christian pop bands make christian music that much is clear but not all religious musicians necessary sing about religion at least not in germany and this opic spot special we want to know how much when it is there in german pop music. that. might. have lost power and headlined this event in stuttgart to mark the five hundredth anniversary of the reformation the electro pop duo who are also a couple of stage have performed at church events in the past how important is christianity in their lives there's a deposit you know this is the way we grew up and how we were bringing the situation with us. so i think all songs transport a certain sort of friendly start for the music i mean it's important for me to have something to hold on to something to believe in. them i think that faith and organized religion are two different hands that shouldn't get mixed up for me it's important to have faith and i live it in my everyday life as one person about was never ever. in germany religion is a private matter and not a game a should griese he works as a radio host for cologne's catholic doma the a

"oh, can christian play with us?" and we really had to find the balance of what was too much. >> mark pulisic: and i just think, what we just did differently was, made sure that we didn't put him in a structured environment all the time. he played for one team. he would practice twice a week and play a game on the weekend. >> alfonsi: that sounds pretty normal. >> mark pulisic: yeah. >> alfonsi: you hear the stories about these parents who are doing thousands of miles in their car, taking their kids everywhere, special coaches, special diets, backyard workouts. >> mark pulisic: doesn't work. >> alfonsi: you didn't do that with christian? you didn't keep him on a gluten free, fat-free diet? >> mark pulisic: no. after games, we were more slurpees and doritos, right? >> kelley pulisic: oh, yeah. >> alfonsi: the pulisics decided to see if christian could cut it in one of the most competitive leagues in the world. at 16, he signed with dortmund, a club that has a reputation for building stars. why do you have to come to ge

is all about the christian faith. the musicians belong to and even jellicoe free church community in leipsic they want to praise the lord through their songs with catching up beat pop music. heavy metal band stocking feet are another german group rocking the christian tunes for more than twenty years the band has been proving that expressions of faith and heavy metal can go together satan doesn't get a look in here. just give jess unger hawked as a who is good to talk to his kids about their jazz bands for the band and even heavy metal bands in the christian music scene. the audience is relatively small though so record sales don't go into the millions for coffee again it's a if you will but there are definitely fans out there who are loyal and enthusiastic. guy stuff. so what makes these bands so special to fans. we asked concert goers at the store scott reformation even if they all would. i think in germany there's a growing trend that more people are identifying with a certain faith and want to live that. we don't

come on, christian. come on. caitlyn. [applause] i think kaitlyn and christian will agree this field trip is their best home work assignment yet. right? what do you think, christian? he said yes. i'm told recently christian asked his grandfather what exactly is the congressional medal of honor? that is a wonderful question, christian. it's the award given to america's bravest heroes who earn our freedom with their sacrifice. those who receive the medal of honor went above and beyond the call of duty to protect their fellow service members and defend our nation. caitlyn and christian, you are about to witness your grandpa receive our nation's highest military honor and america's about to witness captain gary michael rose, recognized as the true american hero that he is. a patriot who never gives up, never gives in and always stands strong for god, for family and for country. mike, we honor you. we thank you. we salute you. and with hearts full of admiration and pride, we present you with the congressional medal of honor. a

thirty years more which christiane had dried the danes into proved a political desire. asked of of the country even so the king was seen as a military hero. move to leave wounded so his retinue believed the king collapsed upon the deck of his ship the trinity would be beheld him with frozen with horror but christiane stood up once again found his shattered eyes and called upon his men to fight the good fight. in king christiane's de ros kildow was merely the seat of the diocese it was no longer the residence of the danish kings as it had been from the eleventh to fifteenth century as nowadays well skilled is effectively a suburb of copenhagen visit has come mainly to see the viking ships that were raised from the field and restored the bells in the margaret tower still strike daily as they always have at ten at three at five and at seven o'clock. the danish monarchs and no longer involved in the business of government and have abandoned some of the old pump as the most recent tomb dating from one thousand nine hundred five shows it is privilege enough to be interred in

