Sunday's interview last week with Weymouth Baptist Church has led to a great deal of debate about whether church leaders are backing fraudulent asylum claims. The home secretary is now investigating how the asylum system deals with migrants who have converted to Christianity. We talk to the Bishop of Chelmsford, Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani on the churches role in asylum.
Religious leaders across different faiths united to offer their prayers for King Charles following the announcement of his cancer diagnosis. How is personal faith challenged by a cancer diagnosis and how do different faiths and modern science approach the idea of praying for someone’s health in times of sickness? We hear US neuroscientist Joshua Brown and Kishori Jani, a teacher of Hindu scripture who runs popular social media channels featuring mantra chanting.
Spanish artist Salustiano García Cruz's depiction of a handsome, youthful Jesus on a poster in Seville has become the source of controversy. The painting, which shows a young and muscular Jesus in a loincloth, has critics – largely conservatives on social media – calling the image "offensive", "evil", and too "sexualised" for Holy Week. We take a look into how Jesus has been depicted in art over the centuries with Dr Siobhan Jolley, Art and Religion specialist at the National Gallery.
PRESENTER: EMILY BUCHANAN PRODUCERS: ALEXA GOOD AND ROSIE DAWSON EDITOR: DAN TIERNEY
80th Anniversary of Dunkirk; Forgiveness and Will Hajj Happen?
Keeping fit South Asian style, Navajo Nation, Church post-lockdown
VE Day Anniversary; Christian Charity Crisis; Ramadan Online
'Telephone Lament for Coronavirus', US Lockdown Protests, 'Best of' Streamed Worship.
Chester Mystery Plays go online; Pope Francis on Covid-19; Jewish Chronicle's financial woes
Covid ethical dilemmas; Plants for Passion; Holy Howlers
Covid-19 Funerals; Charity Funding; Fuad Nahdi
Response of Religions to Coronavirus; Worship Online; Mothing Sunday
The Bones of Saint Eanswythe; Christ Church College Dispute; Coronavirus and the Vatican
Digital Religion; International Women's Day; Coronavirus and a South Korean Religious Sect
Vatican "Secret" Archives; Coping with Trauma and Dehli Religious Riots
Doom Paintings, Illegal Schools; Bloomberg and the Jewish Vote
When Gospel Meets Hip-hop; Safeguarding; National Holocaust Memorial
Franklin Graham; Faith and Film; Red Sea Spies
Church of England football; Lawyer to Asia Bibi; The Rule of Benedict
Remembering the Holocaust; RE in Wales; Ezekiel Bread
A Hidden Life, Xenobots, Synagogue Leadership Row
Australian wildfires; China's religious prison camps; a 12th C Monk's diet
The Spirituality of Bees; Celebration Earth and Ethical Veganism.
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