Monday, November 25, 2013

16. From Prime minister to minister. Tony Blair-s faith project.



                Ex-prime minister of England Tony Blair spends his time into a NGO called the Tony Blair Faith Foundation (TBFF). They have the aim to prevent, “religious prejudice and conflict and extremism working with people of faith and none…”  When a prime minister in England, even though being passionately religious, he did not express it in public with fear of being considered a nutter. Religion is a force for knowledge and mutual understanding instead of “benighted ignorance”. One of TBFF’s main projects is in Sierra Leone were the principle that in the world’s poorest places, were capitals religion is “indispensable”, is being tested.  Blair is trying to educate and inform basic knowledge to poor people in poor countries, threw religion.
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http://www.economist.com/blogs/erasmus/2013/11/tony-blairs-faith-projects 

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