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Monasteries and Miracles

An unholy Row over plans by the Egyptian government to build a new tourism mega project at the foot of Mount Sinai. And what do you define as a miracle?

An Unholy Row at the foot of Mount Sinai over plans by the Egyptian government to build a new tourism mega project including luxury hotels, villas and shopping bazaars.
What affect will it have on the Greek Orthodox Monastery of St Katherine, home to one of the most important libraries in Christendom and the Bedouin tribes that work there.
Audrey talks to John Grainger who ran the EU project that developed the area as a UNESCO protectorate. We also visit the Sunday Sequence archive from when we visited the monastery in 2008.

Do you believe in miracles? What do you define as a miracle? Are they simply a matter of faith or do we need a new definition for the 21st century? Audrey talks to Sarah Shaw -a Buddhist and fellow of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, Ian Hutchinson, Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Massimo Faggiolio- Professor in Historical and Contemporary Ecclesiology at the Loyola Institute at Trinity College Dublin.

And if you are a person of faith, does that faith influence how you view climate change? Yes, say researchers at Queens University who have been crunching the data from the Northern Ireland Life and Times survey and share their findings with us.

55 minutes

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Sun 14 Sep 2025 08:05

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  • Sun 14 Sep 2025 08:05