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Sunday: Bring Back Our Girls, Anglican schools admissions, 'Gay conversion'

12/04/2015

Bring Back Our Girls, Anglican schools admissions, 'Gay conversion'

BBC Radio 4 - Sunday, Bring Back Our Girls, Anglican schools admissions, 'Gay conversion'

Edward Stourton speaks to Oby Ezekwesili, co-founder of the Bring Back Our Girls campaign.

Edward Stourton speaks to Oby Ezekwesili, co-founder of the Bring Back Our Girls campaign. Plus the admission policies at Anglican schools and 'gay conversion' therapies.

Ahead of the first anniversary this week of the abduction of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls by Islamist militants Boko Haram, Edward Stourton speaks to Oby Ezekwesili, co-founder of the Bring Back Our Girls Campaign.

An open letter from several Anglican clergy and lay people is calling for Church of England schools to scrap admissions based on church attendance. We debate the issues.

In his first interview with Sunday since stepping down as Chief Crown Prosecutor for the north-west of England, Nazir Afzal tells us how he believes Muslim communities should respond to the radicalisation of British teenagers by Islamic State.

US President Barack Obama has condemned psychiatric therapies championed by some Conservative religious groups, designed to "repair" gay, lesbian and transgender youth. It comes ahead of a conference in the UK this week on the theme of 'gay conversion' therapy. Trevor Barnes reports.

We speak to the Bishop of Manchester, David Walker, who has just returned from Pakistan, where he spent Easter visiting churches in Lahore and meeting victims of last month's deadly bomb attacks by Taliban militants.

Two convicted Australian drug traffickers are facing execution in Indonesia after losing their latest appeal. Their lawyers argue that they are reformed. Ken Crispin QC, former Australian Supreme Court judge and member of the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, explains his concerns.

And John Laurenson reports from Mount Athos in Greece, seen by many as the centre of the Orthodox Christian world and inhabited by more than 2000 monks.

Producers:
Dan Tierney
David Cook

Series producer:
Amanda Hancox

Contributors:
Bishop David Walker
Hon Ken Crispin QC
Nazir Afzal
Oby Ezekwesili
Rev Stephen Terry
Anne Davey.

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