28/02/2010

Every year the Prayer Book Society gets keen young things to compete to memorise and recite passages from the Book of Common Prayer. Charles Carroll reports from the Cranmer Awards.
Recently published figures show that Anglican church attendance is falling. It's at its worst in the Blackburn diocese where it's 15% lower than comparable figures 4 years ago - Kevin Bocquet goes to Blackburn to ask if the statistics tell the whole story and what churches are doing to stay relevant.
An internationally respected Muslim jurist from Pakistan but now based in Canada, Shaykh ul-Islam Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, has issued a fatwa against suicide bombings and terrorism. We talk to anti-extremism campaigner Rashad Ali about what this might mean.
We hear from a former Australian child migrant who was sent to an orphanage run by the Christian Brothers, by a Catholic orphanage in this country. Has Gordon Brown's apology helped him?
Professor Rosalie David from Manchester University tells us how the food that the Ancient Egyptians offered to their gods was ultimately eaten by the priests - who paid with their health.