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04.08.10
Capturing Film On Faith - CNN
CNN's Richard Allen Greene interviews Tony Blair and some of the young winners from the Faith Shorts film competition.
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17.07.10
The Indian Express introduces some of the shortlisted entries in the Faith Shorts film competition
Six Indian entries have been nominated for the inaugural Faith Shorts Film competition. The winning films will be announced this Thursday at a special event at the British Acadamy of Film and Television Arts. They are generating lots of excitement in India and the Indian Express has been speaking to some of the entrants about what inspired them to express their faith through film and how they are feeling about making the shortlist.
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27.04.10
Eboo Patel writes about the Fellows World Malaria Day campaign for Washington Post’s On Faith
Sunday was World Malaria Day, which commemorates the global effort to provide effective control of malaria around the world. Folks across the globe brought attention to this disease which, though it is treatable and preventable, kills 1 million people every year.
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22.04.10
Tony Blair writes guest column for the Financial Times: Faith can help heal bodies as well as souls
Two months ago I joined Nigerian ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo and a number of the country’s religious leaders in Kuje, a township outside Abuja to promote a multi-faith programme to train 300,000 Nigerian religious leaders in malaria prevention. The idea is simple but potentially very effective. Most communities in Africa do not have hospitals or clinics, but all have a church or mosque.
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12.04.10
Baking for bednets to combat Malaria in Africa
Twenty kilograms of flour. Eight kilograms of sugar. Two large bags of oats. Six dozens of eggs and 10 pounds of butter. During a 12-hour baking marathon in Toronto Saturday, six young women from different faith backgrounds kneaded, battered, sifted and crimped these ingredients not only to churn out tasty pastries for those fallen on hard luck in homeless shelters but also raise money for health care and education in Africa.Brownies for Bednets is an initiative by Torontonian Hilary Keachie, a member of The Faiths Act Fellowship, a program launched by the Tony Blair Faith Foundation and the Interfaith Youth Core to foster interfaith cooperation and social action
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06.04.10
Short film contest to bridge the divide - Gulf Times
Former British prime minister Tony Blair has announced the launch of a global short film competition, with the aim of promoting inter-faith dialogue.In an exclusive interview with Gulf Times yesterday, Blair said that the aim of the initiative was to bring young people of different faiths together and allow them to present a positive picture of their religion to the rest of the world. The competition will accept entries in eight languages from people under the age of 25 of all faiths from the world over. Blair argued that it would provide a chance for young Muslims, in particular, to illustrate their religion in a manner different to what is often portrayed in the media and popular culture.
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10.03.10
Tony Blair Delighted to See Hindu Youth Undertake one Week of Selfless Service
‘Sewa’ which translates to ‘selfless service’ is an integral part of Hindu dharma (path of righteousness). For this reason, National Hindu Students Forum (UK) [NHSF] provides a platform for Hindu students to undertake regular sewa. Although this could just be a charitable donation, it goes way beyond this. Sewa lies not in the action, but the state of mind that precedes it.
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08.01.10
Understanding other religions is key to peace, Tony Blair tells Dubai - The National
DUBAI // An understanding of other religions may hold the key to peaceful global coexistence, the former British prime minister Tony Blair said yesterday during a visit to the Winchester School in Dubai.
“If we only understood each other a little better it might be easier to get along with each other,” he said during an event last night held in his honour. “Ignorance breeds fear and fear breeds conflict.”
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23.11.09
Faith in Action - The Washington Post/ On Faith
As Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams occupies a unique position in the religious world, with the potential to bridge religious and secular. As leader of Britain's established religion, he engages constantly with political leaders. So the title of his recent speech in London jumped out at me: "Relating Intelligently to Religion". Heaven knows, surely that's what we need.
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21.06.10
UWA joins former British PM’s research project - ABC Perth
The former British Prime Minister Tony Blair says the University of Western Australia is an ideal choice to join a research project on religion and globalisation. Mr Blair's Faith Foundation has recruited about a dozen universities worldwide to look into the role that religion plays in world affairs.
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22.01.10
The Innovators - Annika Small
Annika Small clearly relishes the challenge offered by guiding nascent organisations in their development. Having taken Futurelab through its independence from NESTA to become an institution with a worldwide reputation for innovative research into education and the use of technology, she is now with The Tony Blair Faith Foundation (TTBF) as its director of education.
