Updated: Rugby Australia intends to sack Folau over “discriminatory” post
Updated: 7am, 12th AprilSydney, AustraliaReuters Rugby Australia said on Thursday it would terminate the contract of Israel Folau, the country’s best-known and best-paid player, if he cannot offer a good reason for a social media post that said gay people would go to “hell” if they did not “repent”. The 30-year-old fullback, a fundamentalist Christian, […]
Sudan’s Bashir forced to step down after mass protests
Updated 10pmKhartoum, SudanReuters Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir was deposed by the army on Thursday and consultations were under way to form a transitional council to run the country, drawing a line under three decades of autocratic power that included allegations of genocide. Sudanese sources told Reuters that Bashir, 75, was at the presidential residence under […]
GREENSIGHT: THE ‘SUPH’ OR THE CATTAIL
ALVIN JOHNSON looks at where the “suph” or cattail appears in the Bible…
BOOKS: SHORT STORIES SHINE A LIGHT ON SOCIETY’S MARGINS
DAVID ADAMS reads Hope Shines, an anthology of short stories…
Soundbite – The TCM Update: Billboard nominations are in
Lauren Daigle, who will be performing at the awards, is among those nominated in the Billboard awards. Listen to this week’s TCM update…
Bangladesh pledges to bring Vanuatu trafficking victims home
Dhaka, BangladeshThomson Reuters Foundation Bangladesh has begun steps to bring home 101 trafficking victims stranded in Vanuatu after they were lured there with the promise of work that never materialised, a government official said on Wednesday. The migrants, who include two minors, have been stuck in the remote Pacific island nation since November when four […]
World churches’ body renews calls for release of two archbishops kidnapped in Syria
The World Council of Churches has renewed calls for the release of two archbishops who were abducted from a car near Syria’s border with Turkey in April, 2013. PICTURE: Courtesy WCC In a communique released this week, the WCC’s permanent committee on consensus and collaboration expressed its solidarity with the Orthodox churches in Syria and […]
US: IN TEXAS, FAITH-BASED BILLS ADVANCE IN DEFIANCE OF “ALMIGHTY DOLLAR”
MAX B BAKER reports for Religion News Service on the “culture war” brewing in the southern US state of Texas…
Australian Christian Lobby expresses fears over Tasmania’s move to make gender optional on birth certificates
The Australian Christian Lobby has expressed fears a move to make it optional for people living in the southern Australian island state of Tasmania to list gender on their birth certificates could endanger women. Dan Flynn, the organisation’s acting state director for Tasmania, said the passing of a marriage amendments bill would now allow for “regular […]
ESSAY: IN QUÉBEC, CHRISTIAN LIBERALISM BECOMES THE RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY
In an article first published on The Conversation, HANNAH DICK, of Canada’s Carleton University, looks at a proposed new “secularism law” in the Canadian province of Québec…