This Week On The Web provides links to interesting and challenging items we've come across on the web.

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5th July, 2010

HIV/AIDS has killed 27 million people, says the World Health Organisation. Read Peter Hartcher's article in The Sydney Morning Herald of the latest calls to keep funding the fight against the ongoing spread of the disease...

8th June, 2010

Read Ghaith Abdul-Ahad's report published in The Guardian newspaper 'How Somalia's civil war became new front in battle against al-Qaida' about what's been happening in the African nation here...

21st May, 2010

Listen to Dr Craig Venter, the scientist responsible for creating the first synthetic living cell, talk about the ramifications of his work in an interview with the BBC here...

17th May, 2010

The battle for Bangkok. Read Ben Doherty's report in The Guardian 'Thailand's tourists shop for bargains as protest battle rages' here...

1st May, 2010

Read Tom Allard's report in The Sydney Morning Herald 'God help us: Bali Nine pray' here...

1st April, 2010

Read an explanation of some of the Easter customs and traditions here...

22nd March, 2010

Read a report from TIME magazine on Morocco's crackdown on Christian aid workers here...

19th February, 2010

Take a virtual journey along Russia's famed Trans-Siberian railway with a new 'virtual train journey' on Google. Simply follow the link to get started...

25th January, 2010

Read the amazing story of Wismond Exantus, a 24-year-old supermarket cashier who survived 11 days buried under rubble after the Haiti earthquake on 12th January. Rescued last Saturday, he said he had been saved by God. "It was God who was tucking me away in his arms."

8th December, 2009

How did 25th December become the date we celebrate Christmas? Andrew McGowan, associate professor of early Christian history at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has penned his thoughts on the matter in an article published in the Bibical Archaeology Review. Click here to start reading...

23rd November, 2009

Australia Post has published 200 'Letters of a Nation' as part of its bicentenary celebrations. The letters have been chosen to represent the different "events, people and regions of Australia's rich history". Click here to start reading...

29th October, 2009

News of the Pope Benedict XVI's invitation for disenchanted Anglicans to return to Roman Catholicism has sparked discussion around the world - and in Australia. Follow this link to see The Age's Barney Zwartz's report on the Australian reaction...

19th October, 2009

More from YouTube - this time it's the amazing work of Ukranian 'sand artist' Kseniya Simonova. In June, Ms Simonova won Ukraine's Got Talent with a moving performance in which she illustrated the story of her country during World War II. Click here to see the YouTube video of her performance...

12th October, 2009

Rare footage of Anne Frank - the Jewish girl who kept a diary while living in hiding in Amsterdam before she was captured and died seven months later in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp - is viewable on a new 'Anne Frank Channel' launched on YouTube by Anne Frank House. Go here to see it...

1st October, 2009

It's Ocsober! Life Education Australia is running a fundraising program which challenges Australians to cut out alcohol for a month to raise money to educate children about the effects of drugs and alcohol. Go here to find out more...

31st August, 2009

Atheist Adam Rutherford is taking the Alpha course and blogging about his experiences for The Guardian newspaper's website. You can read about his experiences here...

19th August, 2009

The National Film & Sound Archive recently added another 10 recordings to its Sounds of Australia registry. They include the Happy Little Vegemites advertising jingle. Click here to listen to the complete list...

6th July, 2009

Read the UK Daily Mail's take on the amazing story of Australian Nick Vujicic who was born without arms or legs here...

1st July, 2009

Following the disputed presidential election in Iran on 12th June, authorities have detained hundreds of people. There have also been some deaths. The Guardian newspaper in the UK is compiling a list of people detained or killed and is asking for help in identifying them. You can see the list here...

23rd June, 2009

Want to gain a better understanding of events in Iran? Time has published a who's who list looking at 10 of the top players in events unfolding there. You can see the list here...

3rd June, 2009

In an interview with Christianity Today, Casting Crowns frontman Mark Hall talks about his band's second trip to North Korea. Read the story here...

