Religion News Selection 6 (Feb 3 - 10)
(09 February 19)by Greg Spearritt
Religion News Selection
February 3 - 10, 2019
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
Archbishop spent $473,000 in child abuse
inquiry legal fees without proper authorisation (The Guardian, Australia)
Feb 8 - The former Anglican archbishop Roger Herft spent almost half a million
dollars for his legal representation before the child sexual abuse royal
commission without proper authorisation from the diocese of Perth, which has
not asked him to reimburse the money.
EDUCATION
Tasmania has shown it can protect LGBTI
students' rights — why can't the rest of the nation? (ABC
News)
Feb 8 – (Opinion: Sam Watson) I came out as gay in Year 9 at a Tasmanian
Catholic school.
'We could be fired tomorrow': Activists
demand support for LGBTI teachers (The
Age, Melbourne)
Feb 9 - Armed with signs, and the occasional umbrella, a small group of
activists braved Melbourne's summer rain to demand Australian politicians end
discrimination against LGBTI teachers.
INTERNATIONAL STORIES
Abuse
Priests held nuns in 'sexual slavery', Pope
Francis admits (ABC News)
Feb 6 - Pope Francis has for the first time publicly acknowledged the scandal
of priests and bishops sexually abusing nuns and says he is committed to doing more
to fight the problem.
Judaism
Trump shamelessly used Jewish Americans in
State of the Union address (The
Age, Melbourne)
Feb 6 – (Opinion: CJ Werleman) When US President Donald Trump delivered his
second State of the Union, he had one objective in mind – to re-energise his
to-date failing effort to construct a wall along the southern US border.
Antisemitic incidents in UK at record high
for third year in a row (The
Guardian, Australia)
Feb 7 - Jewish community leaders and politicians have condemned a third
successive year with a record number of antisemitic incidents.
Religious Violence
Isis leader believed to have fled coup
attempt by his own fighters (The
Guardian, Australia)
Feb 8 - The Isis leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, survived a coup attempt last
month launched by foreign fighters in his eastern Syrian hideout, intelligence
officials believe, and the terrorist group has since placed a bounty on the
main plotter’s head.
'The Taliban took years of my life': the
Afghan women living in the shadow of war (The Guardian, Australia)
Feb 9 – (Opinion: )g Homeira Qaderi was ironing her headscarf for
school when her father came to tell her she would no longer need it, because
the Taliban had captured her hometown.
Other
'I would stay far away': Katherine Kelly
Lang's strong message on Scientology (The Age, Melbourne)
Feb 4 - Controversial religious system Scientology might be popular among the
Hollywood elite, but don't count The Bold and the Beautiful star Katherine
Kelly Lang as one of its fans.
The life and death of John Chau, the man
who tried to convert his killers (The
Guardian, Australia)
Feb 4 - One day, as a small child, John Allen Chau was rooting through his
father’s study when he found something curious and alluring: an illustrated
edition of Robinson Crusoe, the classic story of a sailor shipwrecked on a
deserted island.
Many people in mostly Christian countries
believe values clash with Islam – poll (The Guardian, Australia)
Feb 4 - Large numbers of people in Christian-majority countries in the west see
a fundamental clash between Islam and the values of their nation, according to
a survey.
ISLAM
Lawyers back Muslim community after
controversial comments from bench (The
Age, Melbourne)
Feb 8 - The peak body for the legal profession in Australia has called for
better "communication and understanding of the Islamic faith" by
lawyers and judges, days after a NSW Supreme Court judge courted controversy by
urging Muslims to publicly disavow violence in the Koran.
JUDAISM
Anti-Semitic attack part of a growing trend
of “extremely worrying” behaviour (news.com.au)
Feb 10 - Australia’s Jewish community is disgusted by the latest targeted
anti-Semitic attack, which they say is part of a growing racist trend across
the country.
POLITICS
‘Remove the burqa’: female tradie named as
One Nation’s star candidate for NSW election (news.com.au)
Feb 4 - Pauline Hanson’s One Nation yesterday named a Muslim woman as its
newest candidate for the upcoming New South Wales election.
RELIGION & SOCIETY
Female genital mutilation: 53,000
Australians have had procedure, report estimates (The Guardian, Australia)
Feb 5 - An estimated 53,000 women and girls born overseas and now living in
Australia have undergone female genital mutilation in their lifetime, data
released by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare on Wednesday found.
Franklin Graham walks in his father's
footsteps - and Trump's shadow (The
Age, Melbourne)
Feb 9 - In 1959 American preacher Billy Graham came to Australia in what proved
not only the most important religious event in Australian history but has been
called the most successful evangelistic endeavour in the history of the world.
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