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#918 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 29 Jun 2014. Sydney’s Wesley Mission will expand its homeless services particularly to families and young people under the NSW Government’s new homelessness reform package. Wesley Mission CEO, the Rev Dr Keith Garner, said almost one third of homeless Australians who receive support are homeless families – and that number … Continue reading
#917 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 29 Jun 2014. Commenting on the results of a recent Gallup poll, Time magazine claimed this week that “Most Americans Are Totally Fine With Euthanasia.” The poll asserted that strong majorities had supported this for more than twenty years. But the survey question did not mention the words “euthanasia” or … Continue reading
#916 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 29 Jun 2014. On June 19 the High Court ruled unconstitutional federal government laws permitting funding of the National School Chaplaincy Program. The Court found that chaplaincy services did not fall under the Commonwealth’s power to make laws that provide “benefit to students.” This does not imply the demise … Continue reading
#915 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 29 Jun 2014. Human rights agency Release International has warned that Sudanese woman Meriam Ibrahim remains at risk from Islamist vigilantes, with religious persecution worsening in Sudan and freedom of religion not guaranteed under the country’s new constitution. The 27-year-old Ms Ibrahim, whose father was Muslim and who was … Continue reading
#914 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 22 Jun 2014. The debate on gay marriage has gone rather placid in recent months. Or so I thought, until leading Tasmanian “marriage equality” campaigner, Rodney Croome, this week accused me of laying claim to a religious heritage of persecution, and resistance to that persecution, while at the same time … Continue reading
#913 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 22 Jun 2014. The latest National Church Life Survey, taken in 2011, included questions on disability for church leaders and attenders. Leaders were asked, for example, how their church catered for disability-related needs, and attenders were asked whether they considered their church to be inclusive of disability. One of … Continue reading
#912 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 22 Jun 2014. Iraqi Christians have come under fire, and many have fled their homes, as a campaign by Islamic militants this week spilled over from Syria into Iraq’s northern cities. Local reports suggest soldiers, police and government officials captured by militants have been summarily executed, as have some … Continue reading
#911 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 22 Jun 2014. Tasmania’s Anglican Bishop, John Harrower, and CEO of the Australian Churches Refugee Taskforce, Ms Misha Coleman, have proposed that Tasmania could process asylum seekers in the community, instead of the billions of dollars being wasted on offshore detention facilities. The proposal attracted strong interest from local, … Continue reading
#910 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 15 Jun 2014. The NSW Council of Churches supports calls by the Victorian Inter-Church Gambling Taskforce for a ban on sports betting advertising after the latest offensive marketing campaign stunt. “Sportsbet has demonstrated again the depths they are willing to sink to in the pursuit of profits,” Taskforce Chair Dr … Continue reading
#909 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 15 Jun 2014. Writing in Christianity Today magazine, Rachel Marie Stone recalls something that Christian apologist and children’s fantasy author C.S. Lewis once said: Once about every hundred years some wiseacre gets up and tries to banish the fairy tale. It is accused of giving [children] a false impression … Continue reading
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