Blair: Man of faith

May 2001: Tony Blair sings from a hymn book at the St Saviour's and St Olave's school in Bermondsey, south London, following his official announcement of the date of that year's general election Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/PA

2006: Blair at a thanksgiving service at Bevis Marks Synagogue, central London, to mark the 350th anniversary of the resettlement of Jews in England Photograph: Steve Parsons/PA

April 2006: Blair waves to the crowd during his visit to the Shree Swaminarayan Hindu temple in London Photograph: Sang Tan/AP

December 2001: Blair shakes hands with Sikh leaders before a Downing Street meeting Photograph: Adam Butler/AP

December 2006: Blair talks to Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, grand sheik of al-Azhar mosque in Cairo - the Sunni Islamic world's most important institution Photograph: Ben Curtis/AP

June 2006: Blair meets Pope Benedict XVI at his private library in Vatican City. The following year he converted to Catholicism Photograph: L'Osservatore Romano/Getty