Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly
Episode #242
This program featured a report addressing how the US will continue to deal with foreign crisis and looked at whether the government will address other nations faced with genocide, including Sudan where over a million lives were taken for similar reasons; a cover story looking at why the American Hindu and Orthodox Jewish communities still engage in arrange marriages; and a feature on the art of pealing, or the loud ringing of bells, and visited the Washington National Cathedral, which is celebrating its 35th anniversary of the first peal of their bells. [26 minutes]
This episode has not aired in the past few months on Iowa Public Television.
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