Religion News Selection 41 (Oct 29 - Nov 5)
(04 November 17)by Greg Spearritt
Religion News Selection
October 29 – November 5, 2017
A
selection of religion news stories from Australia.
(Research: Greg Spearritt)
Inclusion here does not endorse the veracity or quality of any particular item
– it just means
I found it worth reading and reflecting on (even if badly conceived or poorly
written).
If you’re after the
unexpurgated (and reasonably unbiased) version,
see Religion News Australia which
appears weekly on our website.
ABUSE
Churches to be covered by the ACT’s
reportable conduct scheme from July 2018 (Sydney Morning Herald)
Nov 2 - Churches will finally be covered by the ACT’s reportable conduct
scheme from July 1 next year.
’Their cross to bear’: The Catholic women
told to forgive domestic violence (ABC
News)
Nov 4 - Over the past three decades spent working for the Catholic Church,
Maria George has been exposed to dozens of women who have survived intimate
partner violence.
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
How Bob Dylan found God, and his fans found
another boxset to buy (ABC News)
Nov 4 - It reads like a scene from a bad movie.
EDUCATION
Catholics warn of more school closures in
Victoria under Gonski 2.0 (The
Age, Melbourne)
Oct 30 - Victoria’s Catholic education body is warning of school closures
under the Turnbull government’s Gonski 2.0 funding model, with two Melbourne
schools set to shut this year.
INTERNATIONAL STORIES
Catholic Church
Pope Francis admits: ’When I pray,
sometimes I fall asleep’ (The
Guardian, Australia)
Nov 1 - Pope Francis has confessed he sometimes nods off while praying, and
claims saints too have been known to grab some Holy shut-eye.
Islam
Frenchwomen accuse Islamic scholar of
sexual assault (Sydney Morning
Herald)
Oct 30 - Paris: Amid a recent outpouring by Frenchwomen reporting episodes of
sexual harassment and naming their aggressors, two women have accused a
renowned Islamic scholar of violent sexual attacks.
Saudi women riled by robot with no hjiab
and more rights than them (Sydney Morning Herald)
Nov 2 - Women in Saudi Arabia have scorned the government’s decision to grant
"citizenship" to a female robot who, unlike them, does not need a
male guardian nor have to cover her head in public.
SingleMuslim.com: how the Yorkshire dating site
transformed Muslim romance (The
Guardian, Australia)
Nov 5 - The business books tell you to follow your heart.
Religious Violence
Sorcery-related violence surges in PNG as
women attacked and murdered, accused of witchcraft (ABC
News)
Oct 29 - Community leaders in Papua New Guinea have said they are at a loss to
explain a recent upsurge in sorcery-related violence that most often targets
women, in some parts of the country.
Bin Laden’s disdain for the west grew in
Shakespeare’s birthplace, journal shows (The Guardian, Australia)
Nov 2 - A summer trip to the UK as a teenager and visits to Shakespeare’s
birthplace convinced Osama bin Laden that the west was “decadent”, the late
leader of al-Qaida and architect of the 9/11 attacks wrote in his personal
journal shortly before he was killed by US special forces in 2011.
Islamic State is on the brink of collapse
after recent defeats (news.com.au)
Nov 4 - WITH new losses, the Islamic State group has been driven from more than
96 per cent of the large parts of Iraq and Syria it once held, crushing its
goal of establishing a “caliphate” in the region.
Other
Halloween light parties put a Christian
spin on haunted celebrations (The
Guardian, Australia)
Oct 29 - In the face of the sugar-saturated pagan onslaught that is now
Halloween, the humble parish church is staging a fightback in which
superheroes, subversive pumpkins, circus skills and bouncy castles have become its
weapons of choice.
Hardline Hindu nationalists campaign
against Taj Mahal (The Guardian,
Australia)
Oct 31 - Times are tough for India’s monument to love.
Catholic and Protestant leaders unite to
mark start of Reformation (The
Guardian, Australia)
Oct 31 - Catholic and Protestant leaders will stress their mutual bonds 500
years after the start of the Reformation, a movement which tore apart western
Christianity and sparked a string of bloody religious wars in Europe lasting
more than a century.
RELIGION & SOCIETY
The God question: listen to your inner
voice (The Australian)
Oct 28 – (Opinion: Greg Sheridan) It is more rational to believe in God than to
believe there is no God.
Seven reasons Martin Luther and the
Protestant Reformation still matter today (ABC
News)
Oct 31 - It’s been 500 years since upstart priest Martin Luther nailed his 95
Theses to a church door — or so legend goes — and split the Catholic Church
right down the middle.
Catholic, Anglican bishops unite in
opposition to Adani mega-mine (Sydney Morning Herald)
Oct 31 - It may have the Turnbull and Palaszczuk governments firmly in its
corner, but the Adani super-mine is facing a formidable new opponent: the
Christian faith.
’An evil, satanic tradition’: Halloween
celebrations divide Perth (Sydney Morning Herald)
Oct 31 - While celebrating Halloween has become increasingly popular in WA, it
seems not all Perth residents have gotten into the spooky spirit.
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