only spanish because a group of christian missionaries demanded an end to. the survivors were interned in concentration camps. was the official designation of the prisons where they were held as slaves. that was committed that one hundred eleven years ago has left some very deep scar us. emotionally psychologically physically and otherwise on the overhead of people. we were deprived of our means of livelihood. the land which is the very basis of one livelihood. in the hundreds of thousands were confiscated. we then he means of livelihood. taken away. at the end of their three day journey. and his sons have arrived in for the annual gathering known as herero day. the event commemorates the hero chiefs and in particular some well madero who resisted the german occupation achieve great some with the traditional blessing. of the commemoration last three days the man when military style fantasy uniforms in the german manner as they say and the women wear the traditional dress of the herrero it's an occasion of national pride but also overshadowed by colonial hist

the muslim countries so let's get it right christian culture christian values your by by the christian bank holidays and the christian laws. that are just on the point is there a chance that muslim public holidays could undermine germany's christian legacy and perhaps even start conflict if one religion is opposed to the other's holidays. yeah i mean those are the arguments that have been made that there is some kind of a threat to germany's christian legacy let's be absolutely clear immigrants who come into european nations we are seven hundred fifty million inhabitants strong we are the strongest economic powerhouse in the world scene i think there's plenty of room there are plenty of jobs plenty of opportunity to integrate what we're really talking about its contribution now there is no threat let's be absolutely clear there is no threat to a christian heritage of europe however europe has always been apart from its darkest times arguments like my fellow commentator here is making which is to separate people and say you must assimilate into society your own holidays your personal fr

it chief the formation of a new christian state garia. it was officially part of the ottoman empire but in reality russia had to say that remaining in montenegro and serbia finally achieved independence. was the end herzegovina was austria-hungary is counterweight to the russian influence in the balkans abdulhamid empire lost more than two hundred thousand square kilometers in europe. the real story of the whole epoch it's not only the story of the loss of ottoman territory but is therefore the story of the loss of homes of autumn and muslims and it's the story of the displacement of millions of people and often very very violent displacement and when to people start thinking about refugees as an international problem and what we can see is that the crisis of eight hundred seventy six to seventy eight maybe together with the early expansion of the russian empire around the black sea which would also created hundreds of thousands of muslim refugees this is the beginning of the modern age of the refugee. after the war and the humiliation in

was my husband not my great christians are the ones who helped my rowing process. i pray to god they didn't extend aeration if you will not join groups like isis. we'll show them what happened to. that around them and. we'll show them how isis destroyed. government officials say it will cost more than a billion u.s. dollars to rebuild iraq and that it could take years so down and many others warn if their city is left in ruins it could stoke further anger and resentment leading more to join. the government to support us in rebuilding our city this would produce. a thing hundreds. of their own this i'm afraid that if the government. i mean out of the city. but is it too late to stop isis ambitions in the region that i don't like them. and they. may. stop one. more than me. was the fellow going in among. us. it took five months of intense fighting to recapture murari. almost a thousand having killed the city flatter. it's unclear how long it will be before people can return home and what the future of this troubled region holes what is clear is that the fight against

so talk about the birth of the christian right and its trajectory? >> i think it was preceded by an upsurge of fundamentalism in the south. it was the second upsurge of the first upsurge in the south and virtually the same moment in industrialization than the first one had. and as we all know, that predates cultural disruptions of all kinds and people come into the cities who have sort of the traditional evangelical belief. they find themselves under attack. liberals find themselves under attack in things like that, but what was different from billy graham in this case is they planned to make a mask movement and graham never did. he was intended to have his own relationships with the powerful. but this came up from the grassroots are having totally novel ideas. there's all kinds of things that preceded it like terrible textbook wars in virginia, the upsurge of conservatism in southern california, all kinds of things and then the issues began to appear. if she was most of them having to do with the resentment and you react to 1950s with the kids to pr

martin luther five hundred years ago the rebellious monk redefined what it meant to be a christian. down to the smallest detail of daily routine much of what was considered typically protestant back then has come to represent what is typically german now industriousness social welfare taking joy in work reading serious music but also self-denial and submission to authority. luther the saint the superstar the outlaw the enraged citizen and also an anti-semite so who are we talking about when we talk about luther. martin luther is a superstar in his adopted home of it and barack. there is luther schnapps. luther bread and of course luther's bible. his image is everywhere. but the reformation he started five hundred years ago we were breaks way beyond the towns boundaries. the seismic events litter set in motion changed the entire world. but what made them possible in the first place. i would think. with across the mood or perhaps better the spirit of the time because everything he said and thought was already in the air so what he needed was a great voice a voice like a trumpet and th

