Faiths & Globalisation Initiative

  The Tony Blair Faith Foundation will host its first annual “Faith & Globalisation Intensive Summer Programme,” on the topic of Religious Minorities and Human Rights, at McGill University, in Montreal, QC, from July 9-20, 2012. The summer course will explore contemporary issues, tensions and conflicts surrounding the rights of religious minorities. And, the Tony Blair Faith Foundation will arrange and cover costs for the airfare and the accommodation of 3 applicants from each university and is open to all undergraduate and graduate students from FGI partner univers

  In November, 2011, the Tony Blair Faith Foundation held several panels at the American Academy of Religion’s annual meeting in San Francisco, California. Two of these panels focused on the topics of “Religion & the Internet” and “Religious Minorities and Human Rights”. Participants from the Faith & Globalisation Network and beyond presented their research on various issues relating to these two topics.

Miss the live-stream? Watch Tony Blair and John Kerry debate religion’s place in liberal democracy The final session of Yale’s 2011 “Faith & Globalisation” course included guest lecturers Tony Blair and Senator John Kerry (D-MA). They shared their perspectives on the question – “what is religion’s proper place in a democratic government?”

Cardinal Scola, Archbishop of Milan, has sent a message of support to the Tony Blair Faith Foundation as they continue their seminar series on Faith and Globalisation in Italy. Cardinal Scola is an Italian Cardinal of the Catholic Church and philosopher and theologian. In September 2004, he founded the Oasis International Studies and Research Centre which promotes interfaith dialogue. His message reads: "I am glad to welcome Mr Tony Blair and his Foundation here in Milan to the seminar "Religion in the public sphere: secularism or laicite".