6 million rolls of sellotape
Updated: Aug 2, 2019 By Josie Child, PAX Media Producer Every year, the UK comes down with Christmas fever on a mass scale. Nobody is safe from this sugar-coated, glittery pandemic. Did you know that, every year in the UK, we put up 8 million Christmas trees, buy 6 million rolls of Sellotape, and drink 57 […]
Ambassadors for Peace Hong Kong
On 16th and 17th November 2018, The Revd Nadim Nassar and his team taught the very first Ambassadors for Peace programme to take place outside the Near East. Thanks to the tremendous support of the Anglican Province of Hong Kong, the teaching took place at St. John’s Cathedral in Central, Hong Kong. Ambassadors for Peace Hong […]
Ambassadors Gala Dinner 2017
Our 6th Annual Gala Dinner took place on Monday 13th November 2017 at Copthorne Tara Hotel in Kensington. We were very honoured to be joined by our Royal Patron, HRH The Countess of Wessex GCVO. We should like to thank everyone who came to support us. In addition to an excellent dinner, our supporters enjoyed music by Soumaya […]
International Conference 2018
The Awareness Foundation held a major conference, “The Future of the Near East: The Role of Christians in Building Peace and Healing Communities”, on 7th and 8th November 2018 at the Copthorne Tara Hotel in London. The keynote speeches were given by our Royal Patron, HRH The Countess of Wessex GCVO, and Dr. Souraya Bechealany, the first female Secretary-General […]
Fundraising Concert, Wandsworth
We should like to thank Nick Hughes and his amazing choir, Occasional Voices, for giving us a wonderful concert at St. Mary Magdalene Wandsworth Common on the evening of Saturday 20th October. The concert was in aid of the Little Heroes Over two hours, we were treated to a wide range of music, including numbers […]
What does science have to do with faith?
Updated: Aug 2, 2019 By Francesco Foti Edited by Josie Child If you believe in science, can you also believe in God? This video explores all the reasons why people might believe that the two – science and religious faith – are antithetic. It asks whether scientific progress alone can satisfactorily explain our existence. Religious people […]
‘Marhaba’: My Awareness Sunday
Updated: Aug 2, 2019 A personal reflection by Magda Karkosinska-Deneault Edited by Josie Child Awareness Sunday 2018 🙏 Father Nadim Nassar gave a moving and passionate sermon in Holy Trinity Sloane Square church, and this is what stuck in my mind: Marhaba – ‘God is love’ · MARHABA is an old Arabic greeting meaning: ‘God […]
The Daisy in the Rubble
Updated: Aug 2, 2019 The imagined experience of a displaced Syrian child, based on accounts of the real lives of our Little Heroes in Syria. By Phoenix Bergman, aged 16 Edited by Josie Child Before We crouched in darkness as one shivering mass holding onto one another for dear life. Although together we felt safer, our […]
What I’m taking away from reading ‘The Culture of God’
Updated: Aug 2, 2019 By Nadim Nassar The Syrian Jesus: Reading the Divine Mind, Sailing into the Divine Heart Blog by Josie Child Over the past two months (or perhaps two years since Nadim started writing the book!), here at the Awareness Foundation we have been living and breathing The Culture of God. Published on 6th […]
Nadim joins his new church – and signs book!
On Sunday 9th September, The Revd Nadim Nassar was officially welcomed as Associate Priest by The Revd Philippa Boardman MBE and her congregation at St Mary Magdalene Wandsworth Common. After the service, Nadim signed copies of his books.