the church is full every saturday that's unusual for us. going down to 12 noon every saturday it's time for newman song. it's refreshing it focuses me a kind of meditation what does the demand is becoming a fixed part of my week stand because it's so beautiful girls and for. this. new song is a short church service mostly sung at a very high standard for many it's a spiritual as well as the musical experience. when relict of course there are wonderful churches in the city and things happen there that some people can't even imagine. going on the. earth and it. was. her. response event to standing as a vocal ensemble made up of professional singers. they perform for free on saturdays because they love the project it's a creative challenge every new song service is unique. it's going to. be. clicking this one my usually get a score on the weekend before so we have time to prepare a lot of the 8 singers don't meet up until friday evening when they were harassed for 2 or 3 hours and then again from 10 on half cost the next morning. and then it's

this church. but of course a professional singers can't commit themselves to sing every saturday so we have a pool of 36 from which we can always draw 8 singers. the. whole of the song and since very modern. some people think it's beautiful others find it strange opinion and certainly different but it has its own atmosphere the. new song is a form of checks or service but apart from a short reading there are no spoken words. everything is sung including the press including the lord's prayer. i think that's very special because it can get you into a kind of contemplated flow. i think that's how religion was supposed to be. carl works come from the entire range of sacred christian music over the centuries from gregorian chants to contemporary pieces. for regular church services and for most amateur singers it would be too difficult the its great music that is often neglected for that reason but here it's being celebrated . the. it all started with a few music enthusiastic in october 2008 now hundred

i was the pastor -- at elmhurst methodist church and he was the pastor at hillside presbyterian church. down the street was allen temple baptist church. the pastor at that time was dr. j alfred smith senior. he was the president of the east clergy. father jay matthews who we lost not long ago was the vice president. i was second vice presd hugh was secretary. we were mentored by the great senioralhe did. junior, i met later and had the privilege of marrying. junior and his wife, elaine. they reminded me of thatlast ar and 40 some years now. that i moved to fairfield about 8 years ago and heard a gog on dr. jackie. dr. jackie will preach the paint off the sanctuary. so i was there in fairfield and one friday night i came to the good friday services. at beaver memorial. >> oh, wow! >> she did leave some paint on the sanctuary but it was definitely a dynamic, electrifying message. so today, we are honored to have the senior pastor of allen temple baptist church. the first elected pastor, a woman pastor, senior pastor of allen temple, reverend dr. jaclyn thompson. it is great to have you.

it acts on behalf of the orthodox church the name 40 times 40 refers to the $600.00 churches that were said to exist in moscow before the revolution former hooligans and martial artists comprise the armed wing of the orthodox church. the group holds president putin in high esteem and claims to act. in russia's interest these scenes show 40 times 40 s violent intervention turf. in their own way they demonstrate the growing power of the russian orthodox church. we meet members of the group. one of its leaders invited us to a church. in the basement there practicing martial arts. beforehand they also pray here. for this sort of symphony of welcome. if you will the little. boy to come. very soon to say this is you've seen with her the play gets us to with one of the scenes are going to flip national solution a dozen the group is comprised of a colorful mix of students police officers and i.t. experts like. twice a week they gather here to train after work. for the family so let's go. first out and keep moving. you know. what tells us that to defend their conservative faith they need to be

do you attend physical church as well as vr church? i do not.my home. so yes, i only attend here. this is actually my first time. i am used to physical churches. i have autism and i am really sensitive to sounds and all people around me. right now i think most of the people are muted so you don't hear all the sounds around you, so it is way less tiring and it is really nice. so thank you jesus for another year of vr church. europe vr church. usa and australia. vr church world. thank you for leading us now through 2020, amen. amen, everyone. she really was there. tech to the rescue. you are watching bbc news. in the uk, the fashion chain primark is the latest in a string of high street retailers to temporarily shut up shop. it's cancelling all future orders and is expected to close all of it's its 189 stores from tonight. here's our business correspondent katy austin. there have been queues at wholesalers and a spike in online shopping. amazon has struggled to keep up with demand for household staples and medical supplies. but non—food shops whic