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12.01.10
McGill joins Tony Blair Faith Foundation - McGIll tribune reports
Last month, McGill University became an official partner of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation and a committed member to the foundation's Faith and Globalization Initiative.
Founded in 2008 by former British prime minister Tony Blair, the foundation seeks to cultivate respect and cooperation among the world's major religions, as well as to work with religious groups on development projects and education programs.
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09.12.09
Spiritual greatness is grounded in humility - Pritpal Kaur reporting for The Times
The fifth Council for a Parliament of the World’s religions has allowed us to encounter real spiritual greatness. It happened in a seminar entitled ‘Religious Leadership in a globalised world’ led by the Elijah Board of the World’s Religious Leaders. The topic of religious leadership is being increasingly aired – the Chicago-based Interfaith Youth Core hosted a conference in October 2009, on ‘Leadership for a religiously diverse world.’ And the Elijah Board has held one in Haifa.
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09.12.09
Our relationship with the poor is not about charity- Jem Jebbia reporting for The Times
Sometimes it’s hard as a Buddhist to engage my own community in social action. Many would say it is against their theology to be active at all, especially in politically charged affairs. But I learned yesterday why Buddhists should not only be involved in social action, but should be at the forefront.
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07.12.09
You can find faith in very unexpected places… Sean Rose reporting for The Times
Up early on Sunday. Adrenalin still running. A Catholic Mass in the Ukrainian (or Byzantine) Rite was happening somewhere in town. I arrived a few minutes late to find people still waiting outside the Church: about a dozen, mostly men, mostly much older than me. For an early Summer’s morning it was surprisingly cold. We started to get impatient. The priest must have overslept. I began to wish I had done the same and found somewhere to attend Mass later in the day.
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07.12.09
Pupils linking up to tackle world issues - The Bolton News
Issues affecting the world today are being discussed by “young ambassadors” across the world. Every six weeks, children from Westhoughton High School speak to their counterparts from across the globe via video link to discuss issues normally tackled by the world leaders of the G8 — poverty, human trafficking and conflict, together with religion and culture.
Since the launch of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation’s new Face to Faith programme in June, teenagers say that barriers are already being broken down and ignorance is being replaced with respect and understanding. Elliott Grainger, aged 13, said: “Through the programme we are understanding different cultures and faith a lot more from people our own age.”
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06.12.09
McGill, Tony Blair join forces - McGill Reporter
and the fourth in the world - to partner with the Tony Blair Faith Foundation’s Faith and Globalization Initiative. Blair, the former British Prime Minister, made the announcement on Thrusday along with Ellen Aitken, McGill’s Dean of the Faculty of Religious Studies in a live video press conference from Yale University. The initiative is a global network of universities committed to exploring the complex interrelationship of faith and globalization in the modern world.
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06.12.09
The opening night of the congress- Pritpal Kaur reprts for The Times
A warm Saturday evening and thousands of people are crowding into the atrium of the Melbourne Convention Centre. We are waiting to get into the auditorium for the second plenary of the Parliament about the international context of the interfaith movement.
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05.12.09
Faith in Parliament - Pritpal Kaur’s biography for the Times
I am a 26 year-old Sikh from Leeds, working with Sean Rose at the Nishkam Civic Association. I attended the Fourth Parliament of the World's Religions in Barcelona in 2004 and was overwhelmed by the contribution of the Sikh volunteers from Guru Nanak Nishkam Sewak Jatha. We` managed to provide Langar (blessed vegetarian food) to 7000 participants every day of the gathering.
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04.12.09
A parliament for all faiths - Faiths Act Fellows Reporting for the Times
Pritpal Kaur, 26, Sean Rose, 21 and Jem Jebbia, 21, are in Australia this week for the World Parliament of Religions. Fellows of the International Faith Acts programme of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, they are joining up to 8,000 representatives of the world's faiths all meeting in Melbourne this week to discuss the most pressing issues of the age. Priorities for the parliament include global poverty, environmental change, youth education, spirituality and the arts and reconciliation among indigenous peoples.
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