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Unchristian comments about BBC’s new head of religion?
The BBC is coming in for flak about its religious coverage, much of it centring on its incoming head of religious broadcasting.
The publicly funded broadcaster has appointed Aaqil Ahmed from Channel 4, a move that has dismayed a Church of England member who is proposing to discuss the matter at the church’s General Synod, the church’s parliament.
Nigel Holmes, a former BBCÂ employee and lay member of the synod, has tabled a private members’ motion for the upcoming meeting in July.
In a document to go with the motion, which has to attract 100 signatures to be discussed, he accused Ahmed of heading up a Channel 4Â religious department that was sensationalist and biased against Christianity.
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