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Hauwa Ibrahim: Is Religion Good for Women?
Posted on Tue, 19/03/2013
In my work as a lawyer in courts, especially in the Shariah courts, I have increasingly found that women’s issues, though linked directly to local communities, cultural practices and religion, have a parallel with global issues, especially, global foreign polices which impact women directly. Spiritually is part of human make up, which at times people call religion. Religion has often been...
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Professor Samina Yasmeen: Is Religion Good for Women?
Posted on Tue, 05/03/2013
The predominance of male dominated interpretations of canonical texts has often caused analysts and others to proclaim the inherently dangerous relationship between religion and women. The abundance of stories (some factual and others fictional) that focus on the unequal status of Muslim women’s experiences tends to reaffirm such assessments about the dangers inherent in women identifying...
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Reverend Elizabeth Hallowell: Is Religion Good for Women?
Posted on Tue, 05/03/2013
I am Reverend Elizabeth the manager for Tonkolili UMC Schools, in Magburaka, and pastor in charge of St. Mathews United Methodist church. I started experiencing Christ in my life after the death of my husband. But I converted in 1990, and in 1993 I lost my husband. Twenty years I had been struggling. I went to the college I studied theology and in 2000 I went also to study theology. I also...
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Going Global: the Faith and Globalisation Initiative in China, India and the USA.
Posted on Tue, 15/01/2013
As many of our partner universities return to a new semester in January, and new groups of students begin their coursework, I thought I would take a moment to reflect on how truly global the Faith and Globalisation Initiative has become. Last month alone saw major activities in China, the USA and, in a major new development for the programme, India. At the beginning of the month, Tony...
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Religion & Conflict: An Introduction to the Series
Posted on Fri, 16/11/2012
The Tony Blair Faith Foundation Religion & Conflict blog series tackles a theme that is contested at a number of levels. On the one side, there is the constant refrain that the real cause of a particular conflict is not religion. On the other, the impression, reinforced by the mass media, that religion is today the number one vector of a virus of hatred around the world. So the first pre-...
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What happened in Norway?
Posted on Tue, 06/11/2012
On the 22nd of July 2011, my family and I were driving from the east coast of Norway to Oslo. We happened to stop by a road café to have some food, when one of our daughters got a message on the phone. There is a bomb blast in Oslo – and not much later – there is someone killing young people at a Labour party youth camp at Utøya. This, to us and to most Norwegians, was...
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You gotta have faith!!
Posted on Fri, 12/10/2012
Think of Sierra Leone and images of the Hollywood blockbuster 'Blood Diamond' come to mind - a film that, beneath its glamour, shows a country torn apart by the struggle between government soldiers and rebel forces. Coupled with the ferocious and desolate account of one of the many children who were turned into professional killers, you can see why people have a certain view of the...
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Health-Care in Africa: Who Gets the Money?
Posted on Mon, 10/09/2012
"Proselytism, contraception, gender, abortion, homosexuality". Go to most of the great multi-lateral agencies, the people with the money, to discuss faith communities' role in global health, and this probably forms the main conversation. Perhaps as the door is shutting, the World Health Organisation's estimate that throughout sub-Saharan Africa an average of 40% of the health...
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Faiths Act in Sierra Leone: Phase Two
Posted on Fri, 24/08/2012
Despite heavy rain, phase two of Faiths Act in Sierra Leone has started its next phase of training religious leaders to reach out and equip people in their local communities with life-saving information about malaria prevention. The excitement built up as we starting receiving recommendations from the Inter Religious Council of Sierra Leone and religious leaders about those who should be trained...
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Bridges built in Face to Faith
Posted on Thu, 20/09/2012
Quinn Rollins writing for the Utah Council for the Social Studies who observed a special Face to Faith videoconference on September 12th at Brighton High School in Utah said of the event, "you could see the bridge being built before our eyes" between the two partner schools. Students from Xavier School in Manila, Philippines shared stories with Brighton students about helping out in the...
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My Experience in Face to Faith | Grant
Posted on Sat, 01/09/2012
This year, I was presented with an amazing opportunity to learn about different faiths and cultures by having video conferences with other schools around the world. This opportunity came in the form of Tony Blair Faith Foundation’s Face to Faith program, in which adolescents throughout the world can video conference with their peers in different schools worldwide. I got the chance to video...
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A Priest's response to the Sikh shooting
Posted on Sat, 01/09/2012
On Sunday morning August 5th, a 40 year old man walked into a Sikh Temple with a gun and shot six members of the community, wounded 3 others and terrified a whole community. Mourners from around the world have come to support the Sikh community in Oak Creek Wisconsin. The outpour of love and support offered to the friends and family of the victims has been inspiring. It is hard to...
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