Faithbased Organisations and Social Exclusion in an Urban Context FACIT is the overall frame of this volume. What is the present role of FaithBased Organisation... » 

Faithbased Organisations and Social Exclusion in an Urban Context FACIT is the overall frame of this volume. What is the present role of FaithBased Organisations FBOs in matters of poverty and other forms of social exclusion such as homelessness or undocumented persons in cities? A FBO is considered as any organisation that refers directly or indirectly to religion or religious values and functions as a welfare provider or as a political actor. The central assumption is that FBOs tend to fill the gap left after the supposed withdrawal of the welfare state in several domains of public life particularly in social welfare and in social protection.By the end of 2010 the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion eight research institutes from seven countries will deliver the final results of this research project within the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission. In this volume they present their first national background report. It contains information on the context of FBOs the welfare regime the role of religion the state of poverty and social exclusion and on the FBOs themselves a first typology and their role. «