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Sunday: Air strikes, Opus Dei, 'atheist evangelisation'

28/09/2014

Air strikes, Opus Dei, 'atheist evangelisation'

BBC Radio 4 - Sunday, Air strikes, Opus Dei, 'atheist evangelisation'

This edition looks at Opus Dei, 'atheist evangelisation', and air strikes on Islamic State

Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. This edition looks at Opus Dei, 'atheist evangelisation', and MPs voting in favour of air strikes on Islamic State.

Following MPs voting in favour of air strikes in Iraq, we debate the moral case for the latest military intervention in the Middle East.

A review of Religious Education in Church of England schools has found that the teaching of RE is "not good enough" in 60% of their Primary Schools. We discuss the issues.

Muhammad Asghar, a British man who was sentenced to death in Pakistan for blasphemy, is in hospital after being shot by a prison guard in jail. We get the latest on the case and where it sits within Pakistan's controversial blasphemy laws.

With one week to go until Brazil's presidential elections, abortion has become a significant issue. Bruce Douglas reports on whether this controversial subject is likely to determine the outcome of the election.

We hear about the life of Bishop Alvaro del Portillo, former leader of the Opus Dei movement of the Catholic Church who is being be beatified at a ceremony in Madrid over the weekend.

With over 30 new Sunday Assemblies, or so-called Godless congregations, opening up across the world this weekend, and a poster campaign in the London Underground from the British Humanist Association, Kevin Bocquet reports on the rise of "atheist evangelisation".

Producers:
Dan Tierney
Carmel Lonergan

Series producer:
Amanda Hancox

Contributors:
Lord Richard Dannatt
Asad Zaman
Bishop John Pritchard
Alan Brine
Jack Valero
John Allen.

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