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.
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Church Bucket List; Survivors Redress Scheme; Jewish Time Capsule
Manchester Camerata ; Cardinal Vincent Nicholls and Baptism Error
Leroy Logan; Prayer Wall; Witches Pardon
Wedding law review, ‘Celebration Earth’, the ‘Holy Blood of Hailes’
Andy Burnham, Jonathan Sacks and others celebrate Sunday's 50 birthday.
Medieval Sacristy revealed; The Good Childhood Report; Climate Change Protest
Jewish Spell Book; Detained Sikh; Education Bishop
Britain's Pilgrim Places; Church of England Safeguarding Concerns; Gong Baths
John Hume remembered, Women in Top Vatican Jobs, Yoga therapy
Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki 75 years on; Sheffield Cathedral Choir; Hajj in lockdown
Bishop Michael Curry; Sudan; Westminster Abbey Financial Crisis
Church Finance Crisis; Islam Campus Report; Methodism & Racism
Greyfriars Bobby; Jehovah's Witness; the New Archbishop of York
Cycling Sisters; Leicester in Lockdown; Children's Mental Health
Hajj, Russian Jews and Weddings are back.
The Journey App, Rowan Williams, Black Jews
Post Office IT dispute, Carers week; Places of worship reopening.
Young Black UK Voices; President Trump's Evangelicals; Hagia Sofia
DJ Chaplain; Vatican's Covid-19 Commission; Prayers in the parking lot
George Floyd death reaction, Sikh representation row, ‘Most popular hymn of hope’
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