Tony Blair Faith Foundation

On 26 March, 2012, twenty selected students from Manggahan High School Pasig went on a videoconference to dialogue with students from St.

Watch what happened when Faiths Act Fellows at Malaria No More UK Charlotte and Usman brought together representatives from seven different faith traditions to share a low budget lunch. How much change can you make from £1?  That’s the question we’re encouraging faith communities to reflect on.  Congregations, interfaith groups and individuals of faith are being challenged to live on just £1 of food and drink per day for 5 days to raise funds and awareness of the 1.4 billion people around the world who live below the extreme poverty line every day. To high

Our Faith and Globalisation Initiative ran a competition with its students around International Women’s Day. The competition asked students to write a short piece spotlighting their female faith hero- someone who is making a difference in the world. The winner of the competition is Lumi Velázquez a student from Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey.

When the four fellows were told we would be visited Tony Blair at Sierra Leone's Faith Act office, we were all very excited and pleased that we would be able to share with him the successes of the community action against malaria, spearheaded by our dynamic faith leaders and their congregations.

New Delhi: The Tony Blair Faith Foundation Wednesday launched a programme here for raising awareness about malaria. The Where`s The Net programme features a mosquito net which is considered the cheapest protection against malaria. The net has been to 26 countries before coming to India. "In India, the net will travel to 15 locations which are considered high risk for malaria.

This week millions of people from around the world have come together to raise awareness about Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army. Having worked on this issue for a number of years, I would like to devote my blog to a brave, beautiful and bright young woman named Evaline Apoko who as child was abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army but who was always cocooned by her faith. Evaline Apoko is 19 years old and is from northern Uganda. Growing up in a time of political instability and conflict, Evaline is no stranger to tragedy.

Some 3% of the world’s population today have migrated from their country of origin: a small percentage, but an awful lot of people, 214 million.  In 1968 I used to be one of them, living in a small apartment under the Triborough Bridge on Long Island, and under a large extended family from the Dominican Republic who slept in shifts.  We both only arrived two years earlier.  And we both were figuring out how to be American by watching TV.

Justin Cohen, News Editor at Jewish News writes on the upcoming Jewish Living Expo. Lord Coe has hailed London’s diversity as key to its triumphant Olympic bid. As a cultural and business hotspot, with a proud record of welcoming those fleeing persecution, it’s little wonder the city has become a melting pot, reverberating to the sound of more than 200 languages.

Being a Muslim woman educated in a convent school in a country (India) that was predominantly Hindu made the experience of identifying a Female Faith Hero really challenging.

To mark International Women’s Day, the Face to Faith programme ran a series of special multi-point videoconferences, bringing together young people from 14 different schools and 6 different countries with special guest speakers to inspire them. On the 0300 Videoconference, students from Australia and India were joined by Eric Farr who works for the Faiths Act for Mothers Campaign.  It is odd for some to hear it put this way, but he mentioned the fact that for some women becoming pregnant is almost a "death sentence," because of the lack of maternal care.  He then men