REFUGEE CRISIS: Faith Leaders’ Open Letter to the Prime Minister

• Lord Dr Rowan Williams, Former Archbishop of Canterbury
• Harun Rashid Khan, Secretary-General, Muslim Council of Britain
• Sanjay Jagatia, Secretary General, Hindu Council UK
• Lord Singh CBE of Wimbledon, Director of the Network of Sikh Organisations, UK
• Baroness Rabbi Julia Neuberger DBE, Senior Rabbi to the West London Synagogue
• Jamie Cresswell, President of the European Buddhist Union
• Nemu Chandaria OBE, Chair, One JAIN, Institute of Jainology
• Malcolm Deboo, President of the Zoroastrian Trust Funds of Europe
• The Most Rev’d David Chillingworth, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church
• Dr. Mohammad Shahid Raza OBE, Chairman, Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board
• Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner, Senior Rabbi to Reform Judaism
• The Most Rev’d Dr Barry Morgan, Archbishop of Wales/Archesgob Cymru
• Rabbi Danny Rich, Senior Rabbi to Liberal Judaism
• Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg, Senior Rabbi to Masorti Judaism
• His Eminence Gregorios, Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain
• His Grace Bishop Angaelos, General Bishop, Coptic Orthodox Church
• Rt Rev’d Russell Barr, Moderator of the General Assembly, The Church of Scotland
• Rev’d Dr Roger Walton, President of the Methodist Conference
• Rev’d Kevin Watson, Moderator of the General Assembly, United Reformed Church
• Paul Parker, Recording Clerk for Quakers in Britain
• Commissioner Clive Adams, Territorial Commander, The Salvation Army, UK and Republic of Ireland
• Imam Sheikh Sayed Razawi, Director General of the Scottish Ahlul Bayt society
• Mr. Sayed Yusif Al-Khoei OBE, Director, Al-Khoei Foundation

• Rt Rev’d Geoffrey Annas, Bishop of Stafford
• Rt Rev’d Dr John Armes, Bishop of Edinburgh, Scottish Episcopal Church
• Rt Rev’d Richard Atkinson, Bishop of Bedford
• Rt Rev’d Glyn Webster, Bishop of Beverley
• Rt Rev’d Richard Blackburn, Bishop of Warington
• Rt Rev’d Pete Broadbent, Bishop of Willesden
• Rt Rev’d Peter Burrows, Bishop of Doncaster
• Rt Rev’d Paul Butler, Bishop of Durham
• Rt Rev’d Gregory Cameron, Bishop of St Asaph
• Rt Rev’d Dr Richard Cheetham, Bishop of Kingston
• Rt Rev’d Christopher Chessun, Bishop of Southwark
• Rt Rev’d Jonathan Clark, Bishop of Croydon
• Rt Rev’d Stephen Conway, Bishop of Ely
• Rt Rev’d Stephen Cottrell, Bishop of Chelmsford
• Rt Rev’d John D E Davies, Bishop of Swansea and Brecon
• Rt Rev’d Dr. Gregor Duncan, Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway
• Rt Rev’d Richard Frith, Bishop of Hereford
• Rt Rev’d Jonathan Frost, Bishop of Southampton
• Rt Rev’d Clive Gregory, Bishop of Wolverhampton
• Rt Rev’d David Hamid, Suffragan Bishop, Diocese of Europe
• Rt Rev’d Peter Hancock, Bishop of Bath & Wells
• Rt Rev’d Mike Harrison, Bishop of Dunwich
• Rt Rev’d Peter Hill, Bishop of Barking
• Rt Rev’d John Holbrook, Bishop of Brixworth
• Rt Rev’d Anne Hollinghurst, Bishop of Aston
• Rt Rev’d Michael Ipgrave OBE, Bishop of Lichfield
• Rt Rev’d Jonathan Meyrick, Bishop of Lynn
• Rt Rev’d Roger Morris, Bishop of Colchester
• Rt Rev’d James Newcome, Bishop of Carlisle
• Rt Rev’d Adrian Newman, Bishop of Stepney
• Rt Rev’d Geoff Pearson, Bishop of Lancaster
• Rt Rev’d Tony Robinson, Bishop of Wakefield
• Rt Rev’d Martyn Snow, Bishop of Leicester
• Rt Rev’d Mark Strange, Bishop of Moray, Ross and Caithness, Scottish Episcopal Church
• Rt Rev’d John Stroyan, Bishop of Warwick
• Rt Rev’d Dr David Thomson, Bishop of Huntingdon
• Rt Rev’d Dr John Thomson, Bishop of Selby
• Rt Rev’d Tim Thornton, Bishop of Truro
• Rt Rev’d Dr Graham Tomlin, Bishop of Kensington
• Rt Rev’d Rachel Treweek, Bishop of Gloucester
• Rt Rev’d Graham Usher, Bishop of Dudley
• Rt Rev’d David Walker, Bishop of Manchester
• Rt Rev’d Rob Wickham, Bishop of Wickham
• Rt Rev’d Paul Williams, Bishop of Southwell & Nottingham
• Rt Rev’d Trevor Willmott, Bishop of Dover
• Rt Rev’d Alan Wilson, Bishop of Buckingham
• Rt Rev’d Ruth Worsley, Bishop of Taunton
• Rt Rev’d John Wraw, Bishop of Bradwell

• Bhai Sahib, Bhai Mohinder Singh Ahluwalia, Spiritual Leader & Chairman, Guru Nanak Nishkam Sewak Jatha
• Sughra Ahmed, Chair, Islamic Society of Britain
• Dr. Mohammad Manazir Ahsan, MBE, Chairman, The Islamic Foundation, Markfield, Leicester.
