By Marea Toresen, FFWPU Norway WFWP Norway celebrated International Women’s Day with a conference held in the Furuset Library and Activity Center on March 6, 2020. The theme of the conference was “I Want to Work: Immigrant Women’s Real Opportunities in Working Life”. There were panel discussions held by politicians and members of...
By Steinar Murud, UPF Norway We organized a program on the UN World Interfaith Harmony Week on Thursday 20th February 2020. The event was entitled «World Peace through Interfaith Harmony – cooperation based on common values». The program was in partnership with the network «My Neighbor», which is an initiative started by the...
By Jane Toresen, FFWPU Norway We organized a Family Festival and Blessing on Saturday 12th October 2019. The event started with fun games for families and children so that everyone could get to know each other. National Leader, Steinar Murud, gave an inspiring presentation on the value of the family. This was followed...
By Steinar Murud, UPF Norway We organized the celebration of the UN International Day of Peace in partnership with the mosque Central Jamaat E-Ahle Sunnat on Thursday 19th September, 2019. During the years we have developed a good relationship with this community. This time the secretary in the mosque gave a very good...
By Steinar Murud, UPF Norway The UN International Day of Family were celebrated on Diakonhjemmet University College in Oslo on Wednesday 22nd May under the title « The Family as the Fundamental Unit of Society – What does it entail?» The first speaker represented the Mormon Church and he spoke about the sacredness...
By Marea Toresen, FFWPU Norway On Wednesday, May 15th, four members of the High Noon team came to Oslo, Norway to give an evening seminar. We are very grateful that Andrew Love, David and Mitsue Wolfenburger, and Sancha Ogden could come to our nation despite how intense it made their schedule to be...
Strengthening Bonds between 2nd gen Families By Steinar Murud, FFWPU Norway For Easter weekend on April 18 to 22, 2019, a Scandinavian level family gathering was held in Kloten, Sweden. Young families from Denmark, Norway, and Sweden came together for a long weekend to connect as a community, strengthen family bonds, and enjoy...
“Challenging Intolerance and promoting Moderation” By Steinar Murud, UPF Norway On April 9, 2019, I was invited to the annual Ahmadiyya Muslims’ Peace Conference in Oslo, Norway. Their mosque Baitun Naser is the largest in Scandinavia with a capacity for 5000 people. I have participated several times before, but this time I was...
By Steinar Murud, UPF Norway Our annual “World Interfaith Harmony Week” event was organized on the 24th January in partnership with the largest mosque in Oslo, Central Jamaat E Ahle Sunnat. The mosque served as a great venue for our program under the title “Similarities across differences”. After a welcome from the imam...
By Knut Holdhus, FFWPU Norway Marea Toresen and Knut Holdhus of the FFWPU Norway represented the Family Federation at the kickoff event of an interreligious project called «The Dissension Society» on 20th November. This is a project in which 37 different faith communities present their views through recorded videos. Each faith community...
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