the church buildings. another thing about the structure of the church, these walls would have been covered with these amazing frescos. if we come around the corner here, we can see a segment of that fresco that has been reproduced here on the wall. and this is a reproduction. it's done in the 1940s, 1950s the thereabouts. while it is not original, the design and the colors are original. so, if you can imagine, all of these walls here would have been covered with frescos. and a fresco is this wall decoration where the colors the pigments are applied to the plaster when the plaster is still wet, still fresh, still fresco. and so, it was that meant that they were working on just a small segment at a time. apply the plaster, apply the pigment and go on to the next section. yeah. so it was -- that had to have been something to see when all of these flat surfaces would have been covered with frescos like this. so here we are at the aqua duct for the mission esecia the irrigation canal. it was this whole system o

churches have called on people to avoid touching or kissing religious objects some churches have started to lie stream this sunday mass and easter celebrations will most likely happen without any worshippers a few 100 meters from there at the western wall daily jewish worship has also changed tapes separate groups of worshipers gatherings of more than 10 people are forbidden and access to the holy site has now been further restricted only jewish residents of the old city are allowed in the al aksa compound one of the holiest sites in islam has been closed by the islamic religious authorities to keep worshipers safe in other mosques people have been asked to pray at a safe distance from each other or to pray at home unprecedented times even for an ancient city like to. get more. religious fast correspondent martin welcome martin how is the muslim world coping with coronavirus restrictions when it comes to friday press. well there are a lot of communities sort of across the muslim world that have essentially food. on hold so. by and large i mean the understanding is and we have reports fro

well to protect the church forest itself and secondly we have to replicate the experience of the church to our community. the monies have created new partnerships with local communities and schools tara gave them a primary school the next to the ministry is one of them. were supported to collapse with different farmer tours and various forests siddhis and. city biggest by themselves and drama and poetry sessions a part of the environmental education. in the 2 years since the church community project was founded they have managed to create 3 plantations in the school grounds . there's a lot of bad luck with that they have learned that in the trees it is important for life trees to be oxygen and. also bring green time as well as preventing soil erosion. that my knowledge thought about look at the. project is always intended to improve the living standards of local people so as to reduce over dependence on existing forests resource says. with additional funding from a german protest and aid organization $25.00 women here each received 3 sheep. some have since grown 2 heads of nearly 10 ani

the meeting point in st nicholas church. city guide karen choiceless shows tourists the focal points of the events of autumn $989.00 she knows what she's talking about because she took part in the monday demonstrations. during the 1980 s. the monday prayers drew more and more people who no longer agreed with the social developments in this part of germany the communist east. in order to understand what happened back then the group heads for the form of contemporary history. that provides a comprehensive picture of the division and the unification of germany. the origins of the s.c.d. the ruling east german communist party. daily life and how the state owned enterprises operated. the fall of the berlin wall in 1909 opened the way to freedom it also meant the loss of a home and earned that identity topics the foreign consciously focus upon. it as we know this hour. this is why it isn't called a museum but a forum. we wish to initiate discussion about this it's a great deficit that we don't talk to each other instead everyone h

alyssa harrington is live at the big church. >> reporter: the bay church in concord is one of those churches were sometimes thousands of people attend on sundays. this is going to be a big change for a lot of the worshipers. one thing that the bay church is doing is they're offering drive-through service. they are also going online. this dry through option is something that the church has been offering for several years on weekdays but now it is being strongly encouraged to prevent further spread of coronavirus. attendees can participate at home as well by watching a livestream. >> i am going to really miss all the people in sunday school , all of the people that i sit with in church. we just have such a good time together. we love each other. it is going to be difficult in that regard but it will be nice knowing they are all participating in worship. >> reporter: several churches will stay open for sunday service. this includes alan temple in oakland. i notice went out to the church community on their facebook page that tells people they have been depleting the church and they advise anyone

it is still an active church and because today we do abide by the separation of church and state in the national park service, does not maintain the building. another thing about the structure of the church, these walls would have been covered with amazing frescoes. if we come around the corner here, we can see a segment of that fresco that has been reproduced here on the wall. this is a reproduction, done in the 1940's and 1950's, and while it is not original, the design and the colors are original. if you can imagine all of these walls would have been covered with frescoes. a fresco is this wall decoration where the colors and the pigments are applied to the plaster when the plaster is still wet, still fresh. still fresco. that meant they were working on a small segment at a time. they would apply the plaster and then the pigment and go to the next section. that had to have been something to see when all of these flat surfaces would have been covered within these frescos like this. so here we are at the aqueduct for the mission. it was the irrigation canal and so the system was this w

