If you follow news of the persecuted church, you are used to seeing images of crosses being removed and other acts to demolish churches in places like China. So it is jarring to see the same happening in Canberra. On… 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
After four years, Dr Jereth Kok is still suspended from medical practice because of stuff he wrote online. One of the things he wrote was for me when I was editing Eternity, the Christian newspaper and website of which I… Continue Reading
Spiritual abuse is the next scandal coming for churches, LGBTQIA activist Jayne Ozanne told a plenary session of World Pride’s Human rights Conference. And international law could be used to repress anti-gay religious practices. The mornings sessions ended on a… Continue Reading
Today is the closing date for personal submissions to the Australian Law Reform Commission’s inquiry into the exemptions that religious schools currently have under anti-discrimination legislation, A consultation paper from the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) recommends the removal of… Continue Reading
Religious leaders, Catholic, Islamic, evangelical Anglican, Orthodox, Baptist, Pentecostal and Jewish, have written a joint letter to the Albanese government defending the right of religious schools to preference people of faith on their staff, the letters in response to an… Continue Reading
A consultation paper from the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) recommends the removal of exemptions in the Sex Discrimination Act that some Christian schools have relied on for staffing and rules for students. Attorney General Mark Dreyfus is running a… Continue Reading
Byron and Keira Hordyk (pictured) have won a case of religious discrimination after a welfare agency rejected the Christian couple as “unsafe” to foster 0-5-year-old children because of their Christian beliefs on sexuality and gender. John Steenhof, principal layer for… Continue Reading
Being leader of a reborn political party and the subject of an anti-discrimination complaint makes for a frantic few days. No sooner had Lyle Shelton finished with the Victorian Election as leader of Family First then he was off the… Continue Reading
Citipointe Christian College has become the poster child of critics of the low-fee ”Christian schools” movement. The debate over future Albanese government religious discrimination legislation will feature Citipointe front and centre. The Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus has announced an inquiry by… Continue Reading