We don’t live in an age of secularity, we live in an age of explosive, pervasive religiosity.
In countries where the average annual income is less than $2000 92% of residents say religion is an important part of their daily life. Where average annual income is over $25,000 only 44% of residents say religion is an important part of their daily life.
You cannot understand the modern world unless you understand the importance of religious faith. Faith motivates, galvanises, organises and integrates millions upon millions of people.
The Faith and Globalisation Initiative is an international network of leading universities exploring the relationship between faith and globalisation and highlighting the implications to the wider world. Read More.
PICTURE (Priests’ ICT Use in their Religious Experience) has studied the usages of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), and of the internet in particular, by the priests of the Catholic Church all over the world.… Read more.
I’ve been to a number of youth conferences before, but few were as fascinating and relevant as the Faith and Globalisation Student Conference: it was a real eye-opener. Given the complexity and seriousness of the… Read more.
I’ll be honest, I’m not really sure what to expect from the conference tomorrow. Being a practicing Muslim, the notion of faith has always intrigued me, more so after coming to Yale. It might not… Read more.
In a traditional Chinese courtyard, surrounded by bamboo plants, the partnership between Peking University and the Tony Blair Faith Foundation was signed today by Tony Blair, PKU's Executive Vice President Prof Lin Jianhau, and myself. Read more.
Just weeks after the University of Western Australia announced their partnership with the foundation Tecnológico de Monterrey have become the first Latin American university – and the fifth in the world – to partner with… Read more.
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… Read more.
Sub Saharan Africa is home to over 470 million Christians and 234 million Muslims, the Pew Research centre has undertaken a groundbreaking research project across 60 languages and 19 countries to explore the belief systems… Read more.
On the 8-9th September, the Foundation co-hosted a ground breaking conference on faith and malaria with Yale University which was sponsored by KPMG. Other partner organisations included the Centre for Interfaith Action on Global Poverty… Read more.
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