Hannah Moore
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384 appearances
14 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2014
last heard May 2015
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But the basic story is that nuns have been dying or leaving their orders in greater numbers than new nuns are joining up.
The total number of nuns in Great Britain has fallen by a third in the past two decades, and it's now 6,000.
One possible explanation is immigration.
Catholicism is big in Poland, for example.
The National Office for Vocation, which is part of the Roman Catholic Church and which collects the numbers we've been discussing, says that this is part of the story.
This is Sister Gemma Simmons.
She's the director of the Religious Life Institute at Haythrop College at the University of London.
Possibly in the UK, although you could argue that the tiny uptick in new trainee nuns was already happening.
Welcome to More or Less on the BBC World Service.
I'm Charlotte MacDonald.
And I'm Hannah Moore.
First to South Africa, where a spate of xenophobic attacks have been hitting the news.
Shops have been looted and a number of international migrants have been attacked, some killed.
We got in touch with Kate Wilkinson, a senior researcher at the website Africa Check, and asked her what had provoked these attacks.
She says unemployment is very high.
Around half of young people aren't in work.
But while South Africans are struggling to find jobs, the perception is that there are large numbers of people from abroad coming into the country.
Kate and her colleagues have been fact-checking some of the claims that have been fuelling negative attitudes towards migrants.
We asked her to run through three of them.
This claim's been widely reported.
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