Private school in Sydney have responded to the economic downturn by keeping fee increases to less than half the inflation rate. The Sydney Anglican School Corporation is particularly concerned by economic situation.

The state's main aged-care home operators - including ARV - have boycotted the Federal Government's annual offer of nursing home bed licences, leading some to predict a significant shortage of places in the near future.

The Reverend Fred Nile has everyone talking about bare breasts, but both sides of politics say his proposal to ban topless sunbathing is not a matter for state parliament.

Women bishops must enjoy the same authority as their male counterparts if they are placed in charge of an Anglican diocese, say two pioneering Australian churchwomen.

The family of a teenager stabbed to death at a Sydney railway station have gathered for the much-loved youth's funeral, saying they forgive his killer.

Mike Baird's description of himself as a "progressive with conservative principles" sounds like John Howard's credo of economic liberalism combined with social conservatism. Mr Baird, who admits being shaped by his Christian faith, has been promoted to NSW Opposition Treasury spokesman

Let's just say it out loud and without beating around the bush: London not only celebrates Christmas with more style than Sydney but it seems to exude rather more heart and spirit.

Graham Long has brought his own restorative style to the Wayside Chapel, having known his own tumble from grace.

THE Department of Community Services will transfer most of its responsibility for overseas adoptions to a non-profit agency as part of a plan to outsource more of its functions. But the most likely candidates - three agencies (including Anglicare) that now manage adoptions of locally born children - appear unwilling to step in, saying the proposed model is too risky.

During Bishop Bakare's visit to NSW more than $15,000 was raised to support the Bishop’s Christian charitable efforts in Zimbabwe.

Among the 23 to achieve a perfect HSC score this year was Kate Bones, dux of Abbotsleigh School for Girls, who hopes to be admitted to the University of Sydney combined international studies-law degree next year.

A 71-year-old retired used-car and caravan salesman is the latest businessman to move into the foster care industry, establishing homes for children that will generate around $50,000 a week.

Year 12 students at Nowra Anglican College shined in their achievements this year, with the school named as the top ranked in the Shoalhaven for HSC results.

It seems that for Sydneysiders charity really does begin at home - even during a downturn.

An Islamic school catering to more than 1000 students in Sydney's south-west has been approved, despite thousands of objections by locals.

More than a dozen needy families could miss out on food and presents this Christmas because thieves have stolen hampers from a church in Sydney's south-wes

Welfare agency Anglicare says the rising costs of electricity are beginning to push more people on low incomes over the edge.

"Paradoxically, it may seem as though this step is a division, but it is really to help us not to divide by giving us more flexibility," says Archbishop Jensen, secretary for GAFCON's leadership council. He spoke by phone as a "close observer," not officially for the council.

The Council of the Anglican Church League, Sydney, send greetings to the new Province of North America

"With the cost of energy set to rise under the possible privatisation of NSW's energy industry and the Federal Government's carbon emissions trading scheme, community organisations like ours are concerned that even more people will struggle to pay their electricity bills."

A SYDNEY private school's investment in Aboriginal children is starting to pay off, with dramatically improved literacy and numeracy results.

The Hammondville project was devised by the far-sighted Canon R.B.S. Hammond, the long-time rector of St Barnabas Church, in Broadway, to move the poor into low-cost, self-help homes where they could make a fresh start and recover a sense of self-esteem.

The final cost for the Catholic Church's World Youth Day festival was six times higher than originally estimated, a New South Wales Government report has revealed.

The problem for those who are interested in talking about religion is often just getting enough air time, so to see that God would be blazoned on the side of buses, even if it a sort of anti-God message, was actually very interesting.

Free Money for New Lives, the Moore College based campaign aiming to decrease the rate of abortion in Australia, has released a promotional video.