16th May, 2009

The National Day of Thanksgiving will be held on 30th May - with this year's focus on elected leaders at all levels of government, leaders within all spheres of community life and public servants. For resources and to find out how you can be involved, see www.thanksgiving.org.au

9th May, 2009

Child development agency Compassion Australia is holding its annual 'Compassion Day' on 14th May in conjunction with Christian radio stations around the country. This year, the organisation will attempt to find sponsors for 1,500 children living in Bangladesh and Ethiopia. To see how you can help. visit www.compassionday.com.au.

4th May, 2009

Follow this link to read an interview in The Christian Post with machine gun- toting pastor Sam Childers about his work in helping defend children against being forced into the Lord's Resistance Army in Africa, and his recent book, Another Man's War: The True Story of One Man's Battle to Save Children in the Sudan...

24th April, 2009

Take a photo of your tap and email it to Samaritan's Purse Australia and they'll receive a $2 donation to their "Turn on the Tap" initiative. To find out more details about "Turn on the Tap", read the Sight story here or visit www.turnonthetap.org.au (where there's also a gallery of tap images).

8th April, 2009

"Twitter the Passion". Trinity Wall Street in lower Manhattan, New York, will be publishing a series of tweets describing the Stations of the Cross on their Twitter site, @twspassionplay, this Friday from noon until 3pm. For a preview of black and white photographs and accompanying text, you can click here...

3rd April, 2009

See a gallery of Christian-related images at Flickr's 'Christian Faith' group. Go here to see the images...

26th March, 2009

Switch off your lights for an hour this weekend and join with millions around the world in Earth Hour 2009. Earth Hour aims to have more than a billion people turn off their lights at 8.30pm on March 28th for one hour in what they describe as a "global vote for action on climate change". For more details, follow this link...

14th March, 2009

Many people will already be familiar with the famous sermon of Dr S.M. Lockeridge, That's My King! If you've never heard it or would love to hear it again, you can listen to an edited version of the sermon set to images of Christ here...

5th March, 2009

This week the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant against Sudan's President, Omar al-Bashir, on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. In an opinion article in The New York Times, US evangelist and relief organistion chief Franklin Graham - who recently met with President al-Bashir in Sudan - writes that justice shouldn't be served at the cost of peace. You can read his article here...

27th February, 2009

British man, Alec Garrard, has spent 30 years building a model of the Temple of Herod. You can read about his work here or see an amazing gallery of pictures here...

19th February, 2009

Time magazine has published a cover story looking at 'How faith can heal' which explores various positions around the connections between faith and healing. You can read the piece and related coverage here...

4th February, 2009

In late December, London Times columnist Matthew Parris wrote an article 'As an atheist, I truly believe Africa needs God', saying that missionaries, not aid money, are the solution to Africa's problems. Read the piece here...

28th January, 2009

Pope Benedict XVI has launched his own YouTube channel, ostensibly to broaden the Pope's audience. Visit www.youtube.com/vaticanit.

15th January, 2009

Sydney-sider and Christian Arthur Stace is remembered for writing the word 'Eternity' all over the harbour city. The story of his life is being retold as an opera, The Eternity Man, screening on ABC1 at 9.45pm on Sunday, 18th January, 2009. Here, read Pastor Peter Rahme's retelling of the life of Arthur Stace and here, watch Peter, pastor of Sydney's Inner West Baptist Church and author of The Life & Legacy Of Mr Eternity, talk about what "eternity" is really all about...

23rd November, 2008

"Christmas can (still) change the world." For a reminder of what Christmas is really all about, see the Advent Conspiracy's video on YouTube or visit the organisation's website for the video and more information...

1st November, 2008

See Bethlehem pastor and peace-prize winner, Rev Dr Mitri Raheb, address the Australian Conference on Lutheran Education, which was held in Melbourne in early October. Dr Raheb, winner of two peace prizes and Palestine's most published theologian, was unable to travel to Australia to attend the conference but recorded his lecture in which he talks about the global literacies young people need in order to contribute in a multi-cultural and multi-faith global community. Access Dr Raheb's sessions here...