50 episodes
The Religion and Ethics Report - Full program podcast ABC listen
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- Religion & Spirituality
The Religion and Ethics Report, where religion and ethics meet news and current affairs in Australia and around the world.
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Elections in South Africa, and the history of gay Republicans
What religious parties want after South Africa's historic elections, and the largely untold history of the gay right in America.
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Why Hungary's PM is evoking Europe's Christian past
With the EU elections coming up, Hungary's Viktor Orban has styled himself as a defender of a so-called Judeo-Christian Europe. Plus, Beijing has tried to co-opt Tibetan Buddhism, but how successful has it been in doing so?
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Iran after Raisi's death, and the Vatican's take on the supernatural
Could the death of Iran's president Ebrahim Raisi open up a chance for reform? The Vatican's new guidelines on how to deal with supernatural phenomena, and how the Gaza war is impacting the nearby country of Jordan.
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Pope Pius XII and the secret history of IVF
The Vatican's secret role in the birth of IVF, how young is too young to visit Auschwitz? and did aid agencies get what they sought for in the federal budget?
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How the sacking of a French nun caused church state tensions
Why the case of a nun has ignited church state tensions in France, Pope Francis' statement on human dignity joins the political left and right, and what motivates a terrorist, from a psychological perspective?
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Age verification for porn content, and what is cool Christianity?
Urgent calls to restrict access of children and teens to online porn, new research looks at safeguards that prevent child sexual abuse in churches, and what's the line between faith and entertainment culture?