Religion in the Digital Age

Religion apps: Daily prayer and the devil's data

Peace and prayer on your phone - at the price of your data

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Religion in the Digital Age

Finding and losing my faith online

The young faith influencers using social media to connect with like-minded others

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Religion in the Digital Age

Take me to VR church

Attending a VR church service & how VR is preserving the memories of Holocaust survivors.

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Religion in the Digital Age

The discussion

What's the role of artificial intelligence in faith and worship?

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Buddhist detox

The Buddhist temple treating drug addiction

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The Tattooist of Jerusalem

Wassim Razzouk's family have been tattooing pilgrims to Jerusalem for more than 500 years

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Faith in lockdown France

How different faiths are bringing worship and comfort to their communities.

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The Right Thing

The inseparable twins

Ibrahima faced a terrifying choice - to separate his conjoined twins or risk losing them

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The Right Thing

Joshua Wong: Standing up to a superpower

Joshua Wong on what he sees as the right thing in his fight against Beijing’s influence

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Reflections on Faith in a Global Crisis

Ritual

John McCarthy brings together reflections from people of faith around the world

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Reflections on Faith in a Global Crisis

Compassion

Could nurturing compassion mean the world emerges as a kinder place?

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Reflections on Faith in a Global Crisis

Solitude

John McCarthy hears reflections and insights from people of faith on solitude

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Reflections on Faith in a Global Crisis

Community

John McCarthy brings together reflections from people around the world

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Reflections on Faith in a Global Crisis

Prayer

John McCarthy shares the reflections of people of faith around the world during a pandemic

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Reflections on Faith in a Global Crisis

Moving Forward

John McCarthy shares the reflections of people of faith around the world during a pandemic

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Redemption in recycling

How a Philadelphia husband and wife are helping ex-offenders reintegrate into society

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The paddle-out

Surfers honour death with a paddle-out. Hear stories from Hawaii, Cape Town and Cornwall

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USA: A discussion about race

Is the use of violence in the pursuit of a greater good ever acceptable?

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The pastor and the prime minister

John Laurenson travels to Hungary where there is a war over the meaning of Christianity

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The divinity of Haile Selassie

How did the Ethiopian King Haile Selassie become the god for the Rastafari community?

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Vipassana: 240 hours of silence

Inside the world of vipassana meditation - 10 days of demanding, illuminating silence

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Burying the dead in New York City

Funeral director Clive Anderson has been struggling to deal with new Coronavirus cases.

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Will coronavirus change my faith?

Sodaba Haidare looks at how different faiths will change post pandemic

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Zoroastrianism and death

The religious duty of every Zoroastrian is to focus on life, even at the time of death

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Will God protect me?

What does it mean to ask "God to keep you safe" in the time of a pandemic?

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Fruit of thy womb

Many religions revere child bearing – how does this affect women unable to conceive?

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Faith versus the virus: Pakistan’s struggle

The struggle between science and faith in Pakistan during the Coronavirus pandemic

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Father Joe

Last year Father Joe Gormley spoke out against Lyra McKee’s murder in Northern Ireland.

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The lives of female Qur'an reciters

Around the world, attitudes differ towards female voices reciting the Qur'an in public

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The US elections: A faith perspective

What role will faith play in determining who will become the next US President?

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Testifying against a Neo-Nazi

Two friends discuss standing up to someone who wants to kill you because of your faith.

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Russia's persecuted Jehovah’s Witnesses

Hundreds of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia are currently being prosecuted for their faith

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Is this Egypt’s #MeToo moment?

Salma El-Wardany on the movement calling out the culture of sexual assault in Egypt.

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The living water

Why is water so important in the lives of believers

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Catholic women and the US elections

Catholic women explain how faith influenced their vote in the US Presidential election.

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Converts amongst the conflict in Belarus

In Belarus, Alina Isachenka meets Orthodox worshippers who have converted to Catholicism

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The Canadian Uighurs

Canadian Uighurs tell Idil Mussa about those who have been through Chinese re-education.

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Jonestown: From socialism to slaughter - Part one

How over 900 Peoples Temple members came to die in the Guyanese jungle

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Jonestown: From socialism to slaughter - Part two

How over 900 Peoples Temple members came to die in the Guyanese jungle

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Black Jesus

Jesus' identity and colour has taken on a new significance in this year of protest.

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To Santa from Shanghai

Unwrapping the myriad meanings of Santa Claus in the “official home of Santa”, Rovaniemi

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Coping with grief

The Archbishop of Canterbury and the UK’s Chief Rabbi discuss coping with losing a child

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Malta: The island where abortion is a crime

Sophia Smith Galer explores the strength of feeling around abortion in Malta

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Three months to save my son's life

We follow the parents of a boy with a genetic disorder as they try to save his life

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The Right Thing: Saving the man who shot me

Shot in ‘revenge’ for 9/11, Rais Bhuiyan tried to save his attacker’s life

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The Right Thing: A life worth living?

A Down’s syndrome diagnosis leads to hard choices and a complicated journey

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