shares her journey from the charity sector to City Hall, her first-hand experience of how women are driving interfaith dialogue in the capital, and what it means to ‘keep faith’ amidst the rise of the far-right. 

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Read more about the Loved and Wanted Campaign and London’s Violence Reduction Unit. 

Find out more about Women’s Interfaith Network’s grassroots women's groups and our wide-ranging projects. 

Keeping Faith: A How-To Guide is part of Women’s Interfaith Network's 2024 Keeping Faith Programme. Read more about the programme here and be the first to hear about upcoming events and ways to get involved by signing up to our newsletter. Views expressed on this podcast are the speaker’s own and may not reflect the views of Women’s Interfaith Network.

Hosted by Maeve Carlin

Produced by Maeve Carlin and Adam Brichto

Edited by Adam Brichto

Executive Produced by Lady Gilda Levy

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