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Sunday: Volunteer week, Anti-trafficking app, Grenfell

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03/06/2018

Volunteer week, Anti-trafficking app, Grenfell

BBC Radio 4 - Sunday, Volunteer week, Anti-trafficking app, Grenfell

Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme with Edward Stourton.

Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. The community and faith-based response to Grenfell. Edward Stourton presents.

On Monday religious think tank 'Theos' will publish a report, on how faith based organisations responded to the fire in Grenfell Tower. Report author Amy Plender, Muslim Aid's Jehangir Malick, and the Rev Mike Long from Notting Hill Methodist Church talk to Edward about what lessons can be learned.

There's scant reference to Phoebe in the New Testament. A former slave who became a wealthy deacon in the 1st Century Christian church she was entrusted by Paul to take an epistle to Rome. She is the subject of a new story by the scholar and theologian Paula Gooder.

To mark National Volunteers week David Cook explores a scheme run by Manchester Cathedral that has helped over 900 long term unemployed people improve their chances of finding work.

Later today church goers across the country will be given access to an app specially designed to help them notice tell-tale signs of exploitation of workers with the increasing number of hand car washes. The data they gather will then be shared with the National Crime Agency who can investigate further. Trevor Barnes reports.

A long-running conflict between cattle herders and farmers in central Nigeria is increasingly assuming a religious dimension, and as numbers of Christians and Muslims are killed our reporter from Nigeria, Stephanie Hegarty explains the history and current situation.

Friends and relatives of people killed in the London Bridge terror attack are being invited to come together and remember their loved ones during a service at Southwark Cathedral this Sunday, Bishop Christopher Chessun will talk about the importance of marking the anniversary.

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Carmel Lonergan
Louise Clarke-Rowbotham

Editor
Amanda Hancox

Photo: Grenfell Prayer Wall courtesy of Latymer Community Church.

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