that christian activist church has made russian id. others see it as an unholy alliance blaming the author dogs church for everything from the war in ukraine to providing cover for intolerance and repression. with a stolen africa. discouraged or even named because it's so what lies behind these ever closer ties increasingly evocative of russia's pre-code meanest imperial past. president putin's our leader that. given to us by good. clues to the synchronicity between church and state can be found in most corners of putin's russia take the mike nissen by the ministry situated on an island in the middle of lake led doga europe's largest despite its remoteness thousands of pilgrims come to the sacred monastery which according to legend stands on the site where st andrew planted a cross. but these days the island is also home to a private waterside dutch are you. used by president putin strictly off limits. it's a sign of the times since the collapse of the ceviche union the russian orthodox church the scene a dramatic rise in its food chai

christian a few years later married matilda. matilda was a different person, she was younger and she probably came from a higher level of society. she was the sister of the treasurer of a brewery. when they got married, they ended up building the house together, and matilda is the one who designed these rooms. she is the one who probably worked with the interior designers. you can he she had an eye towards leveraging them a little further along in society, just based on the way these rooms were outfitted. moving to dupont circle and building a house here was sort of the i have arrived statement for the heurichs. the neighborhood was a brand-new neighborhood at the time, it really only started in the 1870's, and it wasn't popular at first then all of the wealthy people -- a lot of people who had made it in the gold rush built houses on the circle, and the heurichs, they had money, but they were middle-class to a certain extent, and this house was built in 1894, it was late victorian but it was sort of right at the edge of what wa

discussed along with the age old issue of christian minorities living in the arab world. participants at the doha institute for higher studies included university professors political scientists researchers and writers they say it's in the interest of everyone including the muslim majority to address religious persecution but you can't just separate they show the question from the rest of the region the problem of the money or not i think is actually the problem of the majority that people don't have civil rights christians don't have. civil rights because muslims don't have civil rights still so actually there is a problem of democracy as it is there and that isn't christians have lived in the middle east since the birth of christianity two thousand years ago during that time they suffered several phases of inequality and marginalization a number of christians in the middle east has fallen during the last fifteen years and are fought to constitute less than three to four percent of the population compared to twenty percent a century ago everyone here agrees there is no m

christian peasants took up arms all across the balkans irregular ottoman soldiers. brutally put down the results they committed countless massacres in bulgaria recorded in the western press. europe took the side of the christians in the ottoman empire the turks were painted as being the bad side and were accused of terrible atrocities while no mention was made of what was being done to muslim groups in the balkans. the situation came to a head in eight hundred seventy six the bosnian revolt had become the crisis in the east the ottoman power was faltering. the ruling sultan abdul aziz in is tamil was overthrown. his successor were at the fifth was considered insane. in august eight hundred seventy six his brother abdul hamid the second came to power. he received the sort of the founder of the dinner. in the arab sultan mosque he was thirty four years old when he became the thirty fourth ottoman sultan. because. the sultan was the last stand when the empire started crumbling as a result of the nationalist efforts particularly in the balkans and under the. pressure of

heroes to this international group of christians. he explains that the monument is intended to honor all at nemi bears heroes those who like sam well my herrera resisted the german colonial force and those who fought against the forces of apartheid they are all no maybe and heroes. also the fallen heroes of. cuba and the soviet union supported the liberation struggle and maybe as heroes acre is very much in a communist style. there's no commemoration of the german settlers here history has labeled them oppressors. yet when we. go in winter is a place where my heroes that what the liberation struggle so i feel very proud when i'm here yes and i feel they're good and that they know namibia is a better place for living for all of us that we're living in the rabiya so for me personally. i'm very proud of this place actually to say that. namibia is one of the main beneficiaries of german development but i herero also want reparation for the suffering inflicted on their people and the genocide perpetrated by german troops in one thousand a

