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Sunday: Liverpool shooting; Great cathedrals; Russian Jews

28/08/2022

Liverpool shooting; Great cathedrals; Russian Jews

BBC Radio 4 - Sunday, Liverpool shooting; Great cathedrals; Russian Jews

A look at the ethical and religious issues of the week with William Crawley.

Liverpool shooting; great cathedrals; Boys' Brigade; Russian Jews.

Churches in Liverpool are today opening their doors to members of the community still struggling to come to terms with the shooting of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel. Olivia was killed as her mother struggled with a gunman at the door of their home on Monday. The Right Reverend Beverley Mason is the acting Bishop of Liverpool and also Bishop of Warrington. She tells William Crawley about the support they can offer.

An astonishing 20,500 of Russia's estimated 165,000 Jews have left Russia since the invasion of Ukraine. According to the Jewish Agency, which helps Jews move to Israel, at least one in eight Jews has now left the country - including the Chief Rabbi of Moscow, Pinchas Goldschmidt. Many have gone to Israel, but thousands more have moved to other countries. Anna Shternshis, Professor of Yiddish Studies and a Specialist in Russian Jewish history at the University of Toronto, tells us why.

One of the UK’s oldest church-based youth organisations may be about to split.  The Northern Ireland section of the Boy's Brigade, which has been mostly linked to the conservative-leaning Presbyterian Church in Ireland, is about to poll its leaders on a motion to separate from the national organisation.  The Boys' Brigade has historically been one organisation across the British Isles, so this would be a major departure.  One third of members are based in Northern Ireland. 

And what's your favourite cathedral?  A new book celebrates the lives, legacies and extraordinary histories of some of the world's greatest cathedrals. Author and architectural historian Emma Wells tells us where her research took her.

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produced by Julia Paul and Jill Collins.

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