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- They are among the largest investment blocks on the global stock market.

- They produce more newspapers than the whole of the European Union.

2. '''How can religious organisations help bring about social change?'''

- Within poorer communities it can be that the religious leaders and organisation often have training in and access to particular resources like communication technology, that is not otherwise available in the community or even schools. This can be invaluable in linking to external NGO or funding organisations.

- Using their ‘people power’, motivated by a sense of spiritual obligation or fulfilment, faith groups can bring about real, pragmatic changes and sustain action and projects using surprisingly little resources.

3. '''What has religion to do with water and sanitation?'''

Equally WWF around the world has a history of working with the faiths. In 1986, HRH Prince Philip, then President of WWF International issued an astonishing invitation. He asked five leaders of the five major world religions – Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism – to come and discuss how their faiths could help save the natural world. He decided to do this at Assisi in Italy, because it was the birthplace of St Francis, the Catholic saint of ecology. It was a unique occasion, involving some of the world’s leading environmental and conservation bodies sitting down for the first time with the world’s major faiths to discuss how they could all work together. This event along with WWF UK was instrumental in the founding of the Alliance of Religions and Conservation. Currently with the WWF US’s Sacred Earth program this link between the work of WWF and faith communities is growing.

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