Tony Blair: Keeping faith in peace in the Middle East - CNN.com
CNN reports: "Rather than join the board of a company and embark on the after-dinner speech circuit after leaving office in June 2007, Blair was appointed official envoy to the Middle East, representing the U.N., U.S., EU and Russia. It's an enormously challenging role, but one he feels even more engaged with thanks to his own faith (Blair converted to Catholicism when he left British politics). 'I enjoy being there, I find it exciting and enthralling,' Blair told CNN. 'If you're someone from the Abraham faiths, then to be in the Holy Land; to be in and around the places that you read about and grew up with in the Bible, is very inspiring."