The British Humanist Association is a British charity which works on the behalf of non-religious people in the United Kingdom.

EndItNow is a global campaign to stop violence against women. The campaign is sponsored by the women’s ministry department of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and the Adventist Development and Relief Agency. Contact through the website.

The Center for Interfaith Action targets global poverty and describes its work as “operating at the intersection of faith and development.” Its initiatives include the Women, Faith and Development Alliance. CIFA also has its own new gender program. Contact Margaux Bergen, director of communications and development.

Katherine Marshall is executive director of the World Faiths Development Dialogue and senior fellow and visiting professor at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs, leading the Program on Religion and Global Development. She is an expert on international development issues and advises the World Bank, where she once worked.

A 2004 ABC News poll conducted three weeks before the premiere of The Passion of the Christ found that fewer than one in 10 Americans say all Jews today are responsible for the death of Jesus.

A survey taken two weeks after The Passion of the Christ’s premiere by the San Francisco-based Institute for Jewish & Community Research found that among those who saw the film or were familiar with it, 83 percent said it had no impact on the extent to which they feel contemporary Jews are to blame for Jesus’ death. Two percent […]

Jean Duff is executive director of the Center for Interfaith Action on Global Poverty. CIFA was one of four co-convening agencies that brought faith, women’s and foreign development groups together in 2008 to work in the Women, Faith and Development Alliance for women and girls. The 2008 gathering was the occasion to announce $1.4 billion in commitments […]

An April 2004 Pew Research Poll conducted a month after the release of The Passion found that the belief that Jews were responsible for Christ’s death was increasing and was particularly strong among viewers of The Passion.

Mayra Buvinic is sector director for gender and development at the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network of the World Bank. She was a founding member and president of the International Center for Research on Women. Contact her through the bank’s media division in Washington, D.C.