A SENIOR Buddhist nun has organised an event to encourage women from different faiths and countries to talk to each other.

Venerable Tenzin Choesang, along with the Herefordshire Interfaith Group, is launching a Faith 2 Faith Women 2 Women’s project on March 5 to celebrate International Women’s Day.

Venerable Choesang, a nun within the Tibetan tradition who lives in Herefordshire, said the intention is to provide a platform for a better understanding of different cultures in order to enable women of diverse faiths to help, support, guide and encourage other women.

She said: "It is totally out of friendship and love and compassion- there is no political slant whatsoever."

Venerable Choesang would particularly like to invite women from around the world who have made their homes in Herefordshire.

She said: "Through these links we plan to make contact with their relatives and friends left behind in their home countries, in order that we may start to understand their cultures and what forms the basis of their understanding of faith, spirituality and friendships.

"It is envisaged that in this way a web will spread out to many cultures throughout the world where we, in the main, have little understanding, such as Afghanistan and Syria regarding Islam and Baha’i faiths, across Eastern Europe and into Bulgaria, pockets across the Himalayas regarding different forms of Buddhism and into Myanmar."

On March 5 at the Kindle Centre, next to Asda in Hereford, from 9.30am to 4.30pm there will be a relaxed day of sharing food and interests and making cards and gifts to send abroad. Women only.

For more details email june@the-hermit-online.co.uk. Or call Neville Meredith on 01432 383628 or email nmeredith@herefordshire.gov.uk