i would do, christianity, i write these books to ask myself these questions and christianity is my experience. it's the world that affect me most because it's how i grew up. these are my core values. i write these books in many ways for myself, to explore these ideas. that's why i continually choose christianity. you just mentioned robert blanton and how he is cutting loose, would it be right to say that professor roberts langdon with his travel and code breaking and of thing else is the quy breaking and of thing else is the guy you'd love to be? that is the best way to say it, he's the man i wish i could be, he is more daring and intelligent. somebody oncejoked that how could he be more intelligent because he says everything you think. but then i pointed out when he says something off the top of his head about a painting, it took me three days to research that. how long can langdon go on? he has tough luck and ends up in some pretty bad situation so i don't know! if! in some pretty bad situation so i don't know! if i was him i might go home for a while. i think langdon need a vacation and he

in fact, i think there's only one perfect christian. but i do think something we have to recognize tonight, before we went to break, my democratic counterpart sat here and said, people who take their christian values into consideration when making up their minds on who to vote for are a hate group. >> i didn't say that. >> if you needed a succinct explanation for how the democratic party has completely lost connection with middle america and may apparently never regain it, that's all you need to know. >> the southern poverty law center has categorized them as that. >> as doing what they want versus maria's viewpoint that christians are a hate group for taking those values into consideration. >> i'm a christian, by the way. >> that's all you need to know about american politics. >> i'm a christian and it's not me that categorized them as a hate group, it's the southern poverty law center that categorized them as a hate group. why would a christian group put out a pamphlet that says how homosexuality is hazardous to your health. tell me t

the united states for example was a promising country for christians looked. for a home where they could worship as they pleased even today there are active anabaptist communities such as the amish and mennonites whose radical doctrines reject technical progress and modern values. in addition to the lutherans the evangelical churches are also doing well in africa . the exhibition shows that luther's doctrine of faith wasn't the only one to spread beyond hero. sidon for begin to show that it was also the reformed church as the anglicans toys and we take a look at catholics to reagan's this in for wednesday the anabaptists at the basic course that emerged in the sixteenth century and then spread around the world to sweden the united states tanzania and korea. what's happening in the us is also interesting from a political perspective as seen in footage of iraq church services in the deeply religious bible belt the exhibition gives us a better insight into the evangelicals in the heartland of america the proponents of creationism and the pro-life and anti abortio

that's not allowed in india and isn't exactly christian either but never mind. india india is the country we belong to we have a different identity. we feel like. we speak our own language. we have our own customs our own history and we have no grounds to be ashamed of that. and then the chief leads us to the edge of the village to show was the grisly legacy of his ancestors. below the tree tops there's a kind of mass grave it's impossible to say whether the skulls are those of enemies or their own people. chris sharon a question. it was the custom at the time to leave the bodies out in the wild. usually below tree. we only learn to bury our dead when we became christians. they look. at them and. it took some time until our zing in the other naga has learned to forego violence after the end of british colonial rule they fought for their own state they achieved partial independence nagaland as a federal state within india now there's peace but other parts of northeast india are anything but idyllic. money poor a neighboring state is in crisis it too is home to ma

christiane a student from barcelona and her friend couldn't agree more. they feel catalan spanish and to repeat. that. i was born here but my entire family comes from all over spain at the supporters of independence have no right to pick us out and it was you know someone we don't want to for a commanded and divided we want europe to flourish and we want to be part of this not the end of but many in catalonia who are against independence such as this architect are still against today's protests they worried it will increase the tension. more fred about the this the spanish the spanish flag and. there was russian with spanish flags of them was there with frank speakers because . i think it's not. a very good idea to have. the streets filled with the two sides because they're going to clash still for protest the christina today's march was a success she says the people here represent catalonia silent majority organizers say this was the biggest ever protest against catalonia seceding from spain. ok now to some of the other stories making news around the wor

