Past Programs
Islam - 2008
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Gregorian Chant goes platinum
10/09/2008
Fr Karl is from a group of monks from the Vienna Woods who have become the most unlikely international pop stars of 2008 with their album 'Chant'.
The undercover Mosque; Gregorian Chant goes platinum
10/09/2008
"The Undercover Mosque: The return": an interview with David henshaw, the executive producer of one of the most controversial documentaries on Islam ever made in Britain. Also; Fr Karl is from a group of monks from the Vienna Woods who have become the most unlikely international pop stars of 2008 with their album 'Chant', and some of these Cistercian monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz were here for World Youth Day celebrations.
Kenyan Sr Ephigenia Gachiri IBVM on her work at WYD 2008
23/07/2008
Female genital mutilation and women's rights faced by African pilgrims with Loreto Sr Ephigenia
Jerusalem and GAFCON
25/06/2008
1000 Conservative Anglican leaders in Jerusalam at the Global Anglican Futures Conference have avoided wider schism, but restated the depth of the crisis in the international Communion
Ehud Ya'ari on the Middle East
25/06/2008
Ehud Ya'ari on the Middle east- where Israel is entering into negotiations with its enemies on three fronts simultaneously
Jerusalem and GAFCON; Israeli journalist Ehud Ya'ari on the Middle East
25/06/2008
1000 Conservative Anglican leaders in Jerusalam at the Global Anglican Futures Conference have avoided schism, but restated the depth of the crisis in the international Communion; Ehud Ya'ari on the Middle east- where Israel is entering into negotiations with its enemies on three fronts simultaneously
Indonesia, the Ahmadiyya and radical Islam
18/06/2008
Radical Islam in Indonesia is on the march, and the religious pluralism enshrined in the doctrine of Pancasila is coming under direct attack. Last week the Indonesian government has issued a joint ministerial decree telling the heretical Muslim Ahmadiyya movement to 'stop spreading interpretations and activities' which deviate from orthodox Islam. That decree has implications for other minorities as well, including liberal and reformist Muslims, and the moderate Wahid Institute (named for former president Abdurrahman Wahid) says the country is on the brink of becoming an Islamic state.
Indonesia, the Ahmadiyya and radical Islam
18/06/2008
Radical Islam in Indonesia is on the march, and the religious pluralism enshrined in the doctrine of Pancasila is coming under direct attack. Last week the Indonesian government has issued a joint ministerial decree telling the heretical Muslim Ahmadiyya movement to 'stop spreading interpretations and activities' which deviate from orthodox Islam. That decree has implications for other minorities as well, including liberal and reformist Muslims, and the moderate Wahid Institute (named for former president Abdurrahman Wahid) says the country is on the brink of becoming an Islamic state.
Melanie Phillips on the Archbishop of Canterbury and Islamic Sharia law in Britain
13/02/2008
The Archbishop of Canterbury's suggestion that some form of sharia law is inevitable in Britain has provoked public outrage - The Times has labelled him a traitor and there have been calls for his resignation. Now Rowan Williams says he has been misunderstood - he never intended to suggest there should be parallel legal jurisdictions. We speak to the author of Londonistan, Melanie Phillips, about why Britain's elites seem so strangely reluctant to defend the idea of a common culture.
Michael Mumisa on the Archbishop of Canterbury and Islamic Sharia law in Britain
13/02/2008
Sheikh Michael Mumisa, an Islamic scholar based at Cambridge University, explains why the majority of Muslims in Britain don't want a bar of sharia law.
Concerning the Archbishop of Canterbury on Islamic Sharia law in Britain
13/02/2008
The Religion Report speaks with Melanie Phillips from "The Spectator" who has written on the Archbishop of Canterbury under the headline - Dhimmi - or just dim?". Also Sheikh Michael Mumisa from Cambridge University - an Islamic scholar based at Cambridge Unversity. He's opposed to Sharia law being introduced in the UK and says that in practice, it always disadvantages women.
