Federal Government urged not to cut foreign aid in next week’s budget
The Micah Challenge coalition has welcomed the growing number of voices calling on the Federal Government to increase aid in the Federal Budget to be handed down next week. It says that alongside aid organisations and churches, Australian business leaders, the Greens party and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) have all highlighted […]
NSW CHURCHES CALL ON POLITICIANS TO VOTE AGAINST EUTHANASIA BILL
9th May, 2013 Churches in New South Wales have called on members of the NSW Parliament’s Upper House to vote against a private member’s bill which would legalise voluntary euthanasia. The Rights of the Terminally Ill Bill was introduced to the state’s Upper House by Greens MP Cate Faehrmann last week. It is reportedly expected […]
DEVELOPMENT: NEW INDEPENDENT RESEARCH SHOWS THE BENEFITS OF CHILD SPONSORSHIP
DAVID ADAMS reports on the findings of ground-breaking research showing the positive effects of child sponsorship …
ESSAY: OHIO – WHEN NEXT DOOR IS A WORLD AWAY
MAL FLETCHER reflects on events in the US this week…