Today, blasphemy seems like a hangover from less enlightened times.

He became known as the Luther of medicine for his reformist medical practices, but Paracelsus, who was born in Switzerland in 1493, was also a religious man.

On the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem, in a house that has been in his family for 400 years, the Sufi Sheikh, Abdul Aziz Bukhari is a beacon of hope for the future of Jewish-Muslim dialogue. Patience and a rejection of violence is the Sheik’s message, and he spreads it to his people and to others who drop in to his Sufi Centre.

In Papua New Guinea, the health care system is vastly under resourced and the contribution of church organisations to health care is vital. At a small hospital and mission station in the remote west of PNG, where the white evangelical missionaries first arrived about 60 years ago, the faith of these missionaries and the ancient Indigenous belief systems are still coming to terms with each other.

Featured on The Spirit of Things on June 1st and 3rd, the Bahai Gardens in Haifa, Israel has just been named a World Heritage Site by by UNESCO.
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Compass goes green, exploring faith and the environment.
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