might spread through that believe it's gathered there in the church but in one church in the usa to maryland a catholic priest wanted to fill his pastoral duties to the church members and he got from virus testing of all things listen to this paul yes so i saw on the news that they have this they're doing drive through testing in south korea for people. and that was a better way to keep infection for her so why not do the same thing with confessions. so you can confess and you don't even have to leave you cut off at this particular church yes you can so you wind down the window and you talk to the priests the church member tells the priest about the sins they committed and the priest forgives them from a seat a safe distance away normally the church member talks the priest from behind a screen and there's little bits of anonymity involved so the father scott whole month he offers to wear a blindfold if the parishioner wants that but you know once the lockdowns are lifted who knows what our religious practices are going to look like a wonderful have to wear a face mask along with the blindfol

the man he appearing go to a news conference at one of the church's facilities outside of seoul and throughout the whole statement apologizing profusely for his church's role at the center of this outbreak saying that he it was something that he's very sorry about saying that they are taking now all possible measures to try to sort this out he never thought that this would happen that they are cooperating completely with the or thorough te's because of course more than half of all of the cases of the coronavirus here in south korea are indeed members of this church now it is regarded by other more mainstream churches here as more like acting like a sect under secretive sect at that with a number of different groups here calling on the orthorexic is calling on prosecutors to investigate the church for possible charges of homicide even though and also hiding the names of its members the church itself says that it is cooperating fully it's provided contact details of all of its members so that the authorities can follow up and health officials can check with them to see if they are car

church with links to a mass outbreak of infections. one person has been injured as for the pings from a strike to end a hostage standoff in the capital on a below is outside the shopping center. an estimated 30 people are being held hostage by what you mentioned a disgruntled former employee of the mall a former security guard currently this security guard was removed from his job not long ago and he encouraged his colleagues his former colleagues to join him in sort of a mutiny against his former employers but none of them joined him so he decided today he would come to the wall and he would open fire iraq's prime minister designate has withdrawn his candidacy a month off to his appointment he says politicians were obstructing his efforts to form a government earlier parliament failed to approve his cabinet for the 2nd time in a week. before john has ended his campaign for the u.s. democratic presidential nomination ahead of super tuesday the judge told supporters in indiana he no longer a sore chance of winning he defeated bernie san

people will bring up is the catholic church, the catholic church has separated itself from society like a lot of religion and it became very insularity. it prevented and knowing the sexual abuse problems that were occurring within the catholic church, the huge difference between the catholic church and other religions and other groups that engage in wrongdoing is that we can use our civilian laws and our social and cultural to confront the problems within those institutions whether their business or religion. but the military has its own law and is resistant to anybody from the outside stepping in. let me give one more example, i think this will be useful, in 2015 and army gunship attacked

well to protect the church forest itself and secondly we have to replicate the experience of the church to our community. the monks have created new partnerships with local communities and schools tara gave them primary school next to the ministry is one of them. we supported just called the collapse was different pharma tours and various forests see this and the city biggest by them said this drama and poetry sessions are part of the environmental education. in the 2 years since the church community project was founded they have managed to create 3 plantations in the school grounds . that's a lot of bad luck with little or no we have learned that if the trees it is important for life trees to be oxygen and. also bring green time as well as preventing soil erosion. that my knowledge i thought i'd look at the. project is almost intended to improve the living standards of local people so as to reduce over the crandon some existing forest resources. with additional funding from a german protest and aid organization $25.00 women here each received 3 sheep. some have since grown 2 heads of n

few people, least of all church hill, thought that would happen. but it was with some trepidation that he returned to london in mid-conference for the declaration of the vote. some in his entourage confident that they would be returning with a triup fantly reelected prime minister even left their luggage behind. bad decision. for it was not to be. the british people exhausted by war determined to punish the party of pre-war appeasement, and eager to build a new kind of country, voted for labor in overwhelming numbers. the prime minister who had led them to victory was now shown the door. churchill was deeply hurt by the rejection, but with characteristic resilience and resolve, he threw himself into writing his memoirs. making good on his promise that history would be kind to him, in the process, earning himself a fortune and securing his family's future. he was far less keen on the details of his new post as leader of the opposition. a fess burden for the achievement of his fondest wish, a triumphant return to downing street. he may have been out