right which was the us taxes regulation on christian schools, as well as other schools. they had to have to be desegregated to a certain extent and it was the resistance to this that federal regulation that did it. >> i was raised in an evangelical church and i have been to a few of them throughout my adulthood. i am kind of at a crossroads moment personally and i wanted to hear what your thoughts were on this. it seems like anytime there are these movements where you have this moment of impasse within the ranks there is a lot of time these splits. you think of martin luther and the feces and all of that and it feels like that to me in evangelicalism because why you have overwhelmingly voted for donald trump you also have this newish action of evangelicals who are still very conservative in many ways but not when it comes to issues of social justice or integration and things like that. do you think that i am just working my way out of evangelicalism or do you think that there is more of me that it feels very reformation he to me where it feels like how can evangelicalism

part by the christian bank holidays i'm a christian. i think creating a plural democratic free society where people are free to live and express their beliefs as they see fit is really really important we don't want to have offices and workplaces and schools where muslim jewish and hindu kids can have time off because those holidays are not protected and this is the only thing germany is talking about anybody. arguing against it is really odd to create it in prehistoric . well what you want the segregation it's quite clear you want segregation you want to segregate people into a religious beliefs and so leggo way celebrate their own religious oldies what we want is a fully integrated national holiday like we want st george's day to be as i would national day for england a full integrated national whole of the people that we don't want to segregate people like you do we will fully inclusive holiday it's exactly sixty minutes past may day moscow time coming up britain on high alert and the danger of an extremist attack is an unknown presi

christian values are than he that you have a point that is an extraordinary position to be in isn't we don't talk about religion proper here we talk about those foundations on which europe itself the continent and the european union is based but i'm not sure it's on what basis do you lay claim to being the protectors of christian values in europe and that because apparently put it special for the past couple of years western europe is tending to forget what those values mean and who you to judge when the judge and we are trying to pull the engine we have we're just trying to portray what is happening and this is you know if it if you don't with your religious credentials. if you don't name a problem if you don't name that we are shifting away from our own values and give you giving up your own where yours doesn't mean the very anything good actually for the future of the european continent or especially for the european union if you take a look at the their predecessors impounding fathers if you like of european politicians the firmly believe that europe should be based on christian

one hand and they have a very insistent party the christian democrats the c.s.u. on the other hand i mean this is such a longstanding dispute assuming they've solved that that would remove a huge hurdle. towards making progress with the with two other small parties the free democrats and the greens and securing a stable government for germany absolutely yes one of the key figures of one of the key issues right now in or one of the biggest stepping stones in forming this new coalition the so-called jamaica coalition with the center left greens of the free free market liberals f.t.p. was the c.d.u. and this is you which together form a union that's at least what the name means was that this union didn't show any unity at all no they half perhaps this union on one of the key figures one of the one of the central points and now they can go and speak with one tongue to the other parties to the greens and to the democrats and of course those two parties both want an immigration law as well certainly outlines of an agreement. beginning to to appear there are many thanks

culture do but you ignore the pope's call to exhibit those same christian values and open your doors to migrants that you are. really feel you're a follower that oakley was or you were so how do you know he is you also have to know that the religious commands and politics sometimes are in conflict because your first responsibility when it's about taking care of those who are in need goes for your own people that sounds good but at the same time he is a leader of hundreds of other going to let me talk about a religious leader of hundreds of millions of people and your state and central europe you think you know better about religious values and what christianity christian values are than either you have a point that is an extraordinary position to be in isn't we don't talk about religion proper here we talk about those foundations on which europe itself the continent and the european union is based but i'm not sure it's on what basis do you lay claim to being the protectors of christian values in europe and that because apparently put it special for the past couple of years western eu

the party the christian social union or c.s.u. sources close to key talks between the two parties say they've agreed in principle on an upper limit for the number of migrants to be allowed into germany every year it would mean german or thought is accepting no more than two hundred thousand refugees a year there an exception would be made in special circumstances if confirmed the deal would remove a key hurdle to coalition talks between merkel's conservative bloc and two other smaller parties. now for more on this our political correspondent is with me in the studio but walk us through this you know what do we know so far about this. agreement in principle as i think is what they're calling it yes it seems a bit that as if the chancellor angela merkel made c's u.t.v. horsy who for. a compromise or gave him the order said and offered him a compromise he couldn't really resist to saying yes we will have a maximum gap on some part of the migration but we still will have other migration to how are they how are they distinguishing betw