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Bishop Pierre-Marie Theas

A man imprisoned by the Nazi, who encouraged prayers for the Germans

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Forgiving and Forgetting

Why is it so difficult to forgive and forget - especially forget?

• 4 mins

Routine Prayers

Do ritual prayers encourage devotion or boredom, especially in the young?

• 4 mins

Passover

The history and meaning behind the Passover celebrations

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Buddhist Festival of Vesak

What does the Buddhist festival of Vesak - Full Moon - celebrate?

• 4 mins

Faith and the Environment

What is the future of conservation, and are faiths doing enough?

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Faith and the Environment

How is the alliance between religions and conservationists working?

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Faith and the Environment

What difference does faith make to how we treat the world?

• 4 mins

Forgiving Germany

Canon Paul Oestreicher, a refugee from Nazi Germany, on forgiveness and World War Two

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Contemporary Jewish Experience

"It's a queue to get in and a queue to get out"

• 4 mins

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Thoughts on the exulting, neurotic, divinely inspired poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Mary the Good

Away from the theological divide, why do we not remember Mary the Good?

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Hajj - Islam

Why Muslims, before going on the Hajj, are recommended to get their affairs in order

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The Hajj

The story of the Prophet Ibrahim and the final pillar of Islam, the Hajj

• 3 mins

Sunni and Shia

Thoughts on the history of division between Sunni and Shia Muslims

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Islam

Will Islam develop like Christianity has developed, adapting itself to changing times?

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Sharia

The crucial distinction between Sharia as the Islamic way of life and as Islamic law

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Sacred Sites - Thubten Choling, Nepal

Reflections on Thubten Choling, a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Nepal

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Sacred Sites

Why are some parts of the earth believed to have special spiritual resonance?

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Maori Culture

What does it mean to live as a Maori in a multicultural society?

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Jewish Museums

Do people go to Jewish museums to reflect on past evils and consider reconciliation?

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VE Day in Berlin

Evelyn Friedlander reveals her mixed feelings at spending VE Day in Berlin.

• 3 mins

Unemployment

Former British miner Malcolm Pitt on unemployment as a question of moral choice

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Social Justice

A former British miner on faith, human toil, and the need for justice

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Faith and Work

How faith helped a British miner cope with the closure of his mine in 1987

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Jiddu Krishnamurthy

Thoughts on Krishnamurthy's simple message: leaders cannot solve an individual's problems

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Indonesian Church and State

Is religion irrelevant to, or incompatible with, the modern nation state?

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Christianity in Indonesia

A visit to a Melanesian village reveals a large modern building atop a hill - the church

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Ashura and Islam

On the martyrdom of Imam Hussein and the need to stand up to tyranny

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Asceticism and Islam

Sayyed Nadeem Kazmi on asceticism, denial, self discipline, and Islam

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