by Sean Reilly | Jul 17, 2008
The scale of the challenge and the glimmer of new possibilities in interreligious understnading is on display at the 16-18 July international interfaith conference convened in Madrid by the Muslim World League. The meeting follows an initiative by Saudi Arabia’s...
by Sean Reilly | May 30, 2008
Tony Blair will today launch his long awaited Faith Foundation in New York, saying that he wants religion to be seen as a force for good in the world. The new organisation, for which he is seeking hundreds of millions of pounds of charitable funding, will focus on...
by Sean Reilly | Apr 22, 2008
The Times columnist Matthew Parris recently gave former Prime Minister Tony Blair a “fail” for his lecture on religion at Westminster Cathedral. Mr Parris, like a lot of the ‘new atheists’, believes that there is no such thing as progressive faith; for the...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 14, 2008
Members of different faith communities will gather in Friends House in central London on Saturday to discuss The Iraq War and Occupation: Ethics and Values with leading lawyer Phil Shiner, who has helped uncover atrocities committed by coalition forces, and Mazin...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 14, 2008
Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, has accepted a one-year position at Yale University in which he will participate in a course examining issues related to religious faith and globalisation – writes Chris Herlinger from New York. Blair will serve as...
