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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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Global Institutions of Religion: Ancient Movers, Modern Shakers
Posted on Wed, 10/04/2013
Faith and globalisation are two of the world's most powerful contemporary forces; the dynamics and contours of religion form today an integral part of international relations. Yet how much do we understand about how religions work as global institutions? Katherine Marshall, a senior fellow at Georgetown’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs, in her recent book Global...
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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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Religion & secularism in a global age
Posted on Mon, 04/03/2013
Director of Policy at the Tony Blair Faith Foundation Ian Linden and Ambassador Nigel Baker. Credit: British Embassy to the Holy See Benedict XVI has stepped down. We await the election of his successor. But life and business at the Holy See, at least for this Embassy, go on – almost as usual. On 1 March, St David’s day, I attended and chaired the afternoon session of a one day...
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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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Nigeria's future depends on how its religious groups see each other
Posted on Mon, 03/12/2012
The development of Nigeria with its population of some 150 million people, oil reserves, and an abundance of entrepreneurial spirit, is arguably critical for the future of sub-Saharan Africa. It has had more than its fair share of misfortunes: civil war, serial military coups, tyrannical military government, spectacular corruption and all the downsides of its black gold economy. But today...
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The role of religion in public services
Posted on Wed, 24/10/2012
Far right, Monica Duffy Toft at a recent Tony Blair Faith Foundation event. Several years ago while I was teaching a course, Religion and Global Politics, at Harvard University’s Kennedy School, a student asked me why my co-instructor, Professor Bryan Hehir, always wore the same thing: a black suit and collar. I explained that Professor Hehir was also Father Hehir, an ordained Catholic...
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Rural reach of malaria work in Sierra Leone
Posted on Wed, 17/10/2012
When one thinks of the phrases ‘rural’ or ‘hard to reach’areas, it is easy to relate such phrases to the provincial areas, known for its usually agronomic inhabitants, such as Pujehun, Kialahun, Bonthe and Kono. But it is surprisingly easy to find extremely hard to reach areas right here in Freetown, which has a population of over a million people. Over the past couple of...
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Face to Faith students make a difference for their global neighbours
Posted on Tue, 22/01/2013
Students at Hollins School in the United Kingdom worked for a month to put together an Ethical Enterprise Day where students learned about global issues and worked in groups to come up with a stall that raised awareness of ethical issues affecting people around the globe. Students then invited the rest of the school to a day where they visited their stalls to buy their goods or play their games...
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Face to Faith Pakistani coordinator responds to the violence against Malala Yousufzai.
Posted on Wed, 31/10/2012
On the sad occasion of the attack on brave daughter of Pakistan Malala Yousufzai, I would like to salute the students of Face to Faith Peshawar, Pakistan who participated on International Peace Day. This school is also in North of Pakistan. I pray for the safety of these Malalas. Hats off to brave teachers of this school. Last month thousands of students from Peshawar, Northern Pakistan and...
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Grandparents - The Solution Not the Problem
Posted on Mon, 01/10/2012
“Today is United Nations Older Person's Day. 'The family', a receptacle for both motherhood and apple pie, is a term that prospers from vagueness. It invariably gets a good press from religious leaders and politicians - a less good one from psychiatrists and anthropologists. Only the latter two will risk defining it too closely. Today's default position...
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