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Sunday: 08/01/2012

08/01/2012

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Samira Ahmed with the religious and ethical news of the week.

Samira Ahmed with the religious and ethical news of the week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories familiar and unfamiliar.

On this weekend's Sunday programme, Samira Ahmed talks to Rev David Cruise, a close friend of Stephen Lawrence's family, about why he finds forgiveness difficult. Samira also discusses whether or not, eighteen years down the line, racism is still an issue in our society, with Rev Nims Obunge, Pastor at the Freedom's Ark Church, in Tottenham, London.
Joan of Arc was a French national heroine who became one of its patron saints. Now six hundred years after her birth, Samira examines Joan of Arc's legacy within Catholicism and how her form of protest compares with that we see today, with Professor Frank Furedi, Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent and Dr. Sarah Jane Boss, Director of the Centre for Marian Studies at Roehampton University.
As the victims of last year's bombings in Alexandria are remembered in a memorial service, His Grace Bishop Angaelos, General Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the UK talks to Samira about his concerns for the future of the Coptic community in Egypt.
He's one of our Olympic 2012 hopefuls, but for British Rower Mohammed Sbihi competing in the Games during Ramadan is set to provide a whole new challenge as he explains to our Reporter Charles Carroll.
A year long inquiry by the Commission on Assisted Dying has concluded that it is possible to allow assisted dying within a strict set of rules to ensure it's not abused. Samira talks to two people who've changed their position on this issue, the Reverend Canon Dr James Woodward, who sat on the Commission and Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain. 
And Trevor Barnes reveals details of how you can get involved in the BBC's interactive project for Holy Week known as The People's Passion. www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/peoples-passion

Series Producer: Amanda Hancox.

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