Saudi soap sparks scandal - Ahmed Al Omran of the FT.   Impact of U.S. Foreign Aid cuts - Miriam Donohoe essay from Uganda. Religious tourism - Kevin Griffin, TU Dublin. Philippines report - Fr. Shay Cullen whose Preda Foundation is 50 years old.

Our Divine Sparks with Dearbhail McDonald offers a fresh and engaging exploration of religious and spiritual life as well as an occasionally offbeat perspective on the world of religion.

Our Divine Sparks with Dearbhail McDonald

Episode 17

1,700 years since the Council of Nicaea where fierce rivalries, power struggles, and a war of words shaped the future of Christianity. Dr. Rebecca Usherwood TCD, Kieran O’Mahony Milltown Institute and Diarmaid MacCulloch Emeritus Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University.

Epsiode 19

Episode 19

The fist millennial saint Carlo Acutis - Fr. Michael Collins.  Siofra Mulqueen reports on the mystery of the moving statues 40 years on.  Religion thriving against the odds - theologian and Vatican advisor Prof. Anna Rowlands.  Pádraig O Tuama pens his memory of Ballinspittle 1985.

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