‘Our duty is to bring people together’: interfaith St George’s Day events seek to counter hatred

This year’s interfaith walk in London brought together people from Christian, Jewish and Muslim communities in the capital. Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian

Maurice Ostro, founder patron of the Faiths Forum for London, has been engaged in interfaith work for decades. For much of that time, he said, he was teased by good-natured people who insisted there was little need for it in the UK.

“People used to laugh at me for doing this work,” he said, but now, amid record-breaking incidents of antisemitism and anti-Muslim hatred, the jokes have stopped.