• Imam Qari Asim, MBE, Senior Imam of Leeds Mosque
• Dr. Waqar Azmi. OBE, Chairman, Remembering Srebrenica Trust, Birmingham.
• Canon Pat Browne, The Catholic Church of the Holy Apostles, Pimlico
• Baroness Butler-Sloss, Chair of the Commission on Religion and Belief in British Public Life
• Acharya Modgala Duguid, Interfaith Officer of the Network of Buddhist Organisations
• Dr Edie Friedman, Executive Director, The Jewish Council for Racial Equality
• Rabbi Herschel Gluck OBE
• The Very Rev’d Dr David Ison, Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral
• Rajnish Kashyap MCICM, Hindu Council UK, Vice President Arya Samaj Middlesex and Secretary Council of Dharmic Faiths UK
• Dr. Edward Kessler, MBE, Director of the Woolf Institute on Interfaith Research, University of Cambridge
• Rachel Lampard MBE, Vice-President of the Methodist Conference
• Shaykh ibrahim Mogra, Co chair of Christian Muslim forum
• Jehangir Sarosh, General Secretary, European Council of Religious Leaders
• Julie Siddiqi, Founder of Sadaqa Day
• Jasvir Singh, Co-Chair, Faiths Forum for London
• Bharti Tailor, Hindu Member of the RfP European Council of Religious Leaders

• Mr. Yousuf Aboobakar, Director, Muslim Food Board, U.K. Leicester.
• Sheikh Mohammed Al-Hilli, Head of Education, Noor Trust
• Hafiz Muhammad Ali, Jamia Islamia Centre, Sheffield
• Imam Hafiz Mohammad Ali, Jamiat Ul Muslimeen Jamia Masjid, Warrington
• Imam Hafiz Zahid Ali, Warrington Islamic Center, Warrington
• Dr Frederick Scott Ashmore, London Quakers management group
• Mufti Monawwar Ateeq, Mufti & Doctorate Researcher (University of Birmingham)
• Dr. Moulana Athar Hussain Azhari, Trustee, Taybah Trust, Leicester.
• Imam Aftab Muhauddin al Azhari, Jamia Masjid Muhammadiya Ghausia, Batley
• Moulna Qamaruzzaman Azmi, Head Imam, North Manchester Central Mosque
• Mr Moin Azmi, Vice Chair – Manchester Council of Mosques (MCOM)
• Dr. Mamadou Bocoum,, Director, Public Relations, The Muslim Law Council, London.
• Imam Hafiz Zeshan Baloch, Jamia Masjid Ghousia, Leeds
• Rev’d Peter E Barber, Chair of the Chester & Stoke-on-Trent District of the Methodist Church
• Rev. Hosei Lana Berrington, Head Priest of the North London Soto Zen group
• Rabbi Dr Barbara Borts, Darlington Hebrew Congregation
• Rt Rev’d Christopher Boyle, Assistant Bishop, Diocese of Leicester
• David Bradwell, Refugee Co-ordinator, Scottish Faiths Action for Refugees
• Rev’d Anne Brown, Chair of Bedfordshire, Essex and Hertfordshire Methodist District
• Ian Buchanan, Convener of Church and Society Committee, United Free Church of Scotland
• Simon Child, The Western Chan Fellowship Guiding Teacher
• Imam Hafeezurrahman Chishti, Chairman, Association Of Sunni Ulama, Leicester.
• Imam Irfan Chishti, Jamia Chishtia, Rochdale
• Imam Iftikhar Daad, Darul Ikhlas, London
• Sheikh Imtiyaz Damiel, CEO Abu Hanifah Foundation, Blackburn
• Dr. Ibrahim Darwish, Muslim Scholar & Journalist, London.
