The Church of England is facing renewed criticism following its decision to close its own Independent Safeguarding Board last year. At the time, church authorities said they closed the board in order to replace it with a more independent and more effective body. But some victims and survivors of abuse say that decision left them feeling abandoned, silenced and re-traumatised. William Crawley hears from one of those survivors, as well as from David Glasgow, a clinical psychologist who has published his own report into the matter, and from Dr Jamie Harrison, chair of the House of Laity on the Archbishops' Council.
In Nicaragua, Catholic universities and charities have been closed or seized by the government because bishops and priests have publicly challenged what they view as the regime's abuse of human rights. Francisco Urrutia, General Secretary of the Association of Jesuit Universities in Latin America, tells the programme that President Daniel Ortega's regime is set on silencing the church's voice in public life.
The rapper Lil Nas X is the latest musical artist to cause controversy with his new song, "J-CHRIST", accompanied by a music video in which he's strapped to the cross in place of Jesus. He has apologised insisting he didn't mean to mock Christianity. Delvyn Case, Professor of Music at Wheaton College in Massachusetts, explores the history of pop music's sometimes uncomfortable relationship with Jesus.
PRESENTER; William Crawley PRODUCERS: Amanda Hancox and Alexa Good EDITOR: Dan Tierney.
Christians in Bethlehem; New Archbishop of York; Catholic Abuse law change
Two Popes, A Green Christmas, and God and the Election
Bikram Yoga Film; Eco Mosque and Megan Phelps-Roper
First Sunday in Advent; Climate Change; Faith and Policing
Rose Hudson-Wilkin; Anti-Semitism and Non-Religious Assemblies
Church Loan Scandal, Religious Vote, Ebola Bishop
Remembrance Sunday, The President's Pastor, Cardinal Nichols
Sentamu, Rebel Monk, IICSA
Uluru; Einstein; Amazon Synod
Westminster Abbey, Gay Sikhs and Gandhi Statue
Canonisation of Cardinal Newman
Witch Map; LGBT+ Mass; Chibok Girls
Handel's Brockes Passion; Unparliamentary language; Religious education
Gender Neutral Babies, Rahmen Chisti, Persecuted Christians
Gun-carrying Pastor, Crowdfunding Ethics, William Blake's beliefs
Should you break a promise, Sacred trees, The legacy of Mugabe
Amazon indigenous tribes, Bishops' Brexit letter, Sogyal Rinpoche
Religion and Music
Legal loopholes, Christian Liberty, conflict resolution and World Humanitarian Day
Sister Helen Prejean, Brexit and the Border, Hong Kong Protests
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