August Meeting of Experts in Florence, Italy Posted September 8, 2014 On August 19 to 21, 2014, the 16th IRLA Meeting of Experts convened at the beautiful Italian college, Villa Aurora, in Florence, Italy. Sandwell - First Fesitival of Religious Freedom in the UK: "We Love Religious Freedom!" Posted August 25, 2014 A site of 400 years of religious and political turmoil was a fitting location for the first Religious Liberty Festival to be organised in the British Isles on Sabbath, 16 August.