There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.

Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples' cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world.

A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.

We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.

The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.

The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.

There are those... who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to improve their lot. Unless these unfortunates can be touched with the spark which ignites the spirit of individual enterprise and determination, they will only sink back into renewed apathy, degradation and despair. It is for us, who are more fortunate, to provide that spark.