Everyman

An examination of the controversial Christian Channel Europe (CCE), which has since October 1995 been broadcasting Christianity to Europe via satellite. Its founders, a born-again couple from South Africa, believe that God has personally called them to the task. But critics fear that the CCE may do more harm than good.

A portrait of an enclosed order at a Benedictine Convent in Chester. See today's choices.

A film following patients facing death at St Christopher's Hospice in south east London, to discover how they and their families cope with the knowledge and implications of their dying.

The first of a new five-part series of Everyman documentaries. In January 1989, one of Tibet's most holy men, the Panchen Lama, died. It is the responsibility of the Dalai Lama to name the child who will be the reincarnation of the Panchen, but since the Chinese invasion of Tibet 40 years ago he has lived in exile and the Chinese government has sought to repress traditional Tibetan Buddhism. The Dalai Lama did chose a boy to be the Panchen Lama but the child has disappeared. The Chinese have now enthroned their own choice, an act that could put the spiritual and political future of Tibet at stake.

American-born Rabbi Shmuel Boteach has taken the Jewish community by storm. He is determined to make Oxford a Jewish city, will go to any lengths to seek publicity, and promotes new attitudes to sex.

Many people believe that the Jesus Army has all the hallmarks of a cult. It has been portrayed by the media as evil and manipulative, often recruits vulnerable members of society, and encourages followers to live in closed communities, cut off from friends and family. This film examines the lives of people once they join.

Traditionally the sky has been the abode of the gods and the settingfor heaven. Modern day science has stripped away much of ourmythology, but there's evidence that many people - and some scientists - still have a need to believe in something above the clouds. From theology to ufology and cosmology to astrology, Everyman explores belief in the heavens above.

A search to discover the secrets of the crystal skulls takes Everyman on an adventure from Canada and the US through Mexico and Central America to the British Museum in London. Do the skulls really have incredible powers?

One day Mary Murray rang the local radio station to report blood and tears falling from the face of the statue of the Mother of God in her home. Since then the tiny Irish village of Grangecon has been the destination for pilgrims from around the world and a centre of controversy among the villagers.

The first of three documentaries looking into the ongoing struggle between the belief systems of religion and science. Over 70 years ago, the "Monkey Trial" brought the debate between creation and evolution to public prominence. Today, half of the US population still believe in the former, condemning the latter as a heresy responsible for the current moral crisis. In the state of Tennessee, the battle is being fought out in the arena of the education system. An anti-evolution bill being debated by the US Senate would ban its teaching as anything other than a theory. Presenting evolutionary biology as fact could result in prosecution. With the US Presidential election looming, the debate has assumed even more importance with priests, politicians and professors taking a stand as they await the verdict of the Senate.

The second of three Everyman documentaries looking into the ongoing struggle between religion and science. Genetics research is perhaps the most dangerous cutti ng edge of scientific enquiry. The dark history of Nazi eugenics casts a disturbing shadow over a future that promises an end to all inherited illness and the perfection of the species. Meanwhile, the L'Arche community in France offers a challenging alternative with the able-bodied and the handicapped living and working together.

Last of three Everyman documentaries looking into the ongoing struggle between religion and science. Italy is gripped by miracle fever with statues weeping, the dying being cured and sceptical scientists keen to investigate. The Vatican is questioning its own historical commitmentto the miraculous power of the saints with theologians and scientists meeting to see if they can sign a peace treaty.

For many Jews the warwas not over in May 1945 and the Nuremberg trial of Nazi war criminals was not enough. Under the leadership of the charismatic young poet and partisan Abba Kovner , theyformed a group of avengers to track down and execute known Nazis. Now 50 years afterthe judgement at the Nurembergtrials, the surviving avengers, including Kovner's widow, tell for the first time the story of how the group set out on a campaign of mass murder.

After the vicar for St Mark's and St Martin's died, a new one had to be found - a task that was not at all straightforward. In this multiracial north London parish, the demands of the parishioners, the wishes of the local bishop and the thoughts of the trustees (a group of businessmen from the City of London) all had to be taken into account. This programme follows the shortlisted candidates for the post through the selection process - which included an interview in front of 11 elders and a right of veto that rested with two parishioners - and discovers how a decision was reached.

In the beginning, the church wanted nothing to do with broadcasting. More than half-a-century later, the message and the medium have come to terms with each other. From drama to documentary, from satire to Songs of Praise, actor Stephen Tompkinson (Father Clifford in Ballykissangel) looks back at 60 years of God on the box.

A report on the controversy surrounding last night's service at Southwark Cathedral marking 20 years of the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement. Including interviews with those who took part and with members of the Church of England's "Reform" movement which condemns homosexuality in the church.

In the last of the present series Everyman follows four women from the north of England on a package-tour pilgrimage to Bosnia in search of a miraculous vision of the Virgin Mary.