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OneJAIN Launches Manifesto for 2024 UK General Election

OneJAIN, the collaboration of all 35 UK Jain organisation, led by the Institute of Jainology has today launched its 2024 election manifesto (Download Manifesto). This is the third general election for which there has been a OneJAIN manifesto.  The manifesto covers six key areas: Representation Jains are a well-integrated British Indian community, and should be[…]

Message from Gareth Thomas MP

  Message to the Jain Community from Gareth Thomas MP I am writing to you following the celebration of Lord Mahavir’s birth anniversary. I hope that you were blessed to be able to spend time with loved ones on this most auspicious of days, even if that was via ‘Zoom’ or ‘Skype’ or “old style”[…]

Planting for Peace: Ahimsa Peace Forest & Peace Garden

  This year is 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi and it is being commemorated by several Indian communities in the UK during this year by holding a variety of programs and events.  OneJAIN, the union of UK Jain communities are proud to announce a ‘Planting for Peace’ flagship tree-planting project to celebrate the life of[…]

Three New Academic Chairs for Indic Religions at the University of California

BUENA PARK, Calif. — A historical celebration of the establishment of three endowed chairs– Shri Parshvanath Presidential Chair in Jain Studies, Dhan Kaur Sahota Presidential Chair in Sikh Studies and Swami Vivekananda-DCF (Dharma Civilization Foundation) Presidential Chair in Modern India Studies – in the School of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine was held[…]

Prayers at London Peace Pagoda

Members of the IoJ Education Team attended the 29th Anniversary celebration of the London Peace Pagoda in Battersea Park on Saturday, 21t June.  A prayer ceremony is held each year and IoJ has had the pleasure of representing Jainism. Many faith organisations were represented and after a ceremonial start, each faith recited their prayer for[…]

Samani Charitra Prajna visited Center for Jaina Studies of Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Samani Charitra Prajna, Vice Chancellor of JVBU Ladnun, and Samani Aagam Prajna visited Berlin Center for Jaina Studies (CfJS) after their participation at a conference on interreligious dialogue, which occurred on May 7th, 2014  at St. Ottilien near Munich. At the University of Applied Sciences,  a seminar on Jainism was  held this semester by Patrick[…]

Cause for the UK Jain Community to be Proud

BBC Radio journalist and presenter Ritula Shah,a member of the Jain community has won this years GG2 Media & Creative Arts Award. She was presented with the award at a ceremony in London on November 27th. The GG2 awards are now in their 15th year and are organised by the Asian Media and Marketing Group, the publishers of Garavi Gujarat.[…]