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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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The FBI and cult stand-off that gripped America
In the officially secular nation of France, will the elections become a fight over Muslim piety? And the 51 day stand-off between the FBI and the Branch Davidians cult that came to a fiery end.
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How caste politics impacted India's election result
Are we seeing the end of Hindu Nationalism in India? And why six in ten Australians voted "No" on the Voice referendum.
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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?