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14/08/2011

Edward Stourton with the religious and ethical news of the week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories familiar and unfamiliar.

Edward focuses on the riots that have dominated the news this week and how faith communities across England have been affected, and how they have reacted in the aftermath.

Trevor Barnes has travelled around London to hear how the riots touched three different groups in some of the worst hit parts of the capital: Enfield, Southall and Ealing. Trevor will join them to find out about how their experiences over the past week and how they intend to move on.

Edward will meet Irene Kuszta who organised the clean-up in Salford the day after her community was attacked. She will tell Edward how her faith motivated her to dig out her dustpan and brush.

We hear the latest from Qamar Bhatti a Muslim community leader in Birmingham which is in mourning for the three young men killed as they tried to protect their community.

And Edward will ask a panel comprising Nadine Dorries MP, Chaplain to the Speaker to the House of Commons Rev Rose Hudson-Wilkin and S Pastor Paul Lloyd from the Victory Outreach Church in Salford about the role of the church in the inner cities. Has Christianity lost its moral authority, with the inevitable consequence being the breakdown of law and order?

Away from events of the past seven days on the streets of England's cities, Matthew Bell reports on the Arab Spring and its progress during the holy month of Ramadan.

And how come the UK is now rated as being as bad as Russia and China when it comes to the tolerance of religion? Brian Grim from the Pew Forum joins Edward from Washington DC to explain his findings.

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