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World Service,01 May 2000,28 mins

Reformers and Conservatives go to the polls in Iran

Focus on Faith

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Religious reformers and conservatives vie for supremacy in the run-up to the second round of voting in the Iranian elections. Also in this programme: Bible translation societies meet in Kenya and resolve to translate part of the Bible into 500 local sub-Saharan languages by 2025; the Catholic nuns who want to do away with the solely male authority in the Church; the growing popularity of a Jewish purification ritual; a new translation of the 10th-century Anglo-Saxon Christian poem, Dream of the Rood; and the religious singers exploring the religious roots of rap.

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