• Rev’d Clare Downing, Moderator of the Wessex Synod, United Reformed Church
• Helen Drewery, Genral Secretary, Quaker Peace & Social Witness.
• Rev’d Dr David P Easton, Chair, Methodist Church in Scotland
• Rev’d Jacky Embrey, Moderator of the Mersey Synod of the United Reformed Church
• Jason Kilburn Evans, Quaker Chaplain, University of Sussex
• Rabbi Michael Even David
• Rabbi Helen Freeman, West London Synagogue
• Rev’d Nicola Furley-Smith, Moderator of the Southern Synod, The United Reformed Church
• Rev’d Ruth M Gee, Chair of the Darlington District of the Methodist Church
• Andrew Gilbert, London Jewish Forum
• Rev’d Dr Barbara Glasson, Methodist Church West Yorkshire District
• Rabbi Amanda Golby
• Rabbi Aaron Goldstein, Northwood and Pinner Liberal Synagogue
• Rabbi Jeremy Gordon, New London Synagogue
• The Venerable Duncan Green, Archdeacon of Northolt
• Mr. Abdul Malik Haji, President, Cutchi Sunni Muslim Association – Manchester
• Rev’d Peter Hancock, Chair of the Northampton District of the Methodist Church
• Allama Mohammed Hanif, Senior Imam – Bolton
• Sue Harrington, Chaplaincy Brighton & Sussex Universities
• Robert Harrap, General Director, Soka Gakkai International-UK
• Imam Noor Hashim, Masjid Ghausia, Dewsbury
• Imam Syed Qamar Hashmi, Ghamkol Sheriff Masjid, Rochdale
• Dr. Musharraf Hussain, OBE, Director, Karimia Institute, Nottingham.
• John Hawkins, Archdeacon of Hampstead
• Imam Ghulam Mustafa Hazarvi, Jamia Masjid Ghausia, Dewsbury
• Rev’d John Hellyer, Chair of the South-East District of the Methodist Church
• Rabbi Dr Michael Hilton
• Rev’d John Howard, Former chair of the Wolverhampton and Shrewsbury District of the Methodist Church
• Rev’d Ian Howarth, Chair, Birmingham Methodist District
• Rev’d Dr Jennie Hurd, Chair, Synod Cymru, The Methodist Church
• Molana Mohammed Hussain, Al Ihya Foundation, Bolton
• Rev’d Jenny Impey, Chair of the London District of the Methodist Church
• Mohammed Imran, Imam – Darul-Uloom-Islamia, Manchester
• Andrew Jackson, Lay Anglican Chaplain, University of Sussex
• Rabbi Dr. Margaret Jacobi, Birmingham Progressive Synagogue
• Rabbi Dr Deborah Kahn-Harris, Principal, Leo Baeck College
• Rameez Kaleem, Chair & trustee of the City Circle
• Molana Mohammed Kalim, Noorul Islam Masjid, Bolton
• Tehmina Kazi, Director of British Muslims for Secular Democracy
• Moulana Mohammed Hanif Khaki, Head Imam, Gulzar-e-Madina Mosque, Leicester.
• Dr. Tahir Mahmood Kiani, Head imam, Stechford Masjid, Birmingham
• Leonie Lewis, Vice-Chair, Faiths Forum for London
• Rev’d Peter Macdonald, Leader of the Iona Community
• Imam Hafiz Amjed Mahmood, Haroonia Islamic Centre, Rochdale
• Shaykh Sajid Mahmood, Head Imam Sayyidah Aminah Jamia masjid Bradford
• Mr. Mustafa Malik, Director, Pakistan Youth and Cultural Association ( PYCA ) , Leicester.
