Showing posts with label BBC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BBC. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
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Tuesday, April 22, 2014
BBC: 'Easter - Firework battle' at Chios VIDEO
BBC refers to the annual rouketopolemos, calling it "Firework
Battle", showing images from the spectacular traditional event.
Monday, January 20, 2014
BBC's Steve Rosenberg takes icy Russian Epiphany dip VIDEO
BBC correspondent Steve Rosenberg has braved the icy waters of Sochi for an Epiphany tradition - live on air. As part of their celebrations, Russians dive into icy lakes and rivers to cleanse themselves of sin. During a visit to the Black Sea resort of Sochi, he decided to sample the waters, live on Radio 4's Broadcasting House.
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Search for the Afghan Girl (2003) - Documentary Film - Watch FREE Full
When Steve McCurry took the picture of a young Afghan girl in a refugee camp he never knew that it was going to become the face of a nation, it has become that. From the cover of National Geographic to the hills of Afghanistan, Steve McCurry searches for the young girl that he photographed that one day....
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Friday, March 22, 2013
BBC: The Crusades (1995) - Watch FULL Movie (Former Monty Python star Terry Jones explores the history of the Crusades)
Released in 1995. 50 min.
Friday, March 15, 2013
National Geographic: Jesus - The Man (VIDEO)
He was born in a manger, died on a cross, created a new religion and became the most famous man of his age, but his life remains shrouded in mystery. History and archaeology shed light on the early experiences and forces that shaped Jesus' young life.
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
BBC: How Christianity Spread Throughout The Roman Empire (Europe) - VIDEO
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Documentary is owned by National Geographic
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
BBC: The Real Garden of Eden - Documentary (VIDEO)
Can we find the Garden of Eden? Bible scholar Dr Francesca Stavrakopoulou1 thinks so. In the final episode of her series re-examining conventional readings of the Bible, she argues that the Garden of Eden has nothing to do with the origins of humanity, but is rather a story concealing dramatic events about a particular figure in a particular place, two and half thousand years ago.
It's a revolutionary theory which challenges some of the most cherished preconceptions about Eden in both Christianity and western culture.
1.* Dr Francesca Stavrakopoulou explains why she chose to study the Bible: "It's such a fantastic and diverse collection of texts that can tell us something about the beliefs, concerns and cultures of the people who wrote them."
Sunday, January 27, 2013
National Geographic: Mysteries Of The Bible: Living in the Time of Jesus, Making a Living - VIDEO
What were the jobs like in the time of the Bible? We've certainly heard about carpenters, but what were the other ways that people made ends meet? From Nazareth to the Sea of Galilee, from the Negev Desert to Jerusalem, our host Arne Kislenko will take a look at the professions of Jesus, his disciples, and the people they passed in the marketplace. There are a few surprises in store. Arne will try his hand at being a biblical farmer, shepherd, fisherman and camel-riding merchant. The Romans occupied the lands of the Bible in the first century. What was daily life like under their rule? With the help of archaeologists, biblical experts and mules, Arne learns how the land was tilled, the taxes got collected and priests served in the Holy Temple. For Jesus as well as for people weve never heard of, it was a time fraught with reward and peril, life and death...while trying to make a living....
Sunday, December 30, 2012
BBC: Athens Is Only EU Capital Without a Muslim Ctr.
At Friday prayers and across Athens, Muslims gather in underground, cramped prayer rooms.
The makeshift facilities are illegal but this huge community faces no other option. Athens, a metropolis on the edge of the Muslim world, is one of the few EU capitals without a mosque.
Since Greece gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1832, no government has allowed a mosque to be built in the city. It was seen by many as "un-Greek" - out of place in a country in which much more than 90% of the population are Orthodox Christians.
But as Greece has become the main entry point for migrants to the EU, its Muslim population has swelled.
Some estimates place the number of Muslims in Athens alone at around 300,000, in a city with a population of around five million, and the clamour for an official place of prayer is growing.
"It is a very big tragedy for us Muslims that there is no mosque here," says Syed Mohammad Jamil from the Pakistan-Hellenic Society.
"Greece produced democracy and civilisation and the respect of religion - but they don't respect our Muslims to provide us with a regular, legal mosque."
One of the Friday worshippers, Ashifaq Ahmad, says: "I feel somehow cut off from society.
"When we have a celebration, there is nowhere proper for us to get together. Society is not accepting us."
Barracks plan
Pressure on the government to provide a secure, protected mosque has grown as the neo-fascist Golden Dawn party continues to rise.
The party's deputy, Ilias Panagiotaros, told me earlier in the year that landmines should be placed on Greece's border with Turkey, saying: "If immigrants die trying to jump into our country, that's their problem."Its members stand accused of beating immigrants and vandalising some of the underground prayer rooms.
Now perhaps the call for a place of worship may be answered.
A disused army barracks near the city centre has been chosen as a site for the capital's first mosque.
Behind heavy gates lie old buildings, broken glass and rubble strewn across the floors. The crumbling shells currently there would be torn down, making space for a mosque that could accommodate 500 people.
If it is built, Muslims entering would catch sight of a small church next door, the two religions finally operating officially shoulder to shoulder.
The government insists the project will go ahead, but similar plans have been promised in the past - only to fall foul of political infighting.
And the financial crisis could still blow the idea off course. A government struggling to afford schoolbooks or healthcare may find it hard to announce 1m euros (£814,000; $1.3m) for a state-funded mosque.
"In the past, there was a fear in some segments of Greek society about constructing a mosque but we must overcome that fear," says Stratos Simopoulos, the secretary general of the ministry for development.
"The financial crisis is a problem. The government has other priorities for now, but this mosque must be constructed and we may be in a position to start the process in a few months."
I ask whether he is committed to the plan.
"Of course", he replies, "because it's not my commitment - it's a commitment of the Greek state."
And yet there is still resistance within the country.
'Islamic tyranny'
The Greek Church has warmed to the mosque idea but some senior ecclesiastical figures remain opposed.
In a packed service in St Nicolas's Church in Piraeus, just outside Athens, the strength of religious devotion is clear.
Members of the congregation kiss the icons and repeatedly cross themselves. Orthodox Christianity goes to the heart of what it means to be Greek and the Bishop here, Seraphim, says his nation must preserve its identity.
"Greece suffered five centuries of Islamic tyranny under Turkish rule and building a mosque would offend the martyrs who freed us," he says.
Greece, he adds, "does not hate anyone" but he believes that "most Muslims have come here illegally" to, as he puts it, "Islamise Europe".
I put it to him that his position appears Islamophobic, out of touch with a multicultural European Union, and his response may betray other prejudices too.
"We are not a multicultural country," the Greek bishop says. "We are one Greek nation and everything else is an invention of the 'new order' and of Zionism. They are trying to corrupt our character."
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