Sisters of Faith for Peace

03/06/2024

We had an amazing time participating in the Vhi Women’s Mini Marathon 2024.
The weather was perfect and we had a great group of remarkable women of all ages.
It’s always a pleasure reconnecting with our ladies. 💕

05/06/2023

We were thrilled taking part in the VHI Women’s Mini Marathon 2023 (4 June) - Team SFP walking together with our amazing sisters, going beyond boundaries of faith, cultures and even age - we were Muslim, Christian and Jewish women with two young-in-heart nuns in their 80’s! 😄
All the while, we were supporting a great cause, raising funds for women Afghan athletes living in Ireland who were forced to flee their country after the Taliban seized power.
We have raised 727€ so far.

It was such a fantastic day, the weather was glorious, and we could form friendships while we challenged to walk the 10k.

This time, we had capes featuring our SFP logo, which was great fun, and also provided an opportunity to talk to people about our group.
We also had a good bit of fun with the Wonder Women theme 😊

Several family members came and joined us at the start and the end and cheered us on.

Our chairwoman Doris was interviewed by a correspondent and the article was subsequently featured in the Irish Independent.

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/sister-isabelle-smyth-83-joins-her-first-mini-marathon-in-dublin-as-part-of-an-interfaith-womens-team-raising-money-for-afghan-athletes/a458942676.html

It was really a blessed day!

Thank you so much to all who participated, supported and donated ❤️

If you would like to contribute, here is the fundraising link

https://www.idonate.ie/fundraiser/SistersofFaithforPeace

05/06/2023

Sisters of Faith for Peace are excited to be featured in the Irish Independent, sharing about our participation in the Women’s Mini Marathon 2023.
We are raising funds for women Afghan athletes living in Ireland who were forced to flee their country after the Taliban seized power.
A wonderful example of women of different faiths coming together to support a worthy cause!



If you’d like to make a donation, please click here
https://www.idonate.ie/fundraiser/SistersofFaithforPeace

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/sister-isabelle-smyth-83-joins-her-first-mini-marathon-in-dublin-as-part-of-an-interfaith-womens-team-raising-money-for-afghan-athletes/a458942676.html

A group of Muslim, Jewish and Christian women, including two elderly catholic nuns, took part in the Women’s Mini Marathon on Sunday to raise funds for Afghan athletes living in Ireland who were forced to flee their country after the Taliban seized power.

04/06/2023

And we’re off - Team SFP at the Vhi Women's Mini Marathon
It’s not too late to support our chosen charity 😄

https://www.idonate.ie/fundraiser/SistersofFaithforPeace

30/05/2023

We are excited to be participating this year again in the VHI Women’s Mini Marathon, this coming Sunday 4 June 2023, with Team SFP (Sisters of Faith for Peace) where will be walking the 10km together as Muslim, Christian and Jewish women.
With this activity, we will also be supporting our chosen charity - for details please click the link https://www.idonate.ie/fundraiser/SistersofFaithforPeace.
We would greatly appreciate if you would consider supporting our cause with a donation - any amount will be most welcome.
We had such a great experience last year in spite of the rain, so we are looking forward to the excitement with hopefully some sun :)

08/04/2023

What an incredible night we had at the iftar (fast-breaking meal during Ramadan) earlier this week, with the amazing ladies from the Muslim Association of Ireland (Irish MAI Endowment) also known as the Tallaght Mosqu!

We enjoyed such a warm welcome: while seated in a beautiful space, we had a wonderful time meeting each other and having fun during the interactive programme. And let's not forget the wonderfully tasty food: from a range of salad spreads, variety of starters, dips and soups to scrumptious rice and mouth-watering chicken and even sweeter deserts, drinks and coffee! We were truly spoiled for choice and were even gifted small tokens to remember the evening! As if we could forget!

We are deeply very thankful for such an amazing welcome and a wonderful opportunity to connect and learn about each other in such an enjoyable way.

Thank you to all the ladies who worked so hard on the evening from the wonderful programme to amazing food: 🤲 may God reward you abundantly for all your efforts and hard work, truly amazing: we loved every moment and the time just fly by!!!

We pray and hope we enjoy meeting new and old friends at many future events and until then, you can enjoy some of the images from the event and read a few testimonials below:

"A huge and sincere thank you for.. such a beautiful event yesterday. I have heard so much about the work of Sisters of Faith for Peace,..but this was my first chance to attend an in-person event. I can’t tell you how much I enjoyed having the chance to dialogue with such a genuinely diverse group of women and how powerful it was... to be able to communicate across language and culture to commonalities. The women of other faiths at my table and I were agreeing what a privilege it was to observe our sisters praying and being in a position to break the fast with them".

"Thank you so very much again for a lovely and very enlightening evening on Monday last at the Tallaght mosque. And again to commend you for the work you are doing to unite people of different faiths and create harmony, may you be blessed in all directions" (A guest who joined us from Wexford).

27/03/2023

The Sisters of Faith for Peace and a number of our guests have been kindly invited by the Muslim ladies from Tallaght Mosque (MAI) to join in one evening for their fast-breaking meal during Ramadan, called ‘Iftar’. This will be at sunset of Monday, 3 April 2023.
If you are interested to join us, please drop us a mail to [email protected] for details and to register.
As for this event places are limited, we would ask you to please register with us by Friday 31 March 2023.

This will be a women’s gathering for women from all faiths, and there will be a food buffet including vegetarian food.

We really appreciate this invitation as this is a wonderful opportunity to connect and learn about each other in such an enjoyable way.

08/12/2022

Wrapping up the year in style with our sisters over a lovely dinner 🥰

26/10/2022

Lovely meeting with our core sisters again and discuss new activities, it’s always exciting, and we treasure our friendship ❤️

06/06/2022

What a day we had yesterday at the VHI Women’s Mini Marathon in Dublin! (5 June 2022)
So proud of our group, and we loved every minute of it. ❤️Enjoying each other’s company across the different faiths, while we challenged ourselves to walk the 10km. In spite of the non-stop rain we had so much fun it made it easy 😍
Also, we were raising funds for our individual charities of choice with this walk.
Here’s to next year - go Team Sisters of Faith for Peace 😉

19/05/2022

We loved our Family Walk and Picnic this past Sunday (15/05/2022)! We had a lovely group of people from several different faith communities and really enjoyed just to connect and be together in such a relaxing and friendly way, across the boundaries of the different faiths. We were truly lucky with the weather as the rain set in the following day. The pictures speak for themselves :)
With this event we could also honour the UN Day of Families which takes place annually on this date.
Thank you to all who came along and enjoyed the day with us.

14/05/2022

Our ‘Mary in Islam’ Event this past Thursday (12/5/2022) was so inspiring. Fardus gave an insightful and very engaging presentation about this topic which was followed by a lively Q&A session. It was fascinating to learn about this especially for Christian’s who may not have been aware of Mary's significance in Islam, and to see the connection between the different Abrahamic faiths.
Huge thanks to the Margaret Aylward Centre for hosting and creating such a welcoming atmosphere and in particular to Dympna Mallon for organising the event. :)