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For the Love of God

09/01/2015

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Catrin Nye asks if couples with different religious beliefs can make a relationship work.

Catholic and atheist, Sikh and Muslim, Orthodox Jew and agnostic - Catrin Nye asks if couples with very different religious beliefs can still make a relationship work.

Harpreet is Sikh and married to a Muslim - she loves him and says she won't leave him but fourteen years into marriage feels marrying outside of her faith was the wrong thing to do. Glyn is agnostic and lives with Orthodox Jew David. Their marriage involves balancing David's strict religious observance with their gay lifestyle. Tauseef grew up Muslim but has been atheist since he was a teenager. He ended up married to a Muslim woman who has become increasingly strong in her faith and says he will do anything to keep their struggling marriage alive - including taking Islamic classes, despite secretly enjoying drinking sessions with friends.

The UK is now a religious melting pot - and interfaith marriage is part of society - but at the same time the number of people with no religion whatsoever is at an all-time high. Society's increasingly open attitude to mixed relationships is generally viewed as a good thing but how do you manage what comes with a mixed-faith relationship? How do you understand your partner's fervent belief in God if you think it's total rubbish and how do you bring up your children if each parent is staunchly of a different religion? In this documentary Catrin Nye explore the joys, struggles and compromises that have to be made and asks how much love can overcome.

Presenter: Catrin Nye
Producer: Athar Ahmad
Editor: Kevin Silverton
Original Music by Adam Pickering.

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