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Inspiring hymns and songs, together with stories of faith from around the UK and beyond.

Inspiring hymns and songs, together with uplifting stories of faith from around the UK and beyond.

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Songs of Praise: Christian Compassion

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15/04/2018

Christian Compassion

BBC One - Songs of Praise, Christian Compassion

Claire McCollum meets Christian charity workers showing compassion around the world.

Claire McCollum meets compassionate Christians including charity workers and a chef influenced by visiting an African cocoa farm.

Songs of Praise celebrates faith and compassion by marking 50 years of the Christian overseas aid charity Tearfund. Presenter Claire McCollum talks to a top chef whose view of chocolate has been transformed by a trip to a west African cocoa farm and she meets the aid workers who survived the Nepal earthquake of 2015. The Reverend Kate Bottley talks to Christian students on a five-day charity challenge diet of only beans and rice. Hymns and songs on the theme of compassion include O Jesus I Have Promised, Mighty to Save and Beauty For Brokenness, written by Graham Kendrick for Tearfund's 25th anniversary.

Music:
How Deep the Father's Love for Us from Green Pastures, Ballymena
Brother Sister Let Me Serve You from Pershore Abbey
Lord I Lift Your Name from LSO St Luke's, London
Inspired by Love and Anger from Romsey Abbey
Mighty to Save from Salvation Army, Sale
Beauty for Brokenness from All Saints Church, Ecclesall
O Jesus I Have Promised from Bangor Cathedral.

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