The Religion and Ethics Report - Separate stories podcast

Buddhist extremists have been emboldened by religious nationalism in America and beyond. They defy the image of Buddhism and undermine its core teachings.

Pope Leo visits Africa next week on a 10-day tour that will take him to Algeria, Cameroon, Angola, and Equatorial Guinea. Buddhist extremists have been emboldened by religious nationalism in America and beyond. They defy the image of Buddhism and undermine its core teachings.

It's 40 years since the Philippine People's Revolution 
It was a revolution where barely a shot was fired. Nuns armed with rosary beads helped lead millions of Filipinos in peaceful demonstrations that, 40 years ago, brought down the dictator Ferdinand Marcos.  
Ringing in the ears of the people was the voice of a soft-spoken archbishop who urged them to topple a corrupt and increasingly brutal regime.  
Just how critical was Cardinal Jaime Sin and the Catholic Church to the People Power revolution?  
GUEST: 
Dr Jethro Calacday, Filipino historian currently at Cambridge University

Australia is a country where meat is our national icon — we commune around the barbie and love our meat pies. 
Yet, we also have some of the oldest vegetarian societies and earliest western animal cruelty laws. 
In the place of The World Today on Good Friday, James Carleton from Radio National’s God Forbid philosopher Professor Rachel Ankeny, author Edgar Crook and theologian Professor David Clough to examine what we eat from cultural, ethical and historical perspectives.
GUESTS:
Rachel Ankeny is Chair and Professor of Philosophy at Wageningen University.
Edgar Crook is author of "Abstainers! – a vegetarian and vegan history of Australia" and "Vegetarianism in Australia 1788 to 1948: A Cultural and Social History."
David Clough is Chair in Theology and Applied Sciences at the University of Aberdeen.

Each Easter, we bring you stories from places where war and other disasters can try people’s faith but where, despite great despair, their religious beliefs survive.
ASUNTHA CHARLES has worked with the faith-based aid organisation World Vision in Afghanistan under the Taliban and Cox’s Bazaar in Bangladesh, where 1.1 million Rohingya Muslims fled the military regime in Myanmar/Burma. 
She was in Australia recently with the Micah Women’s Network.
GUEST: 
Ms. Asuntha Charles is National Director for World Vision Solomon Islands and World Vision International