A new law passed by the Ugandan parliament this week makes advocating for gay rights punishable by imprisonment for life will present a challenge to the conservative Anglican Gafcon movement. In addition, identifying as gay becomes an offence, according to… Continue Reading
“If the UCA in the Hunter is not already dying, within twenty years it will be all but dead, is a key sentence in a “Strategic Mission Plan” for the Hunter Presbytery (region) of the Uniting Church in Australia (UCA).… Continue Reading
A press release by NCLS Research gives good news for Easter In December 2022, the Australian Community Survey (2022 ACS) asked Australians if they would go to church this Easter if a close friend or family member invited them. Four… Continue Reading
A spirit of compromise has allowed the Victorian Liberals to avoid either expelling Moira Deeming, the conservative Christian upper house member, or undermining John Pesutto the party leader who had called for her to be removed. Instead, Deeming, who attended… Continue Reading
A Special General Meeting of the Assembly of Confessing Congregations Inc has voluntarily voted to cease business operations as of 30 April 2023. Over 90 per cent of the members at the meeting supported the closure. The Assembly of Confessing… Continue Reading
Politicians of various colours , whether the deep blue Moira Deeming (pictured) from the Vic Liberals or Lidia Thorpe, the ex-Green Senator, have made heavy weather of rallies on trans issues. Deeming faces a party room motion to expel her… Continue Reading
Dan Ole Shani, the Kenyan-born CEO of Open Doors International, brought stories of current persecution during his recent Australian visit. Open Doors is a ministry to the persecuted church, famously started by Bible Smuggler Brother Andrew. But Shani told a… Continue Reading
The long-time lead pastor at the multi-campus Inspire church, John McMartin has been sentenced to an intensive corrections order with 120 hours of community service. A breach of the order could land him in prison with a 16 months sentence… Continue Reading
Mark Latham got cancelled last night by a group that came out to demonstrate in support of him. An election meeting at St. Michaels Church in Belfield, in inner southwestern Sydney, was closed by the police after 500 back-clad counter-demonstrators… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column In the rubble: Missionaries have come to have a unique role in the earthquake zone. When relief teams from other nations arrive to give aid in the earthquake zone – they can’t speak the language. That’s… Continue Reading