Religion News Australia 2017 - 33 (Sept 3 - 10)
(09 September 17)by Greg Spearritt
Religion News Australia
September 3 - 10, 2017
Religion news stories from Australia
(Research: Greg Spearritt)
abuse / anglican church / arts & entertainment / international stories / islam / politics / religion & society
ABUSE
Victims demand plaque depicting sex
offender be removed from St Mary’s Catholic Cathedral (ABC
News)
Sept 7 - Victims of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy are demanding that a
memorial plaque depicting a convicted offender be removed from St Marys
Cathedral in Hobart.
Former Bunbury priest jailed over cartoons
featuring child sex abuse (ABC
News)
Sept 8 - A paedophile former Bunbury priest has been sentenced to 12 months in
jail for possessing comic strips featuring children being sexually abused.
Test of religious freedom (The Australian)
Sept 9 – (Opinion: Gerard Henderson) The royal commission’s recommendation has
little to do with curbing child abuse.
Sexual abuse victim re-traumatised by
Catholic church compensation process (The Guardian, Australia)
Sept 9 - A Victorian woman who was sexually abused as a teenager says the
process of getting compensation from the Catholic church was “unnecessarily
agonising” and sent her to “an absolute state of unwellness”.
Anglicans pass child protection laws (news.com.au)
Sept 9 - Anglican priests across Australia will be required to follow strict
new rules to protect children from abuse after legislation was passed by its
governing body.
ANGLICAN CHURCH
Anglican Church offers formal apology to
victims of domestic violence (ABC
News)
Sept 7 - The Anglican Church of Australia has for the first time apologised to
victims of domestic violence — many of whom, it says, have been let down by
Church leaders and teachings — and pledged to undertake independent research
into the nature and extent of family violence in Anglican communities.
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Loved my Jewish dad, so did Nazi (The Australian)
Sept 6 - Lisa Cortez knew her father Eddie Vitch was a Jewish mime artist who
made Nazi leaders laugh.
INTERNATIONAL STORIES
Anglican Church
New Zealand to rebuild Christchurch
Cathedral more than six years after deadly earthquake (ABC
News)
Sept 9 - More than six years after being destroyed in the deadly earthquake
that struck Christchurch, the city’s iconic cathedral will be rebuilt by the
Anglican Church in New Zealand.
Islam
Islamist groups protest in Jakarta against
persecution of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims (ABC
News)
Sept 6 - Traffic in central Jakarta was brought to a stand-still on Wednesday
afternoon as Islamist groups protested against the persecution of Myanmar’s
Rohingya Muslims.
LGBT crackdown feared in Indonesia after 12
women evicted from home (The
Guardian, Australia)
Sept 6 - Twelve women have been evicted from their home in the conservative
Indonesian province of West Java amid renewed fears of crackdown on sexual
diversity.
’Hijab is beautiful’: designers challenge
Trump at New York fashion week (The
Guardian, Australia)
Sept 8 - The hijab and abaya have taken centre stage on the New York runway as
up-and-coming Indonesian designers kicked off an increasingly diverse fashion
week, hoping to change prejudices in the west.
Religious Violence
IS siege close to end (The Australian)
Sept 4 - One of the longest Islamic State sieges of the Syrian war is close to
being lifted by government forces who are within 3km of victory.
Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi denounces ’terrorists’,
silent on Rohingya exodus (ABC
News)
Sept 6 - Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi has blamed "terrorists" for
"a huge iceberg of misinformation" on the violence in Rakhine state,
but made no mention of the nearly 125,000 Rohingya Muslims who have recently
fled over the border to Bangladesh.
Who are the Rohingya and what is happening
in Myanmar? (The Guardian,
Australia)
Sept 6 - Described as the world’s most persecuted people, 1.1 million Rohingya
people live in Myanmar.
ISLAM
Far-right nationalists face court over
dummy beheading, claim they’re on ’political trial’ (ABC
News)
Sept 4 - Anti-racism protesters have clashed with far-right nationalists
outside a Melbourne court as three men linked to the United Patriots Front
fight allegations they incited racial contempt against Muslims.
Also:
Far-right nationalists found guilty of
inciting serious contempt for Muslims after mock beheading video (ABC
News)
Sept 5 - Three far-right nationalists who staged a mock beheading to protest
against the building of a mosque in Bendigo in central Victoria have been found
guilty of inciting serious contempt of Muslims.
Same-sex marriage debate: conservative
Muslims steer clear for fear of backlash (The Guardian, Australia)
Sept 4 - Muslim Australians who oppose same-sex marriage are afraid to speak
out for fear of being labelled extremists, including by Christian conservatives
who themselves oppose it, a Muslim community leader has said.
’We disempower Muslim women’ (The Australian)
Sept 4 - Magazine founder says Pauline Hanson’s burka “stunt” is symptomatic
of West trying to disempower Muslim women.
POLITICS
Pauline Hanson’s burqa stunt could change
Australian Senate’s dress code (The
Guardian, Australia)
Sept 4 - One Nation leader Pauline Hanson’s burqa stunt could lead to an
overhaul of the Senate’s dress code.
Waverley Liberals accused of using ’sectarian’
flyer to court Jewish vote (Sydney Morning Herald)
Sept 6 - The Jewish vote has become a battleground in a heated council campaign
in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, spurring claims the Liberal Party has sought to
use the Jewish community as "political pawns."
RELIGION & SOCIETY
Sydney church with 145 years of history
sells in five minutes at auction (Sydney Morning Herald)
Sept 6 - A real estate agent outbid several religious groups to buy a
145-year-old church in inner Sydney at auction on Wednesday.
Is nationalism replacing faith? (The Australian)
Sept 6 – (Opinion: Daniel Finkelstein) Politics has been shaped by Christianity
for centuries but now that it’s vanishing, nationalism could take its place.
Lamb ad insensitive and disrespectful, say
Hindus and Anglicans (The
Guardian, Australia)
Sept 6 - A spring lamb campaign full of deities feasting on meat and making
religious jokes has been condemned by Hindu and Anglican representatives as
insensitive and disrespectful.
Same Sex Marriage
The Christian reasons I’ll vote yes (The Australian)
Sept 6 – (Opinion: Greg Sheridan) Christians should compromise on same
sex-marriage but fiercely defend religious freedoms to the very death.
These religious leaders are putting dogma
aside to support same-sex marriage (ABC
News)
Sept 7 - It is well known that the majority of the world’s religions stand in
opposition not only to same-sex marriage but homosexuality.
Conflict, religion and dignity (The Australian)
Sept 8 - Two leading NSW legal voices explore some of the key judicial
arguments for and against same-sex marriage.
Supporters, opponents of same sex marriage
clash outside Brisbane church (The
Courier-Mail, Brisbane)
Sept 8 - SUPPORTERS and opponents of same sex marriage have clashed outside a
Brisbane church following the High Court decision allowing a postal vote to go
ahead.
Christian school urges ’no’ to same-sex
marriage in letter to parents as ’yes’ supporters rally (ABC
News)
Sept 9 - An Adelaide Christian school has sent a letter home to parents urging
them to vote ’no’ in the upcoming postal survey on same-sex marriage.
My dad’s incredible reaction when I came
out as gay (news.com.au)
Sept 9 - PEOPLE often ask me how I reconcile my faith with my sexual
orientation.
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