Tony Blair Faith Foundation

It was in May last year that I first met a group of 30 young people who have been a source of learning and inspiration to me ever since. Back at that first meeting I was blown away by their passion, their deeply held faith balanced with their openness to difference.These 30 Faiths Act Fellows went on to lead an interfaith movement across 15 cities across three countries and gain grassroots experience of how we encourage peaceful co-operation in a globalised world. It was a pleasure watching them transform into exceptional young leaders as the year went on.

26th May 2010, roughly around 3pm GMT, the African heat hit me.

The Tony Blair Faith Foundation have announced that Wheaton College, Illinois, USA has become the first American Associate University of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation’s Faith and Globalization Initiative (FGI).  The Foundation also announced that the Higher Colleges of Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates have become the Associate University partners in the Faith and Globalization Initiative in the Middle East. The Faith and Globalization Initiative is driven forward by a network of Lead Universities on every continent which undertake academic teaching and research to devel

Have you ever been able to work with people of different faiths in Brazil? Somalia? The Democratic Republic of Congo?

Hanukkah marks a military victory over the oppressive Seleucid empire. Yet for the Rabbis of the Talmud the essence of the celebration was not the victory, but the miracle of the menorah. Although there was only enough oil to burn for one day, according to the Talmud, the oil miraculously lasted for eight days.

When the world allows those living with AIDS to live in pain, it is a violation of human rights.  This is one of the many insights that came out of a panel that the McGill chapter of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation organized earlier in the month. The panel centered on the moral, ethical, and religious ialogue around the HIV/AIDS epidemic in developing countries.