While fundamentalists can use religion to create cultural divisions and breed extremism, Tony Blair is calling on world leaders to "get faith in action" and unleash shared moral values as a force for peace and positive change.
"Religious values can inform globalization and make it more humane," Blair said Thursday at a fundraising dinner for the Women's College Hospital in Toronto.
The call to action comes as Blair, a former Anglican who converted to Catholicism earlier this year, launches his Faith Foundation in New York on Friday, a new project aiming to build bridges between religions through dialogue and humanitarian work.
"Show (religion) doing something good" and it can be a powerful force, said the former British prime minister, who added communities in Africa beset by malaria could be better served through faith-based outreach.
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Rather than an abandonment of our principles, though, Blair said adapting is "a way of making our way of life relevant."
Blair should know.
He brought Britain's Labour party back into power after years in the political wilderness by abandoning many of it founding principles.
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