What is the Abraham Festival?

We are a gathering of the spiritual descendants of Abraham.   We are Jews, Christians and Muslims. The Torah, the Bible and the Qur’an are our holy books.

We have been meeting in Peterborough for nine years in a spirit of joy and wonder as we discover both our similarities and our differences. We are discovering we are spiritual cousins.

The 2012 Abraham Festival is going to explore the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.  

These goals were written by the United Nations and adopted by the countries of the world in 2000,  with the hope that they would be realized by 2015.  There are eight specific goals:

    Goal 1:   Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

    Goal 2:   Achieve universal primary education

    Goal 3:   Promote gender equality and empower women

    Goal 4:   Reduce child mortality

    Goal 5:   Improve maternal health

    Goal 6:   Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

    Goal 7:   Ensure environmental sustainability

    Goal 8:   Develop a Global Partnership for Development

We have chosen this topic because we want to reach not only Jews, Christians, and Muslims.  

We want to also reach out to people who care deeply about social justice and equality in the world, but who may not be members of a faith tradition.