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#1128 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 20 September 2015. A chief aim of the parent-driven lobby group, Fairness in Religion in Schools is to abolish the practice of volunteer-run Special Religious Education in NSW schools. In recent months, the group has appeared so anti-Christian that disclaimers on their website and social media state they are not … Continue reading
#1127 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 20 September 2015. The refusal by Kentucky clerk Kim Davis to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples in defiance of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in favour of same sex marriage, for which she spent six days in jail, has ignited enormous interest, including that of prominent Baptist … Continue reading
#1126 for broadcast on 2CH, 13 September 2015 Australian Baptists have joined other Christian churches in welcoming the Abbott government’s initial response to the Syrian refugee crisis. Australian Baptist Ministries National Director, the Reverend Keith Jobberns, and Executive Director of Baptist Care Australia, Ms Carolyn Kelshaw, urged the government to go further, providing additional financial aid … Continue reading
#1125 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 13 September 2015 Sydney’s Catholic Archbishop, the Most Rev Anthony Fisher, says the Abbott government’s decision to take an additional 12,000 refugees from Syria is “a good one and the right one.” Archbishop Fisher said Islamic State had stated their goal was to wipe out all Christians in that … Continue reading
#1124 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 13 September 2015 In their public communications on the Syrian conflict and the resulting refugee crisis, church leaders should not back away from naming the specific evil, and the specific primary victims. I welcome the statements released by Archbishop Anthony Fisher and Archbishop Glenn Davies this week. Dr Davies … Continue reading
#1123 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 2 September 2015. Speaking from Alaska on Monday, U.S. President Barack Obama announced that the world had reached a fork in the road on climate change, and, while he welcomed debate on mitigation strategies, the science on global warming is settled and the time to act is now. Mr Obama said we … Continue reading
#1122 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 2 September 2015. Outrage continues over apparent attempts by a powerful lobby group to remove Special Religious Education from state schools, and a recent state-wide ban by the NSW Education Minister of a film depicting life for children of gay and lesbian couples, scheduled to be screened at Burwood Girls … Continue reading
#1121 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 2 September 2015. The shocking photographs released on Wednesday of a dead Syrian toddler, lying face-down on a beach near the Turkish resort of Bodrum, highlights the human cost of the egregious abuses committed by Islamic State against innocent civilians in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere. The child’s body was … Continue reading
#1120 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 30 Aug 2015 On Wednesday, The Daily Telegraph led with a story of outrage at a plan by Burwood Girls High School to screen a documentary about children with gay parents during school hours. Church and community leaders, and several “old girls” of the school, expressed shock and dismay at … Continue reading
#1119 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 30 Aug 2015 Recently the Presbyterian Church in NSW voted to ask its peak national decision-making body to withdraw its ministers from solemnising marriages in Australia if marriage is redefined to include same sex couples. In the current issue of the Presbyterian Pulse magazine, the Reverend Dr Peter Barnes explains the … Continue reading
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