he donated the land for them to build this church on. was he ever going to set foot in this church? at that point in time, had you asked him, he would have said no way, and he wouldn't have said it that cleanly. but i think it was probably god speaking to him saying, i saved your life at kelly's ford, you should've died. and tom battled the demons of ptsd. i will talk a little more about that in just a minute. he had the land to build the church on. he had some timber on his property. he had the trees cut down and he had the trees cut down, hauled to a sawmill, cut into boards, and he donated the lumber to build the church. little did he know that a few years later in 1872 he would meet a young lady who probably saved his life. this in the middle is tom's bible, this is the cover. king james version. his great-granddaughter had that. she let me borrow the bible and i went through every page, from the old testament and the new testament. there were a few pages where tom had made a mark on certain passages of scripture. then i came to second samuel chapter 22 verse seven. i don't know

that comes from the zion church, the freedom church. asantewa: thinking about how sort of blind she was to division of freedom. it is an equal opportunity thing for her in the way we think about it in the 21st century. karen: if you are not free at everything you do, you are not truly free. we all need to recognize that. if our votes don't count, we are not free. if our votes are suppressed, we are not free. if we don't have people opportunity to pursue our better selves, we are not free. it is just that plain. she was a moderating force for those who are very racist -- those who are part of the tubman -- this is what makes things real for me. when things like this -- [laughter] asantewa: it's ok. karen: she was a moderating force. she was not someone who stepped into suffrage to make a complicated situation more complicated. she was a person able to step in and say, look, it is not perfect. here are the reasons why i should not even join this movement, this suffrage movement. the women's rights movement. here is why i must join. when i

and of course, packed churches all over the country means packed churches in the state of new york. in the city of new york. where donald trump grew up and lived his entire life until he moved into the white house. donald trump has absolutely no power whatsoever so send anyone back to work or church in this country. donald trump has absolutely no power to tell any businesses in this country to reopen. but he pretends he does have that power and much of the news media doesn't seem to realize donald trump has no such powers. donald trump has shut down nothing in this country, therefore there is nothing that donald trump can reopen. every governor who has shut down all nonessential businesses in their states, he ever one of them, including the republican governors, are ignoring every word that donald trump says about reopening the country by easter. as he puts it. lieutenant governor of massachusetts announced he's extending closing of all schools to may 4th. easter is april 12th. republican governor of moo massachusetts is not listening to donald trump. the republican governor of idah

liz: or church. lauren: cancel it. stuart: the markre were picturer the weekend of closed churches, with the vicar or the pastor -- liz: the vicar? stuart: let's just call them all ministers, shall we. ashley: make your point. let's move on. stuart: an impassioned sermon from the pulpit and no one there. isn't that something? you can watch online. at my church you can watch online and i did. fascinating stuff. dow jones average is now down 1500 points. nasdaq is down 460. s&p down 58. would you believe that is a comeback from where we were before. want to go back to doc siegel if he's still there. you there? >> i'm here. this is what you call a remote panel. stuart: it's not a panel, doctor. don't ever i donuse that word.

as far as the church is concerned i want to say this. i don't know if churches need to be online. i don't know if you have to basically be listening to ainsley, but i'll tell you what we do need. we need prayer, we need to come together and need a spirit of hope and faith and courage, so however we get that, we need to have it whether it's in an actual church or whether we do it online. steve: all right, marsha e-mailed us. is it safe to eat takeout prepared by chefs and handled by other people and she worries i don't know anything about the health status of the person who makes it. >> so that's a good point. they are wearing gloves now and i've been thinking about this myself since restaurants close. there's a lot of moving parts there and it wouldn't be my first choice. if you have no other choice you have to get your food somewhere right? i prefer that you prepare it yourself at home, and that you have control over it. still you have to go to a grocery to get your food but there's less moving parts, a much more favor in preparation at home. brian: but yet so the heart goes out

the church that of course. would be. well martin how would see you know the catholic community you mentioned community they're already taken to the online masses and the closure of the vatican that to the public. well i think that the pope's expression i mean the sense that he's in a cave the sense of isolation is one that we see running through pretty much you know all religious communities including the church we have had some priests that have a need to the broken the core unseen and for that they had been they had been trying so there are at least a couple of cases in which we hear about these things. at the same time it is also clear that many of us who are sort of going through the situation in europe. including here in berlin where we are i mean people have turned to our online gatherings or online communities and the church is no exception so people are finding each other through through only. through online event or through online meetings and this is sort of one of the reasons why we're not seeing sort of the r