Religion News Australia 2016 - 16 (Apr 17 - 24)
(23 April 16)by Greg Spearritt
Religion News Australia
April 17 - 24, 2016
Religion news stories from Australia
(Research: Greg Spearritt)
abuse / arts & entertainment / education / international stories / islam / politics / religion & society
ABUSE
Student given sedative
before being raped by priest at Sunbury boarding school, court told (ABC
News)
Apr 19 - A Catholic priest drugged a student with a sedative-laced soft drink
before raping him in his office at a boarding school in Melbourne's outer
north-west almost 30 years ago, a court has been told.
Blind-reported child sex
abuse cases may be reopened after hundreds not investigated (ABC News)
Apr 20 - Hundreds of cases of child sex abuse going back decades may be
reopened after the Catholic Church publicly abandoned a controversial practice
known as blind reporting.
Neerkol orphanage probe
raises systemic abuse issues (Sydney
Morning Herald)
Apr 22 - Sadistic nuns at a notorious Queensland orphanage dished out abuse in
a toxic environment that festered due in part to inadequate government
scrutiny, supervision and training, a royal commission has found.
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
When Waleed Aly met
Susan Carland (The Australian)
Apr 22 - Waleed Aly was 16 and living with his parents when Susan Carland, also
16 at the time, knocked on his door.
EDUCATION
Fire engulfs building at
Wesley College, Glen Waverley (The
Age, Melbourne)
Apr 20 - A fire that ripped through ten classrooms at an exclusive Melbourne
school was caused by an electrical fault.
The horrifying religious
instruction classes planned for Qld schools (Brisbane Times)
Apr 21 - This semester's planned religious instruction classes ask
10-year-old's to act out a beheading.
Generate Ministries to
reap $4m from National School Chaplaincy scheme in 2016 (Sydney Morning Herald)
Apr 24 - Evangelical Christian groups continue to dominate funding granted in
the National School Chaplaincy scheme, earning millions of dollars despite new
rules imposed by the NSW education department.
INTERNATIONAL STORIES
Catholic Church
Vatican’s suspension of
major PwC audit exposes internal rift (The Guardian, Australia)
Apr 22 - The Vatican has suspended its first audit by a major accounting firm
in a move that raises new questions about the Catholic church’s commitment to
cleaning up its finances.
Islam
Swiss halt Muslim
family's citizenship process after refusal to shake hands (The Guardian, Australia)
Apr 20 - Switzerland has suspended the citizenship process for the family of
two teenage Muslim brothers after the boys’ refusal to shake hands with their
female teachers sparked a national debate over religious freedoms.
#HijabDay: European
students don headscarves to promote tolerance. It didn't go that well (Sydney Morning Herald)
Apr 22 - "France got 99 problems -- But hijab ain't one," one poster
held aloft by French student activists read Wednesday.
Latvia wants to ban
full-face veils, for all three women who wear them (Sydney Morning Herald)
Apr 23 - Zaube, Latvia: With her niqab,
a face-covering Islamic veil that reveals just the wearer's eyes, Liga Legzdina
stands out amid pine trees, grasslands and wood-paneled cottages in the Latvian
hamlet of Zaube.
Religious Violence
Jihadis plan to bomb
resorts (The Australian)
Apr 20 - European security services have warned of Islamic State plots to
attack Mediterranean beach resorts.
Islamic State could
steal Pakistan's nuclear weapons and make 'dirty bomb', defence analysts warn (ABC News)
Apr 21 - The mounting concern of an Islamic State presence in Pakistan has put
the spotlight on the security of the country's nuclear arsenal.
Ultra-Orthodox Jew
Yishai Schlissel guilty of gay hate stabbings (The Australian)
Apr 21 - An Israeli court yesterday convicted an ultra-Orthodox man of murder
and six counts of attempted murder over stabbings at a Jerusalem Gay Pride parade
last July that killed a 16-year-old girl.
Bangladeshi professor
killed in suspected Islamist attack (ABC News)
Apr 21 - Unidentified attackers hacked to death a university professor in
Bangladesh, police said, adding that the assault bore the hallmarks of previous
killings by Islamist militants of secular and atheist activists.
Islamic State offers $50
a month to fighters - but more if they own sex slaves (Sydney Morning Herald)
Apr 23 - Washington: The base salary offered to the worker named al-Jiburi was
a pittance, just $US50 a month. But even the cash-challenged Islamic State knew
it had to do more to sustain the loyalty of a man with nine mouths to feed.
ISIS executes 250 girls
for refusing to become sex slaves (news.com.au)
Apr 23 - ISLAMIC State militants have reportedly executed 250 women after they
refused to take part in sexual jihad.
Islamic State ‘wires’
entire suburbs to blow, senior army official reveals (news.com.au)
Apr 24 - IT is well understood that the Islamic State is a new kind of enemy,
but the head of the Australian forces at Iraq’s Camp Taji, north of Baghdad,
describes a new kind of war – albeit one with echoes to the past.
Also:
Islamic State mines kill
dozens of civilians returning to Ramadi (Seven News)
Apr 24 - BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Explosives planted by Islamic State have killed
dozens of Iraqi civilians who returned to Ramadi despite warnings that much of
the western city remains unsafe nearly four months after its recapture from the
militants.
Other
Governor rejects push to
recognise Bible as 'official state book of Tennessee' (The Age, Melbourne)
Apr 18 - Los Angeles: The official rock of Tennessee is limestone.
Fortescue Metals Group
loses Peter Meurs to the Mormons (The
Age, Melbourne)
Apr 18 - It took something special to lure former Worley Parsons executive
Peter Meurs away from the board of Fortescue Metals Group.
Melting pot of beliefs
in Colombo (Seven News)
Apr 18 - In the middle of a Colombo street, four shirtless men are beating
drums as a rush of people surge past them.
How my camera helped me
re-focus on my faith (The
Guardian, Australia)
Apr 22 – (Opinion: Jim Grover) One Friday afternoon in late summer of 2014, I
walked into a church that I had never entered, even though it is just around
the corner from my home of 17 years, in Clapham, south London.
ISLAM
Grand mufti sues News
Corp's Daily Telegraph for defamation (The Guardian, Australia)
Apr 23 - The grand mufti of Australia is suing Sydney’s Daily Telegraph for
defamation over two stories and a front page it ran in the aftermath of the
Paris terrorist attacks depicting him as the three “unwise” monkeys.
POLITICS
Bob Baldwin
'embarrassed' after attending 'anti-muslim' meeting (Sydney Morning Herald)
Apr 23 - A federal MP who attended a protest meeting for a group linked to
Reclaim Australia says he was "embarrassed and disappointed" that the
event had an "anti muslim" agenda.
Scott Morrison tells
Australian Christian Lobby budget will focus on tax and jobs (The Guardian, Australia)
Apr 23 - Jobs, economic growth and tax reform will be priorities in thecoming
federal budget, the treasurer, Scott Morrison, has told a conference of the
Australian Christian Lobby.
RELIGION & SOCIETY
Divided Melbourne: when
the archbishop turned St Patrick's Day into propaganda (The Guardian, Australia)
Apr 22 - Fourteen Australian recipients of the highest Commonwealth military
honour, the Victoria Cross, are mounted on grey charges.
Faith: The journey
begins with language (Brisbane
Times)
Apr 23 – (Opinion: Gary Heard ) Learning to speak another language is a
challenging exercise, but the older one is, the more difficult the challenge.
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