Tony Blair Faith Foundation

Tony Blair Faith Foundation Chief Executive Charlotte Keenan will take part in a Live Chat with the renowned Guardian newspaper on faith and development. The discussion, “Faith-based organisations and development: from suspicion to collaboration,” will examine the challenges but also the tremendous potential of working with faith communities and assess the role these communities play in development and humanitarian assistance. Our innovative work in Sierra Leone training a small number of faith leaders in malaria prevention should provide a fascinating case study. The chat

As part of our commemoration of U.N. Interfaith Harmony week, we asked our Face to Faith students to write a blog about their "Friend of a different faith or belief," reflecting upon what they had learned from that relationship, about the other person and themselves. Two hundred and thirty students from seven countries across the world wrote, filmed or recorded a blog for this competition, and the best were selected by Huffington Post Senior Religion Editor, Rev.

Tony Blair, Abdul-Fatah Adeshina of JNI and Charlotte Keenan, CEO of TBFF Former UK Prime Minister and Founder of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, Tony Blair, has visited Lagos, Nigeria to attend the inauguration and opening of the Rock Cathedral and Metropolitan Church of Christ in Lagos as a centre for Social Justice and National Transformation, also attended by President Goodluck Jonathan. During his visit, he also met with the Archbishop of Lagos, Alfred Adewale Martins, and Jamatul Nasril Islam representative Abdul-Fatah Adeshina, to discuss the work his Faith Foundation is doing in Nig

Speaking on the 15th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, Tony Blair said: “Fifteen years ago, when I came to Stormont, there was little expectation of a deal being done. The peace process was in turmoil. But because of the will of the people in Northern Ireland, that historic Good Friday signalled the start of a peaceful future. “Now as I travel to different parts of the world, what happened in Northern Ireland is something that immediately connects with people.

The feast of the resurrection is not just a feast that focuses on consumerism and gift giving. It is of course a time for us to share and enjoy and to share that joy with our families and communities. But it is also a time to focus on what it actually means; the feast of the resurrection is about reconciliation. It’s about victory and it’s about hope, it’s about the things we lack so much in our world today, in so many parts of our world.

Our global schools programme,Face to Faith, hosted video-conferences with special guest speakers in honour of United Nations International Day of Peace to encourage schools to start thinking about what they will do for Peace Day 2013.

To mark International Women's Day, which honours women and their unique role in the world, the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, in collaboration with the Washington Post On Faith, is running a new series entitled Is religion good for women?

AMMAN — Students from over 10 schools across the country on Tuesday reflected on their experience in exchanging views with their counterparts from around the world to promote interfaith tolerance and change stereotypes of Islam. Some 380 Muslim and Christian students from around Jordan met at the Islamic Scientific College at an event organised by the Tony Blair Faith Foundation as part of its “Face to Faith” global schools programme to mark World Interfaith Harmony Week. “Face to Faith” seeks to build understanding between 12-17 year olds from across the world