Queensland Synod News

Increasing interest in Christianity among Chinese intellectuals is transforming the country’s religious landscape, says Edmond Tang, an academic and consultant on China for British and Irish churches. "Today it is an open secret that Christian fellowships, a new kind of ‘house church’, run by Chinese professors and students, are active in most Chinese universities," said Tang in comments marking the ...

At a special time of worship and celebration at Townsville Central Uniting Church last Sunday the North Queensland Presbytery recognized the Korean Christian Faith Community Townsville as a Faith Community within the Uniting Church. The service also recognized Myeong-Hee Seo as the Pastor in that Faith Community. Presbytery Minister Rev Bruce Cornish said a special part of the evening was ...

The Wesley Hospital will be able to treat hundreds more patients every year following the construction of a $97 million acute care facility. The eight-storey complex will include a day surgery floor of 42 beds and a total of 120 acute care beds on four other floors. The new building, known as the East Wing, will also accommodate two floors ...

One half of the Nova 106.9 Breakfast Team, David Lutteral and Ashley Bradnam joined over 120 other golfers on Friday, March 16 to help raise in excess of $45,000 for the Intensive Care Unit at St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital. The 12th St Andrew’s annual fundraising golf day was held at the Indooroopilly Golf Club in Brisbane. Money raised from ...

Zimbabwe Roman Catholic Archbishop Pius Ncube has called for "peaceful" street protests against the 27-year rule of President Robert Mugabe who has cracked down on opposition protests with ferocity as his country faces economic meltdown. "It’s time for a radical stance and not soft speeches and cowardice and the time is now," Ncube told a 22 March meeting organized by ...

Blessings for people living in same-sex relationships triggered heated debate at a meeting of the main governing body of the Lutheran World Federation in the southern Swedish city of Lund, this week. The LWF, which first met in Lund 60 years ago with a Europe in ruins and recovering from the devastation of the Second World War, on 22 March ...

The transatlantic slave trade was an "African holocaust" that should never be forgotten, says a coalition of global church bodies that has called on churches, governments and businesses to repent for their part in the trade. "The global slave trade removed some of the most productive peoples in Africa, resulting in the African holocaust," said delegates representing the World Council ...

The Church of Sweden, the largest national church in the Lutheran World Federation, says it will oppose a recommendation made on 21 March by a one-person commission to the country’s government that laws should be passed to enable homosexual couples to marry. "We support the view that matrimony is between a man and a woman. This is a commonly accepted ...

About 140 elderly people in Warwick and Allora-Clifton will benefit from new funding of more than $165,000 for Blue Care. Blue Care Warwick and Allora-Clifton Director of Nursing Sue Hoopmann said the funds were awarded through the State/Commonwealth Home and Community Care (HACC) program. “We are delighted to receive new funding of $165,000 to extend our quality caring services across ...

The leader of a Japanese Christian group that concerns itself with nuclear disasters has protested against a nuclear power plant accident in central Japan that was covered up for years. "This is an injustice that cannot be tolerated. We strongly protest [against the accident cover-up]," said Yoshiko Bannai, chairperson of the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster Issue Project of the National Christian ...