Posts Tagged ‘Faith’
by The Library of Congress The Tony Blair Faith Foundation is looking for young budding filmmakers to enter its annual Faith Shorts film competition. Anyone between the ages of 14 and 27 can submit a short film showing how faith impacts their life and the lives of those around them. Entries will be judged [...]
by North Carolina State Archives Paulo Reyes is one of the winners of Faith Shorts. The global competition is run annually by the Tony Blair Faith Foundation and gives 14 to 18-year-olds the opportunity to express what their faith means to them through a three-minute film. It’s a chance for people of faith to [...]
by Riksarkivet (National Archives of Norway) Human rights politics can get difficult when individual identity and allegiance to a sub-group becomes the centre of the discussion. This is even more true when the politics of aid relates to the party political narrative in the donor country. Often such positions can hurt the very people [...]
by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums David Cameron has called on faith groups to play a part in transforming society and mending broken Britain. Writing in the latest edition of Keep the Faith magazine, the Prime Minister said faith had a role to play in mending the “breakdown of responsibility” in Britain. “For [...]
by San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives This was the question on the mind of 20 Christian and Muslim girls at the Three Faiths Forum’s fashion summer school last week. The three-day ‘Empty Hanger’ course at the London College of Fashion was conceived by the Rev Joanna Jepson. She is passionate about seeing [...]
by Brooklyn Museum He speaks here about the harassment the church in Iran is experiencing at the hands of the government and what he is doing to change things from the outside. CT: You converted to Christianity while you were still living in Iran. Was the church more free back then? Mansour: I [...]
by TWAM – Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums The Tony Blair Faith Foundation (TBFF) and the Palestinian Authority have entered into a two-year agreement to train 200 teachers. The agreement was signed into being during a meeting between the foundation’s founder, former British Prime MinisterTony Blair, and Palestinian Education Minister Lamis al-Alami. The [...]
by North Carolina State Archives A nationwide photography competition is challenging amateur photographers to capture the importance of faith through the lens of a camera. ‘Faith through a lens’ is now in its second year and organisers, Congregational & General, will be looking for a snap just as captivating as last year’s winner, which [...]
by Bibliothèque de Toulouse There is no competition between reason and faith, but rather harmony, a senior Catholic leader has said. Delivering the annual Cardinal John Henry Newman Lecture in Oxford, Cardinal Peter Turkson said that the truth of faith and the truth of reason were not opposed to one another. Cardinal Turkson, president [...]
by Smithsonian Institution CT: In your book, you make the point that the church has got to start looking at why people are leaving the faith as much as it looks at why they would join it. Has that message resonated with the people you’ve met on your tour? Andy: Yes, it’s really important [...]
