Religion News Australia 2016 - 38 (Oct 2 - 9)
(08 October 16)by Greg Spearritt
Religion News Australia
October 2 - 9, 2016
Religion news stories from Australia
(Research: Greg Spearritt)
abuse / anglican church / arts & entertainment / education / international stories / religion & society
ABUSE
'It felt sincere':
Jewish child abuse survivor Manny Waks offered apology (ABC News)
Oct 3 - Australian child abuse survivor Manny Waks has received a formal
apology from the Jewish centre he attended as a child, and says there are
positive changes happening in the ultra-orthodox community.
Cardinal Pell associate
banned from preaching in Ireland over abuse allegations (Brisbane Times)
Oct 8 - A controversial Melbourne priest and close associate of Cardinal George
Pell has been banned from ministering in Ireland for committing an act of
sexual abuse that senior Australian church figures have dismissed as simply a
"breach of his vow of celibacy".
ANGLICAN CHURCH
When the Anglican church
can’t follow its own code (Sydney Morning Herald)
Oct 8 – (Opinion: Elizabeth Farrelly) Most Australians are as unsurprised by
skullduggery in the church as by double-dealing in government.
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
My Scientology Movie
review – Louis Theroux gets smart with the cult church (The Guardian, Australia)
Oct 7 - The Church of Scientology is a deeply strange organisation and,
appropriately enough, Louis Theroux has made a strange film about it.
Messiah complex: Greg
Semu recreates the theatre of Christ's death (Sydney Morning Herald)
Oct 8 - Portraying the body of Christ is hungry work.
Catholic girls and
unholy trinity (The Australian)
Oct 8 - It sounds like every parent’s nightmare: a group of Catholic
schoolgirls let loose in the big city.
EDUCATION
Revealed:
multimillion-dollar surpluses of Australia's most overfunded private schools (Sydney Morning
Herald)
Oct 8 - Some of Australia's wealthiest private schools are running
multimillion-dollar surpluses with the help of excess taxpayer funding, prompting
fresh calls for the Turnbull government to tackle inequalities in the education
system.
NSW principal outrages
parents by using 'inappropriate, offensive' image during speech (Sydney Morning Herald)
Oct 9 - The principal of a NSW Catholic school has come under fire for using an
"inappropriate and offensive" image during a speech to high school
graduates and their families.
INTERNATIONAL STORIES
Anglican Church
Desmond Tutu: I want
right to end my life through assisted dying (The Guardian, Australia)
Oct 8 - Desmond Tutu has said he would like the option of ending his life
through assisted dying as he called on politicians, lawmakers and religious
leaders to take action on the issue.
Catholic Church
Pope expedites sainthood
for slain priest Father Jacques Hamel (Brisbane Times)
Oct 3 - Paris: Pope Francis has put a French priest knifed to death at his
altar by Islamist militants in July on the fast track to possible sainthood,
the Archbishop of Rouen Dominique Lebrun says.
Islam
Mike Pence backtracks on
Donald Trump's proposal to ban Muslims (The Age, Melbourne)
Oct 8 - The Trump campaign appeared to disavow one of its most provocative
policy proposals on Thursday, as Governor Mike Pence of Indiana said explicitly
that Donald Trump no longer wants to impose a temporary ban on Muslim
immigration to the United States.
Judaism
Philippines' leader
apologises to Jewish community after Hitler remarks (ABC News)
Oct 3 - Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has apologised "profoundly
and deeply" to the Jewish community, and said his references to the
Holocaust while discussing his war on drugs were intended to hit back at
critics.
Religious Violence
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and
three other IS commanders poisoned by assassin (news.com.au)
Oct 4 - ISLAMIC State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is at death’s door after
being poisoned by a mystery assassin in Iraq, it has been reported.
Thailand peace talks
shaky as insurgents continue to kill, detonate bombs (ABC News)
Oct 4 - Sitting in a darkened room, the former insurgent says he has lost count
of how many bombs he has helped make, but it is well over 100.
IS end ‘to set loose
militants’ (The Australian)
Oct 7 - Militants are expected to flood the international system following the
likely collapse of the IS caliphate.
UN Syria envoy urges
jihadists (The Australian)
Oct 8 - The UN envoy to Syria has offered personally to escort jihadist
fighters out of the besieged city of Aleppo.
Other
Thousands of black-clad
Poles protest abortion ban proposal (ABC News)
Oct 4 - Thousands of Poles dressed in black have marched through city streets
in Poland, closing down government offices, restaurants and other businesses in
protest against a petition for a total ban
RELIGION & SOCIETY
Marriage equality:
Christian lobby backs legal help for businesses refusing gay couples (The Guardian, Australia)
Oct 5 - An organisation founded by the Australian Christian Lobby plans to
bankroll legal cases for business owners who refuse to provide services to gay
couples should marriage equality be legalised.
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