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Religion must be part of the solution in the Middle East
Posted on Wed, 29/05/2013
When political and civic leaders seek to engage religious figures to come together to promote human dignity across sectarian lines and contribute to stability in the region, they have overwhelmingly responded with alacrity. The Amman declaration of July 2005 initiated by His Majesty King Abdullah II Ibn Al Hussein of Jordan, when 200 of the world’s leading Islamic scholars from 50 countries...
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The Great Danger for Globalised Faiths
Posted on Fri, 10/05/2013
The last few months have been punctuated, almost back-to-back, by two significant events: the election of a pontiff from the Americas and the installation of a new Archbishop of Canterbury, known for his deep commitment to Africa. They both, in different ways, pointed to the fact that the Global South holds the majority of the world’s Christian community. But they both also...
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Rise of the lone wolves — the new faces of jihad
Posted on Wed, 24/04/2013
By Ed Husain (picture above), London Evening Standard – 23 April 2013 It all looked so familiar to Londoners: CCTV images from Boston, Massachusetts, brought back memories of the July 2005 Tube bombings. They were young men in backpacks on a mission to kill and maim fellow citizens, for causes in far-away lands that they had embraced as their own. In an eerie link to sports, Londoners were...
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Unexpected encounters
Posted on Thu, 17/01/2013
Over the past semester, I have had the pleasure of taking a course entitled Religion and Globalisation, operated in affiliation with the Tony Blair Faith Foundation. The class has been unbelievably ambitious in its scope, tackling everything from a brief history of Hinduism, the “Western Gaze,” the history of Christianity in Ancient Rome, the rise of militant Islam, the essentials of...
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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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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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