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Rwandan Church Closures, 大象传媒 School Reporters, Science versus Religion

Church closures ordered by the Rwandan government, 大象传媒 school reporters interview high-profile religious figures and the discovery of ancient graffiti at a church in Winchester.

As diplomatic relations between the UK and Russia get worse, Reverend Malcolm Rogers the chaplain at St Andrew's Anglican Church in the centre of Moscow, which has long been a community hub for British ex-pats in the Russian capital, speaks to us about his hopes and fears for the future.

The Rwandan government has ordered 1500 Churches to be shut for not complying with building regulations and causing noise pollution. The government has also closed some Mosques and banned loudspeakers during the Muslim calls to prayer. Michael Kaloki from the 大象传媒's East Africa Bureau gives an update on what's been happening there

大象传媒 School Reporters interview leading religious figures including the Bishop of Manchester, Rabbi Daniel Walker and Tahiri Shafi and Kay Baig from the organisation Greater Manchester Muslim Community

After a ten year long investigation involving over three hundred doctors, the Roman Catholic Church has recognized the first miraculous cure since 2013 following a pilgrimage to Lourdes. In 2008, a French Franciscan nun called Sister Bernadette Moriau visited the shrine where the Virgin Mary appeared to a young shepherdess in the mid-19th Century. Moriau had Cauda Equina Syndrome and was partially paralysed. She visited Lourdes in a wheelchair but immediately after returning home, she underwent a sudden, full, lasting and medically-inexplicable recovery. In other words - a miracle. Our Paris correspondent John Laurenson has been to visit her at her nunnery in the northern town of Beauvais...

Matthew Champion tells William Crawley what medieval graffiti tell us about life during the time of the Black death in Winchester.

Trevor Barnes reports on the challenges that face faith schools ahead of legislation that makes it mandatory for all schools to teach Relationship and Sex Education.

Professor Ted Cantle of the Community Cohesion Foundation and Miqdaad Versi of the Muslim Council of Britain discuss whether the focus and scope of the Government's Green Paper on integration, published this week, goes far enough in tackling what the report describes as "a worrying number of communities, divided along race, faith or socio-economic lines".

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