Tony Blair Faith Foundation

The University of Western Australia has become the first Australian University and the fifth in the world to partner with the Tony Blair Faith Foundation Faith and Globalisation Initiative. The Initiative is a global network of universities committed to exploring the complex interrelationship of faith and globalisation in the modern world.

The inaugural Faiths Act Fellowship has been a huge success. The 30 Faiths Act Fellows from the UK, USA and Canada have been building multi-faith relationships for the past 8 months by encouraging different faith communities to work together to raise funds and awareness to tackle malaria and other global issues.

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The face to faith program is connecting people of different faiths across the globe via secure video conferencing and online community. This program is using modern ways of communication to create one world irrespective of all religions. FACE TO FAITH PROGRAM has provided a whole new meaning to my life, whether it be participating in the video conferencing or chatting in the online face to faithcommunity. I learnt about social, cultural and religious practices of different people around the globe.

The two flip camera categories are now closed and we have been delighted by the creative and inspirational stories that have come in from around the world. We have shortlisted young people from Pakistan, India, Singapore, UK, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt and Nigeria. There are still two weeks left for young filmmakers between the ages of 18 and 25 to enter the competition.

Thanks to everyone who made World Malaria Day on Sunday such a success. It was amazing to see so many people of faith taking action in their communities, all over the world, to eradicate a disease that kills nearly 1 million people a year. We marked World Malaria Day here in London with a Night Under Nets event, where some of the Faiths Act Fellows made a short video called "Malaria Wipeout." Watch it here - then share it with your friends: http://www.tonyblairfaithfoundation.org/MalariaWipeout This World Malaria Day was truly an event that spanned the globe.

To mark World Malaria Day, Sunday, April 25, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams [a Co-President of the Religions for Peace World Council] , has for the first time recorded a message to demonstrate his support and to urge others to unite in the fight against malaria. Malaria, Williams says, is a massive yet solvable problem taking the lives of close to one million people every year, mainly women and children in Africa.

“In Britain we are engaged in a process of learning how to construct and live in a society made up of different faiths”. This is how Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Westminster begins his foreword to a significant teaching document from the Catholic bishops of England and Wales on inter-religious dialogue published today. But it is, of course, not only Britain. The same could be said for almost all countries in a time of globalisation and migration. For this reason Meeting God in Friend and Stranger needs to reach a wider readership than just British Catholics.

In a church draped with bed nets over 250 people from every faith, age and background came together to take action to help prevent a million lives lost to malaria each year by donating money, starring in an educational film and raising awareness about malaria online. Aqsa Mohammed a Faiths Act volunteer from Surrey expressed the sense of excitement generated by the evening, "It was inspiring and encouraging to see so many people from all walks of life, young and old from all faiths together in a church making a real difference to those suffering from malaria.

The Chicago Council released its task force report, Engaging Religious Communities Abroad: A New Imperative for U.S. Foreign Policy, on February 23, 2010, in Washington D.C.