Religion News Australia
July 14 – 21, 2024
Religion news stories from Australia
(Research: Greg Spearritt)
ABUSE
Sister of Elizabeth Struhs left home because sect would not accept her sexuality, court hears (The Guardian, Australia)
July 15 – The sister of Elizabeth Struhs, whose parents, brother and 11 other members of a religious sect are on trial over her death after she was allegedly taken off life-saving insulin used to treat her diabetes, has told a court she left home at 16 after the group would not accept her sexuality.
INTERNATIONAL STORIES
Anglican Church
Slave trader Colston left bequest to Church of England, archive shows (The Guardian, Australia)
July 18 – The archbishop of Canterbury has spoken of the work to address the Church of England’s historic links to chattel slavery on a trip to Jamaica, as archive research reveals that the slave trader Edward Colston left a bequest in the 18th century to the church’s missionary arm.
Other
Modi claimed he was ‘sent by God’, but has his aura of invincibility cracked? (ABC News)
July 18 – “After my mother died, I began to doubt whether I had biological origins, whether I was born biologically.
RELIGION & SOCIETY
The inspirational selflessness of Dietrich Bonhoeffer offers lessons in healthy masculinity (The Guardian, Australia)
July 15 – (Opinion: Simon Smart) I once stood in the very spot in Flossenbürg concentration camp where the German pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was hanged by the Nazis for his role in a conspiracy to assassinate Hitler.