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Launch event for No Enemy To Conquer in Melbourne, Australia (Photo: Rahul Kapadia)
MICHAEL HENDERSON is a freelance journalist and the author of eleven books, including No Enemy To Conquer - Forgiveness in An Unforgiving World and See You After the Duration - the Story of British Evacuees to North America in World War II. He has been a TV presenter, a broadcaster and for more than fifty years worked for peace and understanding in some 25 countries. Read more >>
UPCOMING EVENT
Acceptances for the above are needed by 5 August.
The Cordoba Foundation and St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace cordially invite you to Cordoba Seminars Ramadan special on Tuesday 17 August 2010 at 6.15 pm.
Michael Henderson will be the guest speaker on: No Enemy to Conquer: Building peace in an age of conflict. This will be followed by breaking of the fast - Iftar.
The venue will be St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace, 78 Bishopsgate, London EC2N 4AG. RSVP here or telephone 02089913370 / 02089913372 by 5 August.
Ice in Every Carriage
Michael Henderson's latest book is now available. You can read the foreword by Rajmohan Gandhi here.
Recent book
Latest News
The Times' website, under its faith section, reports on the latest launch of Michael Henderson's book 'No Enemy to Conquer' at a Greencoat Forum in the London centre of Initiatives of Change. Under the headline 'Forgiveness is the key to bringing peace in Northern Ireland', Cheryl Gallagher reports Henderson's emphasis that 'forgiveness far from being just a personal or religious matter can affect the life of nations'. Click here to read the article.
TIKKUN, one of the leading Jewish magazines in the United States has a review by Roger S. Gottlieb (writing about No Enemy to Conquer): "changes are possible for us as human beings and have many times, against all expectation, actually occurred." To read the article click here.
An interview with Michael Henderson was published in The Jewish Week, widely recognized as the largest and most respected Jewish newspaper in America, on 15 September to mark Rosh Hashanah. "In No Enemy to Conquer: Forgiveness in an Unforgiving World, British journalist Michael Henderson argues that apologizing and forgiving have a value on both a personal and political plane. The Jewish Week spoke last week to Henderson about the issue." Click here to read the article.
The Invitation: In the UK Islamic Community Magazine, Imam Dr Musharraf Hussain, a joint Chairman of the Christian-Muslim Forum of Britain writes "'This book represents a tour de force between victims and offenders and soul-stirring tales of human goodness." Read more here.
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