• Rabbi Monique Mayer, Bristol & West Progressive Jewish Congregation
• Rev’d Chris McDermott, Lead Chaplain, University of Sussex
• Rev’d Peter Meek, Moderator of the East Midlands Synod, United Reformed Church
• Rev’d Loraine N Mellor, Chair of Nottingham and Derby District of the Methodist Church
• Rev’d Andrew Mills B.Sc., M.A., M.Sc., Moderator, North Western Synod of the United Reformed Church
• Molana Arshad Misbahi, Head Imam -Warrington Islamic Centre Mosque
• Qari Mohammed Ismail Misbahi, Imam -Misbahul Uloom Centre – Rochdale
• Father Gerard Mitchell, S.J., Parish Priest, St Anselm’s Church Southall and Faiths Forum for London
• Molana Mohammed Mohsin, Imam – Makkah Mosque – Bolton
• Ragih Muflihi, CEO Yemeni Community Association
• Imam Noor Muhammad, Jamia Masjid AbuBakar, Huddersfield
• Munisha, European Liaison and Communications Officer, The Triratna Buddhist Order
• Imam Muhammad Najeb, Masjid Anwar e Madinah, Huddersfield
• Imam Muhammad Ali Naqshbandi, Jamia Islamia Taleemul Quran, Sheffield
• Mohammed Naseer, Chair of Central Victoria Park Mosque, Manchester
• Rev’d Gill Newton, Chair of the Sheffield District, Methodist Church
• Rev Rachel Parkinson, Chair of the Wolverhampton and Shrewsbury District
• Imam Mohammed Arif Patel, Chair – Sunni Dawate Islami, UK – Bolton, Preston, Blackburn
• Moulana Mohammed Shakir Patel, Head Imam, Usmani Mosque, Leicester.
• Grace Pengelly, Secretary for Church and Society, The United Reformed Church
• Rev’d Dr David Pickering, Moderator, The National Synod of Scotland, United Reformed Church
• Juliet Prager, Deputy Recording Clerk, Quakers in Britain
• Rev’d Dr Andrew Prasad, Moderator of the Thames North Synod
• The Venerable Rosemary Lain-Priestley,, Associate Archdeacon of London
• Rev’d John Proctor, General Secretary, United Reformed Church
• Imam Ahmed Nisar Beg Qadri, Qadria Trust, Manchester
• Imam Mufti Akhter Qadri, Jamia Al-Furqaan, Sheffield
• Imam Sajid Ul Qadri, Jamia Masjid Ghausia Burnley
• Imam Umar Hayat Qadri, Jamia Masjid Ghausia, Huddersfield
• Moulana Farogh Ahmed Qadri, Secretary, World Islamic Mission, Scotland. Glasgow.
• Shaykh Muhamamd Dilshad Qadri, Jamia-tul-Batool, Leeds
• Imam Ghulam Rasool, Trustee Hazrat Sultan Bahu Trust UK
• Imam Ijaz Rasool, The Light of Quran, Sheffield
• Imam Qari Abdul Rauf, Ghamkol Sheriff Masjid, Rochdale
• Imam Hammad Raza, Jamia Masjid Riza, Huddersfield
• Mr. Waseem Riaz, Director, Kirklees Faith Network, Dewsbury.
• Moulana Khalid Rizvi, Moulana Khalid Rizvi
• Father Dominic Robinson (SJ), Superior Mount Street Jesuit Community
• Rabbi Sylvia Rothschild
• Imam Hafiz Mohammed Saleem, Director, Faiz-e-Raza Academy, Leicester.
• Mr. M.M. Salim, Chairman, The Leicester Central Mosque, Leicester.
• Rabbi Dr Marc Saperstein
• Imam Qari Ghulam Sarwar, Hanfia Mosque, Huddersfield
• Canon Steven Saxby, Executive Officer, London Churches Social Action
• Sayed Zaffar Ullah Shah, Hazrat Sultan Bahu Trust Birmingham
• Rabbi Irit Shillor
• Imam Muhammad Shabbir Sialvi, Golden Mosque Islamic Cultural Centre, Rochdale
• Shaykh Mohammed Shabbir Sialvi, Head Imam – Golden Mosque, Rochdale
• Imam Muhammad Din Siyalvi, Sultan Bahu Trust, Nelson
• Rabbi Larry Tabick
• Rev’d Richard Teal, Chair of the Cumbria District of the Methodist Church
• Rev’d Bruce Thompson, Chair of the Lincolnshire Methodist District of the Methodist Church
• Rev’d Graham Thompson, Chair of the Plymouth & Exeter District of the Methodist Church
• Rabbi Elli Tikvah Sarah, Brighton and Hove Progressive Synagogue
• Rev’d Simon Walkling, Moderator of the United Reformed Church National Synod of Wales
• Rev’d Stephen Wigley, Chair of the Wales Synod of the Methodist Church
• Rev’d Dr Andrew D Wood, Chair of Southampton District of the Methodist Church
• Rabbi Alexandra Wright, Senior Rabbi, The Liberal Jewish Synagogue, St John’s Wood, London
• Rabbi Debbie Young-Somers, Community Educator Movement for Reform Judaism
• Rev’d Michaela Youngson, Chair of the London District of the Methodist Church
• Mufti Mohammed Yousuf, Head Imam, Oadby Mosque, Oadby, Leicester.
• Dr. Mohammad Rashid Zia, Religious Head, Hayes & Hillingdon Islamic Society , Hayes, Middlesex.

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