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Churches Launch Four-Day Harvest Festival in Newcastle

The evangelistic crusade, hosted by over 200 churches in the area, will feature a down-to-earth talk about Heaven from Californian pastor and evangelist Greg Laurie as well as nightly performances from top international and Australian musicians..

  • Understanding Creation, Evolution and Intelligent Design

    Some 80 years have passed since the Scopes Monkey Trial sparked a heated battle on teaching creation and evolution in public schools. The public debate is still running, but according to some professors scientific developments have fundamentally shifted the landscape on the discourse by adding relatively new theory - intelligent design - to explain the origins of life.

  • Intelligent Design to Enter Classrooms of School in Australia

    The theory of Intelligent Design (ID) will be entering school classrooms in Australia this year despite of the vigorous debate among secular educators, scientists and Christians across the world, local news agencies reported this past weekend.

  • Chuck Colson Broadcast Adds to Intelligence Debate

    Though Christians ought to know apologetics enough to understand and share faith, Christians must guard against becoming too intellectual, the president of the nation's largest prison ministry said yesterday.

  • Introducing Ethics Could Be Stepping-Stone to Removal of Scripture

    On the 11th August 2004 Catholic educators fear that the introduction of ethics into the NSW public school system could be seen as the first "stepping-stone" to removing scripture lessons from the curriculum where for more than 100 years the scripture has been part of the school timetable. The non-believers on the other hand go to study, the playground or watch videos during the weekly classes.

  • Establishment of Women's Interfaith Fellowship

    On the 9th August 2005 the Commission for Australian Catholic Women (CACW) has established the Young Catholic Women’s Interfaith Fellowship where young catholic women are given a unique chance to break down the barrier of fear created by recent terror attacks and world conflict.

  • Theory of Creation Gaining Traction

    A new theory known as evolution-intelligent design has arrived here in Australia and is being pushed by The Campus Crusade for Christ Australia reported by The Age on 6th August 2005. Intelligent design to its supporters is hard science which should be taught to high school students in their ordinary science class. The theory of intelligent design espouse that Darwin’s evolution theory is wrong because life is so complex that there must have been a higher intelligence involved.

  • Finding God in Harry Potter

    The sixth Harry Potter book, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," is hitting bookstores. According to Reg Grant, a professor of pastoral ministries at Dallas Theological Seminary, more and more Christians are discovering in these novels many lessons to “celebrate and shake hands on,” reported the Dallas Morning News.

  • The First Catholic Liberal Arts College in Australia

    The first Australia Catholic Liberal Arts College in Parramatta in NSW and Campion College in Toongabbie QLD will open in early 2006. The College will soon accept student applications for February intake for admission in the Bachelor of Arts in the Liberal Arts.

  • PCA Rejects Resolution on Public Education

    The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) voted to reject a resolution that would encourage Christian parents to remove their children from public schools on June 16, 2005.

  • Franklin Graham Holds "Historic" Festival in Angola

    A "historic" event in Angola, Africa, transpired June 10-12 with Franklin Graham's "Festival of Hope" crusade, which attracted nearly 47,000 Angolans. Public Christian events have been prevented in Angola since before the Portuguese colonization by the ruling authorities, civil war, and communism.

  • First Translation of Bible into Indigenous Australian Language Complete

    Australia's first complete translation of the Kriol Baibul language has been finished and now the final draft is being checked in preparation for publication in 2007. This project has been 27 years in the making.