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Sunday: Life after death survey, Workplace chaplains, Jorvik Viking centre.

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09/04/2017

Life after death survey, Workplace chaplains, Jorvik Viking centre.

BBC Radio 4 - Sunday, Life after death survey, Workplace chaplains, Jorvik Viking centre.

Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme presented by Edward Stourton.

Life after death survey, workplace chaplains, Jorvik Viking centre.

After the Jorvick Viking Centre was damaged by floods in December 2015 the attraction used the rebuilding opportunity to tell visitors more about the city's Viking history. As Kevin Bocquet discovers, the exhibition now demonstrates how Christianity and traditional Norse pagan beliefs overlapped in Viking-age York.

Exactly two weeks after the terror attack in Westminster, four British Imam's travelled to Rome for a private audience with Pope Francis. Although planned long before Khalid Masood's attack, it was the latest effort at improving interfaith dialogue between the Roman Catholic Church and Islam. The BBC's Religious Affairs Correspondent Martin Bashir travelled with the Imams and reports on how the meeting went.

In a week of government trips abroad with Theresa May in Saudi Arabia and Liam Fox in the Philippines, Sunday asks whether post Brexit we will still be able to afford ethical foreign and trade policies? Dr Philip Cunliffe Senior Lecturer in International Conflict at the University of Kent and Professor Scott Lucas from The University of Birmingham discuss where lines should be drawn.

Ministers from the Church of England, Methodist and Catholic Church have begun offering Chaplaincy services to staff at Sports Direct headquarters in Shirebrook. Edward talks to the new chaplain Rev Karen Bradley. 

The Bishop of Manchester, David Walker and Kati Harrison, Katie Harrison, Director, Faith Research Centre take a look at the findings of a new ComRes poll on belief in the resurrection and life after death.

In response to the lorry attack in the centre of Stockholm on Friday. Edward speaks to Hans Ulfvebrand the Dean at Stockholm Cathedral. 

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Carmel Lonergan
Louise Clarke-Rowbotham

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Amanda Hancox.

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