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Aussie Miner Accused Over Malawi Mine Safety

Australian owned uranium miner, Paladin (Africa) Limited has pledged to fulfil its social responsibilities after the local Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace accused the company over alleged injuries and deaths at a Malawi mine. .

  • Leaders Establish Religious Liberty Centre

    Prominent Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders, including Sydney Cardinal George Pell, have joined to form a lobby group, the Ambrose Centre for Religious Liberty, to fight what they say is the growing threat to religious freedom in Australia. The Ambrose Centre will be launched at NSW Parliament House tonight and formally brings together for the first time the leaders of several religious groups, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.

  • Pope Would Have Quit If Captured by Nazis

    Pope Pius XII, who led the Roman Catholic Church during the Second World War, told leading bishops that if he was ever captured by the Nazis his resignation would take immediate effect and that the Church leadership would move to another country.

  • New Reality TV Series Highlights Christian Group's Life-Saving Efforts

    Airing throughout this month will be the pilot episode for a new reality TV series, "Children's Heart," which offers an inside look into how one organization is bringing children to the United States for live-saving surgery not available in their own countries.

  • Seven Network Responds to Backlash Against Lesbian Kiss on Home And Away

    The Seven Network was recently forced to tone down a lesbian kissing scene in its family soapie Home and Away after a viewer backlash. Since the lesbian story-line became public knowledge, 100,000 viewers have turned off and complaints have been flooding in. The decision to play down the scene came after complaints from conservative lobby groups were followed by complaints from viewers. Producers were forced to cut some of the more intimate close-up images of policewoman Charlie Buckton and deck

  • 50 Houses a Day In Nsw Have Electricity Cut Off

    As many as 50 households a day in NSW are having their electricity disconnected because they cannot afford their bill, even though suppliers must offer payment plans to help families in financial difficulties. The latest data shows electricity was cut off from 18,162 households in NSW in 2007-08, down marginally from 18,339 a year earlier. Of these, 31.5 per cent were on payment plans before being cut off, 14.5 per cent were pensioners and 9.8 per cent had been cut off more than once in the prev

  • Victorian Abortion Law Under Challenge

    The federal Attorney-General is under increasing pressure from within his own party to use his powers to overturn Victoria\'s new abortion laws, which leading lawyers and Catholic hospitals say are in breach of international law. At issue is a clause in the new legislation that forces doctors who oppose abortion to declare their belief and refer patients seeking terminations to specialists who are willing to provide the procedure.

  • Australia is Freer Than Most Other Nations – Don't Spoil it with a Charter of Rights!

    "Charters of rights are full of lofty abstractions and generalisations," said Hon Bob Carr at a FamilyVoice forum in Sydney on 20 April. "But what do those rights mean in practice? It is unelected judges, not democratic parliaments, who would decide."

  • Vandals Hit Gold Coast Madonna Statue

    Vandals have damaged and stolen a statue of the Virgin Mary from Marymount College on Queensland\'s Gold Coast.

  • NSW Couples Turn Away from Religious Wedding Ceremonies

    NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages figures show that celebrants performed 60.6 percent of ceremonies in 2008, compared to 39.4 percent for religious weddings.

  • Humanist Joins BBC Committee on Religious Broadcasting

    A new independent body set up to liaise with the BBC on its religious broadcasting is to include a humanist.

  • Kirk Magazine Criticises Traditionalists on Homosexuality

    The official magazine of the Church of Scotland has criticised traditionalists who use the Bible to justify a position against homosexual practice.