Queensland Synod News

Over 2000 people attended the official dedication service and launch of the Kriol Baibul, the first complete Bible in an indigenous language, held yesterday, Saturday, 5 May, at the Katherine Christian Convention conference centre in the Northern Territory. Rev Daniel Willis CEO of Bible Society of NSW said, “The service was conducted in Kriol with the Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne ...

Zimbabwe President President Robert Mugabe has warned Roman Catholic bishops who published a pastoral letter criticising his government over the country’s mounting economic and economic crises, saying that they have chosen "a dangerous path". Mugabe said the bishops had become political. He described the letter written by the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops Conference and read to congregations across the country on ...

Patriarch Alexei II of the Russian Orthodox Church has made his first public appearance in Moscow following a swirl of recent rumours that he had died or fallen gravely ill while receiving medical treatment in Switzerland. The Patriarch said on 2 May the rumours may have been part of an effort to scuttle the scheduled Ascension Day reunion of the ...

Innovative and sophisticated technologies could transform the future delivery of aged care said Blue Care executive director Stephen Muggleton. Mr Muggleton spoke at the launch of the Queensland Smart Homes Initiative (QSHI), which showcases the use of information technology in supporting independent living. As part of the QSHI, an independent living unit at Blue Care Iona Village in Brisbane has ...

Rev Dr Tony Floyd has been appointed as the new Uniting Church National Director of Multicultural and Cross-cultural Ministry . Dr Floyd, who himself emigrated from England, has worked in ministry based with congregations in Victoria, Tasmania, and Chicago. He succeeds Rev Helen Richmond in this position. Multi/cross-cultural connection both with migrant and Indigenous Australians has been a feature of Dr Floyd’s ...

The Rev V. Gene Robinson, the first openly gay bishop in the worldwide Anglican Communion, says he and his male partner plan to affirm their relationship under a new law on civil unions enacted in the US state of New Hampshire. That announcement came as Nigerian Archbishop Peter J. Akinola, an outspoken critic of the US Episcopal Church’s consecration of ...

 “I’M NOT that smart I’m just quick,” Youth Worker Andrew Fox told Journey after his winning cleanup of television’s Temptation game show. Minister of the Kawana Uniting Church Congregation on the Sunshine Coast Mr Fox had a five night winning streak in the week before Easter taking home a total $105,000 in cash and prizes. This was Mr Fox’s third ...

Global migration poses new challenges for churches worldwide, the general secretary of the World Council of Churches has told Christians in Wales at the start of a trip to Britain and Ireland. The phenomenon is the "human side" of globalisation – especially for churches, the Rev. Samuel Kobia said in remarks to staff of Cytun (Churches Together in Wales) and ...

Patriarch Alexei II of the Russian Orthodox Church has praised Boris Yeltsin, the first president of Russia, who has died of heart failure in Moscow, for enabling a religious revival that took place across the former communist country during his presidency. "In the new Russia, to the building of which the departed president directed his efforts, the Russian Orthodox Church ...

The killing of three Christians at a religious publishing house in eastern Turkey has triggered strong condemnation by US and international church and advocacy groups. Twelve suspects were charged on 22 April with the killings of the three men, Necati Aydin and Ugur Yuksel, both Turkish Christians, and Tilman Ekkehart Geske, a German national, in slayings that have prompted concerns ...