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Journalist scrutinises religion beat amid spiritual ‘intolerance’

The theological and political divisions within the US religious landscape have made the once-quiet "religion beat" one of the most interesting, if intense, journalistic assignments in the United States today, writes a prominent award-winning reporter who covers religion. "As a reporter covering religion at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for the last four years, I’ve been a witness to attitudes and ...

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Indian churches say bomb blasts highlight ‘culture of violence’

Churches in India have joined in widespread condemnation of a series of bomb blasts in Jaipur, the capital of the country’s western desert state of Rajasthan, in which 65 people were killed and more than 200 were injured. Police reported seven successive blasts within a span of 12 minutes in a radius of two kilometres around busy market and tourist ...

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Uniting Church National Director welcomes general thrust of Budget

UnitingCare Australia National Director and ACOSS President, Lin Hatfield Dodds said she was pleased with the overall direction of the Federal Budget. “This Budget is a down payment on social inclusion,” she said. “We are pleased that low income and disadvantaged people were spared from most of the Budget cuts “We welcome the changes made to the Job Network to ...

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Indian churches seek ‘greening of faith’, ‘plastic-free campuses’

The National Council of Churches in India has joined the battle to turn green by calling for Christians to mobilise in the world’s second most populous nation, and to join in the fight against global warming. "We urge all member churches to initiate on war footing green parish programs, plastic-free church campuses, biological farming," exhorted the closing message from the ...

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Uniting Church President urges support for Burma Cyclone Appeal

As the tragic reality of the Burma cyclone continues to emerge, Uniting International Mission, through its relief and development division Uniting Church Overseas Aid, has launched the UCOA Burma Cyclone Appeal. This has followed discussions between Kerry Enright, Director of Uniting Church Overseas Aid and Alistair Gee, Executive Director of Christian World Service, the International and Development arm of the ...

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Blue Care nurses celebrate International Nurses Day

Blue Care nurses will join millions of colleagues around the world today to celebrate International Nurses Day. This year’s theme “Delivering Quality, Serving Communities – Nurses Leading Primary Health Care” is particularly relevant to Blue Care, which employs more than 3000 nurses across Queensland and northern New South Wales. Blue Care Executive Director Stephen Muggleton said International Nurses Day was ...

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Top scholar visiting Brisbane

Internationally recognised New Testament scholar and outspoken commentator on popular culture, Professor Robert Jewett will be visiting Brisbane in June. Professor Jewett has been a most influential commentator on the Apostle Paul’s writings and has written many books on religious and cultural history, and particularly the application of biblical themes in the movies. Trinity Theological College Director of New Testament ...

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Global aid agencies wait for visas to aid Burma

Christian organizations throughout the world are calling for aid and support for the stricken people of Myanmar (Burma) of whom about 62 000 are believed to have lost their lives due to a typhoon. But the United Nations suspended relief supplies there on 9 May after the military government seized food and equipment that had been sent. In reports from ...

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Russian Patriarch prays for, and praises, Putin successor Medvedev

President Vladimir Putin’s successor, Dmitry Medvedev, was inaugurated in the Kremlin with pomp, circumstance, and prayers from Patriarch Alexei II of the Russian Orthodox Church. After the main ceremony on 7 May, at a moleben, or prayer service, in a Kremlin cathedral, the Patriarch, who had stood in the front of the hall during the swearing-in, paid tribute to the ...

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