Tony Blair Faith Foundation

The favourite diplomatic activity, at least in a recent couple of cases in the capital, seems to be cricket! The last time a foreign dignitary knocked a few sixes around a field here was when the PM of New Zealand got down onto the pitch at Kotla, and now, it's Tony Blair.The former British PM was in Delhi on Wednesday, enjoying the increasingly pleasant afternoons at the residence of the British High Commissioner, Richard Stagg. Blair was here to promote inter-faith harmony among students through his Tony Blair Faith Foundation.

Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair along with cricketer Rohan Gavaskar participated in a multi-faith cricket match organised by the Tony Blair Faith Foundation to raise awareness of malaria prevention and the work it is doing in India to bring communities together against the disease.Patron of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation and former UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair and former international Indian cricketer Rohan Gavaskar were present at the function that was held in the capital at the British ambassador Richard Stagg's residence on Wednesday morning.The Tony Blair Faith Foundation in India cu

The Faith & Globalisation Initiative is growing. From next month, students at Fourah Bay College, part of the University of Sierra Leone, will study modules of the FGI for the first time ever. This is a fantastic opportunity for the students - but they need your help to make the most of it.  Right now the students urgently need books to complete their studies. Will you help today by sponsoring a book through our Fourah Bay College Amazon Wishlist? The lead professors at Fourah Bay - Dr. Leopold Foullah and Mrs.

With the latest Roll Back Malaria Report out the evidence of progress is astounding. One of the statistics that particularly stood out for me was that 485 children’s lives were saved everyday in 2010. For societies that have statistics constantly hurled at us, it is easy to pass by this figure without giving it much thought. But take a second to think about it: 485 children’s lives saved every day.

My name is Bobby Hausen and I am a graduate of Regis High School, Class of 2011. On September 9th, two days before the ten-year anniversary of 9/11, I had the opportunity to participate in an interfaith video conference with students from the United Kingdom, Lebanon, India, and the United States. In the video conference we discussed our hopes for the future of interfaith dialogue and how we hoped to one day add to intercultural harmony.

Where many a young Filipino would turn to nursing as his or her ticket to the good life, a bank executive became a nurse so she could go as a volunteer to one of the poorest and, until quite recently, most violence-wracked nations on earth. Annette Aguila, 38, left the safety of the executive suite to immerse herself in the swampy West African nation of Sierra Leone where an international campaign is under way to eradicate malaria, the killer disease. Trading her business suit for scrubs, Aguila is on a 10-month tour of duty in the Sierra Leone capital of Freetown as one of four international

Standing at Pier 40 on the Hudson River, I looked around and saw the Statue of Liberty to my right, ahead of me two ghostly beams of light shining out from Ground Zero, and to my left a crowd of nearly 800 people of all the faiths of New York City standing together. At times we stood in silence and at times we stood in prayer or song, but throughout the “World Trade Center Memorial Floating Lanterns Ceremony” on Sunday, September 11, 2011, the feeling of unity and connection in the crowd was palpable. And thanks to UNITED SIKHS, we ate together throughout the event as well.

I was very blessed not to have been directly affected by the events that took place on September 11th, 2001, and it was hard for me to understand what was really happening from across the country. When I reflect on the ten years that have gone by since that date, however, I’ve come to realise that my experience of that day was primarily due to my location, the place I lived in at the time. Now that I am in DC, I understand more of what it means to those who were affected by those awful events.

One effect of the cataclysmic events of September 11, 2001 was to make religion a bad word, a byword for evil. But that something can be put to evil use does not necessarily mean that the thing itself is evil. Nuclear power can obliterate cities; it can also generate electricity. It therefore makes more sense to consider it as a force – a natural force – neutral in itself, which can be put to good or evil use.

Montreal is an unlikely city to be a hub for all three major programmes of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation – the Faiths Act Fellowship (FAF), the Faith & Globalisation Initiative (FGI), and Face to Faith. First, it is the capital of French-speaking Canada. As in France, Quebec is deeply rooted in Catholicism but has become a decidedly secular state. Its major university, McGill, while decidedly secular in the bulk of its classes and coursework,has a diverse network of student faith groups and organisations, as well as an academic affiliation with The Montreal School of Theology.