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July 31 Mount Athos
Season 7 Episode 31
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Mount Athos is a unique centre for Orthodox Christianity, today in 1913 the Russian Navy removed 800 monks. We look at the traditi…
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July 29 Humanae Vitae and the issue of 'Reception'
Season 7 Episode 29
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Humane Vitae is the most controversial of papal encyclicals, restating the Church's opposition to artificial birth control. It also m…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
July 30 Johann Sebastian Bach
Season 7 Episode 30
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The greatest of the Baroque composers was a man of profound Lutheran faith, we look at his life
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July 28 The Mernaphta Stele
Season 7 Episode 28
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Today a British Archeologist discovered a standing stone from the Iron Age which had some remarkable inscriptions
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July 26 Padre Pio
Season 7 Episode 26
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The Franciscan friar, Francesco Forgione took the religious name Pius when he entered his order. He lived an unusual life of spiritu…
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July 27 Bonhoeffers Parents hear through the BBC that their son has been killed
Season 7 Episode 27
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran pastor and icon of Christian resistance to the Nazis was executed. Four months later his parents fou…
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June 2 Anthony DeMello
Season 6 Episode 2
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Indian Priest and psychotherapist Anthony De Mello sold over 2 million books on spirituality in his life time, fusing Christian Spiri…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
June 1 The Dead Sea Scrolls
Season 6 Episode 1
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The most exciting discovery of modern Archaeology in a cave by the shore of the Dead Sea. The Dead Sea Scrolls is a huge discovery o…
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May 31 Aparecida & the making of Pope Francis
Season 5 Episode 31
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The 5th conference of Latin American Bishops (CELAM) was in the Mexican shrine of Aparecida. Did this mark a decisive shift to Latin …
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May 30 Standing up to the Nazi's, the Confessing Church
Season 5 Episode 30
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On May 30 the confessing church in German finished its first synod and issued the Barmen Declaration. Bravely denouncing the Nazifica…
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