Asalha Puja Day
Asalha Puja Day, a Theravada Buddhist festival, takes place during the full moon of the month od Asadha. Mainly celebrated in Indonesia, Thailland, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and...
July 26th, 2021
July 20th, 2021
Eid al-Adha
Eid al-Adha, the Festival of Sacrifice, honours the willingness of Abraham to sacrifice his son Ishmael as an obedient act of God’s command. Before Ibrahim could sacrifice his...
July 18th, 2021
Nelson Mandela International Day
Nelson Mandela International Day is an annual day in honour of Nelson Mandela celebrated every year on July 18th on Nelson Mandala’s birthday. This day was officially declared...
July 18th, 2021
The Hajj
The Hajj, pilgrimage, one of the five pillars of Islam. Hajj means to attend a journey – meaning both the physical journey and the inward act of intentions....
July 18th, 2021
Tisha B’Av
Tisha B’Av is an annual feast day for Jews. It is today that a number of disasters in Jewish history occurred – the destruction of Solomon’s Temple by...
July 7th, 2021
Summer Festival of Learning
Multi-Faith Chaplaincy is involved in the summer Festival of Learning: Sport, Health and Wellbeing Stream which is being organised by the university between 12 – 31st July 2021....
June 22nd, 2021
Summer Solstice
Summer Solstice – Litha – midsummer is one of four solar holidays and is considered the turning point when the sun reaches its height and shines the longest....
June 22nd, 2021
World Humanist Day
21st June is World Humanist Day, celebrated around the summer solstice. This is a day for spreading awareness of Humanism as a philosophical life stance that means to...
June 20th, 2021
The Feast of Pentecost
The Feast of Holy Pentecost is celebrated each year on the fiftieth day after the Great and Holy Feast of Pascha (Easter) and ten days after the Feast...
June 18th, 2021
Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) For Multi- Faith rooms use during Covid-19 following government recent announcement
Update: These are still the SOP for Witham House until the Government lifts all restrictions. They have been updated following the Government announcement on Monday June 14th 2021...
