The Religion and Ethics Report - Separate stories podcast
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The Religion and Ethics Report - Separate stories podcast
The Religion and Ethics Report, where religion and ethics meet news and current affairs in Australia and around the world.
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How can we help to bring an end to global slavery?
As Australians begin Christmas and summer breaks, around the world 50 million people will toil in modern slavery. That’s according to the Internationa...
Cronulla riots: a clash of cultures or a drunken brawl?
A famous Australian beach erupts in violence. A clash of cultures and religion or a drunken brawl?
Graeme Cole joins us from Cronulla Beach on...
Cronulla: A clash of cultures and religion or a drunken brawl?
As Australians begin Christmas and summer breaks, around the world 50 million people will toil in modern slavery.
Preview of some big events in the Christian world for 2026
Religion specialist Noel Debien with a preview of religious stories in 2026 - including the consistory in Rome in first week of January, plus the inst...
A major study points to a stressed Catholic clergy
Australia’s Catholic priests are deeply involved in their local communities and have a strong sense of purpose. But many are also lonely, at times ash...
Pope Leo visit to Turkiye and Lebanon wraps up with a message of peace and unity
Pope Leo is wrapping up his first overseas trip as pontiff.
He’s been in Turkiye and Lebanon and he’s used the trip to drive home a message abo...
How stressed are Catholic clergy right now?
Australia’s Catholic priests are deeply involved in their local communities and have a strong sense of purpose.
But many are also lonely, at ti...
The deep Chicago roots of Pope Leo
While Pope Leo uses his Middle East trip to tackle global conflicts, in the country of his birth, the Church is increasingly at odds with the Trump ad...
Is the new under 16 social media ban going to work?
Australia’s landmark ban on people under 16 using social media begins next month. It’s the first time any government in the world has used a ban to sh...
Fractures in the Indian Hindu community in New York
Indian Americans are one of the fastest growing immigrant communities in the US.
But a fracture has opened in the community over the role of Hi...
Attacks on faith leaders at immigrant detention facilities in the US
One of the Trump administration’s most divisive policies is the mass raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, or ICE.
About 65,000...
Social media access to children: will the new laws work?
Australia’s landmark ban on people under 16 using social media begins next month.
It’s the first time any government in the world has used a ba...
President Trump takes aim at one of his favourite targets — Ivy League universities
For Donald Trump’s administration, there are a few more inviting targets than America’s universities.
Ivy League institutions, including Harvar...
When Pope Leo goes to Lebanon can he help the Christian community there stay safe?
Pope Leo flies east next week on his first overseas visit as pontiff. He goes first to Türkiye, a country where the Christian population has dwindled...
Pope Leo flies east to Türkiye and Lebanon: Can he help stabilise the fragile religious peace?
Pope Leo flies east next week on his first overseas visit as pontiff. He goes first to Türkiye, a country where the Christian population has dwindled...
Rabbis help Palestinians facing attacks from radical and armed Israeli settlers.
While the shaky ceasefire in Gaza dominates the news from Israel, according to the UN, radical Jewish settlers in the Palestinian West Bank have commi...
Armageddon and the Antichrist in Sillicon Valley: the world according to Peter Thiel
The second richest man in the world and tech bro extraordinaire, Peter Thiel, has lately been giving lectures on Armageddon and the Antichrist to rapt...
Which are the Pope's favourite movies?
Hollywood comes to the Vatican this weekend, as Pope Leo hosts a bevy of actors, actresses, directors, and producers, including Australian Cate Blanch...
Rabbis help with the Palestinian olive harvest in the West Bank
There has been an escalation of Israeli settler violence against Palestinian villagers, which include destruction of olive trees and armed incursions,...
Al Qaeda affiliate JNIM seizes power in Mali — what does this mean for Africa?
A group linked to the Al Qaeda Islamist network is closing in on the capital of Mali, in north-west Africa. This group, known as JNIM, now controls sw...
Vladimir Putin and the Orthodox church
One of the geopolitical tactics Russia has used in its war with Ukraine has been to divide opinion among the world’s Orthodox Christians.
Vladi...
Al Qaeda affiliate JNIM seizes power in Mali — what does this mean for Africa?
A group linked to the Al Qaeda Islamist network is closing in on the capital of Mali, in north-west Africa.
This group, known as JNIM, now cont...
The pain of war in Ukraine continues as an aid agency tries to meet its needs
While the tragedy of Gaza never seems to leave the headlines, the war in Ukraine dips in and out of the news.
That’s despite the past six month...
Air raid sirens, shelters and human suffering: the challenges facing an aid agency in war torn Ukraine
While the tragedy of Gaza never seems to leave the headlines, the war in Ukraine dips in and out of the news. That’s despite the past six months seein...
Did deeply held religious faith influence a high court judge?
The early 1990s was, for Catholics, a time of political ascendancy – a Catholic prime minister, governor-general, and five of the seven high court jus...
Fiji has a major HIV infection crisis
Fiji is facing an HIV crisis, with one of the fastest growing rates of infection in the Asia-Pacific.
The number of people with HIV has more th...
How can we live wisely as Christians?
How can Christians and other religious believers live out their faith when many of its principles conflict, not only with new social norms but the law...
History in the making: Pope Leo and King Charles pray together
King Charles and Pope Leo will have their first meeting this week at the Vatican.
But it will be much more than a meeting of two heads of state...
For the first time in 500 years King Charles, the head of the Church of England, and the Pope will pray together
King Charles and Pope Leo will have their first meeting this week at the Vatican. But it will be much more than a meeting of two heads of state. For t...
Past British war crimes in Palestine almost 100 years ago haunt the present
A former legal adviser to the Palestinian Authority, Victor Kattan, examines the reality of the Trump plan for Gaza.
He also discusses why an al...
How will Archbishop Mullally unite her church?
Sarah Mullally may be a historic choice as the new Archbishop of Canterbury but how will she deal with the chasm that has opened in the world-wide Ang...
Pope Leo exhorts the wealthy not to hoard
Pope Leo XIV has issued his first major statement since assuming office. In a “papal exhortation” titled I Have Loved You, he echoes Francis’s concern...
Do war crimes in Palestine by the British almost 100 years ago haunt the tenuous peace in Gaza?
Victor Kattan, former legal adviser to the Palestinian Authority, examines the reality of the Trump plan for Gaza. He also discusses why an almost 100...
Child brides and violence against women and girls
One in three girls around the world routinely experience violence, according to the United Nations.
And child marriage remains a problem for ma...
The history-making new Archbishop of Canterbury
The world’s 85 million Anglicans have a new spiritual leader, and she’s made history.
Dame Sarah Mullally is the new Archbishop of Canterbury. ...
Can the ancient Greeks help solve our university crises?
The headlines scream about a university sector in crisis.
Are they credential factories or places of pure intellectual inquiry?
For hist...
Child brides a huge global problem
One in three girls around the world routinely experience violence and many are forced into marriage, according to the United Nations. October 11 is In...
Loss of the leader of the world's 17 million Mormans
The leader of the world’s 17 million Mormons, Russell M. Nelson, has died, aged 101.
The former heart surgeon didn’t assume the role of prophet...
Why does a young US Muslim pine for the old-fashioned religious right?
Why would a liberal Muslim who spent his teenage and college years arguing against the power of Christianity in American politics now pine for the old...
Has US Christian nationalism crossed the pond to the UK?
The streets of London recently filled with thousands of protesters taking part in so-called “Unite the Kingdom” rallies.
Many objected to large-...