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Friday, 21 November, 2008

Christian Lobby calls for Sex Party snub - Christian Today (Australia)

Following the launch of the Australian Sex Party at Melbourne’s Sexpo today, the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) has renewed calls for Labor, Liberal and the Greens to put the party last on how-to-vote cards in upcoming elections.

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Jesus Racing back on track with new sponsor - Christian Today (Australia)

The Jesus Racing Team will race in the Fujitsu Series Grand Finale at Oran Park after signing Christian radio station 103.2 FM as a new sponsor

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Adelaide Anglicans begin paedophile reform program - ABC

The Adelaide diocese of the church has put in place a program where sex offenders who want to attend church are required to sign a memorandum of understanding and agree to be accompanied by a church officer while they are there.

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Mad about Hugh Jackman - The Sydney Morning Herald

It's possible the church fellowship at St James Anglican, Turramurra, enjoyed a record attendance of dreamy-eyed girls in the early to mid-1980s...

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Court to review gay marriage ban - BBC News

California's highest court says it will hear legal challenges to a ban on gay marriage, but that the ban will remain in place pending its ruling.

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Harvey: charity not so sweet - The Sydney Morning Herald

The retail king Gerry Harvey may have a personal fortune of about $1.6 billion but the Harvey Norman founder thinks donating to charity is "just wasted".

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Local Muslim clerics accused - The Age

Some Muslim religious leaders in Victoria are condoning rape within marriage, domestic violence, polygamy, welfare fraud and exploitation of women, according to an explosive report on the training of imams.

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Canadian Primate ‘disturbed’ by new rival body - Christian Post

The recent announcement about plans to move forward with creating a new Anglican rival body in North America was dubbed by Canadian Archbishop Fred Hilz as "disturbing."

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Zimbabawe suffering from cholera epidemic - Religious Intelligence

Zimbabwe's capital has been in the throes of a full-blown cholera epidemic for several weeks. As rival political parties continue to fight for power, Harare's townships resemble war zones as scores perish from cholera.

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Fears as Kazakhstan stiffens religious legislation - Religious Intelligence

Kazakhstan's Senate has significantly harshened the draft Law amending several laws on religion, restricting evangelism and possibly endangering religious-based charitable activities.

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Kenyan Archbishop Nzimi welcomes Obama - Religious Intelligence

The Archbishop of Kenya has welcomed the election of America’s first president of African-descent, calling Senator Barack Obama’s win a “fulfillment of democracy.”

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Thursday, 20 November, 2008

JI Packer’s address to ANiC Synod on Our Position and Our Prospects - Anglican Network in Canada

Just about a year ago I stood here to deliver, in the hearing of some present today, a position paper entitled: “Global Realignment: Where We Stand – a Theological Perspective”. Now I am asked to give another such address; a second helping, you might say, of the Packer pudding, says Dr JI Packer.

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Timeline for a new US Province - Institute on Religion and Democracy

Despite the flurry of organizational activity among Anglican conservatives following the controversial 2003 ordination of Gene Robinson as Bishop of New Hampshire, some groups had expressed pessimism saying that a new North American Anglican Province was many years away. If forming a unified front was possible at all. As little as a decade ago, there were few Anglican congregations in the United States that were formally recognized by any other Anglican branches around the world.

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Britain grapples with role for Islamic justice - New York Times

Despite a raucous national debate over the limits of religious tolerance and the pre-eminence of British law, the tenets of Shariah, or Islamic law, are increasingly being applied to everyday life in cities across the country.

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Billy Graham team assist Californian ‘mega-fire’ victims - Christian Post

A Billy Graham Rapid Response Team of crisis-trained chaplains was deployed this week to Southern California where “mega” blazes of fire have destroyed more than 800 homes and thousands of acres of land in the last few days.

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Zondervan acquires megachurch’s community-building program - Christian Post

In keeping with its vision for digital growth, Christian communications company Zondervan has acquired The City, a proprietary online community-building software program created by one of America’s most recognized megachurches.

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Conservative Anglicans push formation of rival American body - Christian Post

Anglican leaders who have split from The Episcopal Church plan to take a major step in the formation of what will essentially be a separate and rival body by releasing a proposed constitution next month.

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Rewards offered to Christian killers - Religious Intelligence

Hindu militants in India are offering rewards of money, food and liquor to mobs to kill Christians and destroy their homes, according to partners of human rights organisation, Release International.

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Hindu militants bribing supporters to kill, say campaigners - Religious Intelligence

Hindu militants in India are offering rewards of money, food and liquor to mobs to kill Christians and destroy their homes, according to partners of human rights organisation, Release International.

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Private schools cane national curriculum - The Sydney Morning Herald

Non-government schools say Labor's planned national curriculum will stifle innovation, result in up to 50 per cent of current courses being scrapped and potentially prohibit the teaching of intelligent design in Christian schools.

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Study: Today’s youth think quite highly of themselves - USA Today

oday's teenagers and young adults are far more likely than their parents to believe they're great people, destined for maximum success as workers, spouses and parents, suggests a report comparing three decades of national surveys.

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Salvos seek to target rural depression - The Sydney Morning Herald

The Salvation Army is battling to cut high suicide rates in the bush with a project that includes a DVD showing people how to get help for depression.

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Britain to outlaw forced prostitution - The Sydney Morning Herald

Britain has announced plans to outlaw prostitution involving women forced into the sex trade through illegal trafficking, but the move was sharply criticised by experts.

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Private schools oppose going public on funds - The Australian

The Australian Council of Christian Schools says there are great risks associated with publishing funding data.

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Muslim women start fighting back - The Age

Muslim Australian women are starting to fight back against a repressive patriarchal system in which controversial Sheikh Taj al-Din al-Hilali is seen as a champion of women's rights, a Melbourne University conference will hear today.

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