Sunday Folgen

Award-winning fitness instructor Lavina Mehta is doing special exercise classes online for the elderly South Asian community in this country. She is joined every day by her 72-year-old mother-in-law Nishaben Mahendra Mehta who translates Lavina’s instructions into Gujarati and does all the exercises as well.This week, President Trump announced that the Navajo Nation - which includes vast stretches of land in northern Arizona, New Mexico and Utah - will receive more than 600 million dollars of federal government aid. The reservation, which is home to about 175,000 people, has been one of the hardest-hit areas in the United States for its rate of Covid-19 infection. Joe Boland from the charity ‘Catholic Extension‘, which provides support for Native American tribes tells William about the problems they are facing.Post pandemic many say that the Church of England will never be the same again. While their doors may be physically closed - spiritually – some believe that God is reaching into more homes than ever. Online services are booming and pulling in record numbers of participants. But when all of this is over and the doors to places of worship reopen will there still be a demand for congregations gathering via the web? William is joined by Rev Charlotte Bannister-Parker, Chaplain to the Bishop of Oxford for Online Services and the author and academic Dr Bex Lewis who studies how we interact with the digital world.Producers: Carmel Lonergan Helen LeeSeries Producer: Amanda Hancox

On VE Day 75 years ago the bells of churches and cathedrals across the country were rung in celebration. Anniversary events will be very different this year as many of them have been cancelled as people adhere to rules that prohibit mass gatherings. Using archive and contemporary recordings from some who were there in May 1945 we remember the moment when the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany to the Allied forces ended World War II in Europe.The charity Christian Aid has announced that they are projecting an annual loss of £6 million due to a fall in income because of Covid-19. They plan to furlough 20% of their staff and reduce the pay of everyone else. The cuts come as they launch their major annual fundraiser, Christian Aid Week. The charity's CEO Amanda Khozi Mukwashi debates the funding crisis facing charities that focus on international projects with Christine Allen, Director of the Catholic charity CAFOD.The Archbishop of Canterbury led the first virtual assembly for the online school, Oak National Academy this week. Another project has embraced technology to help keep school choirs performing. The Catholic Diocese of Leeds has launched daily online singing sessions for thousands of children who would usually be singing in school. Co-ordinator Tom Leech explains why music is an important part of home schooling for children in some of the most deprived areas of West Yorkshire.Ramadan is an important part of the religious calendar for muslims both spiritually and socially. Remona Aly reports on how families, friends and scholars are ensuring they keep traditions and customs associated with the Holy month alive.Producers: Amanda Hancox David CookPhoto: © Dean and Chapter of Westminster Abbey

As protests to end the lockdown continue across some states in America, Edward Stourton speaks to two Christian pastors in Virginia who have responded differently to the stay-at-home order.Our correspondent in India reports on claims that Hindu nationalists are exploiting Covid-19 to ramp up prejudice against Muslims.Mud Orange – a new ‘creative agency’ launched at the start of this year's Ramadan - is, according to its founders, the first in the Western world to specialise in targeting the Muslim consumer, while aiming to reshape the public image of Muslims.The BFI’s 'Jewish Britain on film' is a free-to-view online collection of films which gives an insight into the life of British Jews over the last century. It brings together the earliest surviving depictions of Jewish characters in British cinema as well as documentaries and homemade cine films. Continuing our chaplains series, Fr. Dan Mason, National Catholic Chaplain to Gypsies, Roma and Travellers explains the issues affecting those communities during the pandemic.With a wide variety of online worship now available to anyone anywhere, Sunday offers a guide to where you can surf the services that meet your liturgical tastes: beginning with Protestant denominations.And intensive care doctor Mark Tan shares his ‘Telephone Lament for Coronavirus’.Producers: Dan Tierney Helen Lee