What's on: In Conversation with Hugh Mackay. To launch his new book Right & Wrong, Wednesday, May 19. READ ON
Uniting
Church says abuse must end now
Uniting
Church leaders have called on the Government to
immediately release children and their families
from detention and implement all the recommendations
of the report from the Human Rights Commission
Inquiry into Children in Detention. READ
ON
Churches
call for release of abused detainee children
Following
the release of a damning finding
of Federal Government responsibility for
cases of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment
of detained asylum seeker children, the
National Council of Churches in Australia
has backed the Human Rights Commission’s
one-month deadline for the release of all
children and their families. READ ON
Wesley welcomes $10 million
Lifeline upgrade
Wesley
Mission Sydney has welcomed the Federal Government’s
budget announcement of a $10 million upgrade of
the emergency telephone counselling service,
Lifeline.
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Religious
riot rages in Nigeria
Muslim
and Christian militants are fighting bloody street
battles in Nigeria's northern city of Kano for
a second day, killing at least 15 people,
witnesses say. READ
ON
3D
church opened to woo internet faithful
Christians
in Britain opened a zany 3D Internet church on
Tuesday, billed as a first chance for believers
to log on and worship interactively. READ
ON Online church offers
heavenly website. READ
ON Searching
for God online. READ ON MORE
Churches affirm prophetic voice
amidst globalisation
"Mission
begins with raising our prophetic voice to expose
and condemn the capitalist-led, globalised context
and its new geo-political realities that
intentionally destroy human community."
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ON MORE
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