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Christian Family Fighting Adoption of Children by Gay Couple

A Christian family are fighting a last minute legal battle to prevent their children being adopted by a gay couple..

  • Solomon Islands Seeks to Resolve Past Tensions Through Truth and Reconciliation

    The Solomon Islands Government is moving to set up a Truth & Reconciliation Commission in an endeavour to discover the truth about the ethnic tension experienced in 2006 in the Solomons - the underlying causes of the tension and who started it. It will collect and process the stories from both the victims and perpetrators of the violence. The Government has established a National Selection Committee (NSC) chaired by the Chief Justice Sir Albert Palmer to select five commissioners, three of whom

  • Iowa Court Legalizes Gay Marriage

    Same-sex marriage has been legalized in Iowa.

  • Anti-abortion Youth Group 'Revelation Tour' Draws Fire Across NSW and VIC

    Melbourne based group, Youth for Life, has drawn fire over its \"revelation tour\" of anti-abortion protests in NSW and Victoria for which it has sponsored the participation of four American \"friends\".

  • G20 Agree Global Deal to Tackle Recession

    World leaders at the G20 summit have finalised a global deal in a bid to lift the world out of the economic crisis.

  • Dawkins Calls Pope 'Stupid' for Condom Comments

    Atheist Richard Dawkins has called Pope Benedict XVI "stupid" for saying that condoms can increase the problem of Aids.

  • Sweden Becomes 7th Country to Allow Same-Sex Marriage

    Sweden has adopted a law that legalizes same-sex marriage, making it the seventh country in the world to allow gay and lesbian couples to wed in either a religious or civil ceremony.

  • Catholic Bishop Rejects Glamorisation of Suicide

    Bishop Christopher Prowse, Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne, said today that he was deeply distressed by the suffering and death of Angie Belecciu.

  • Federal Government Returns to a Harm Minimalisation Policy on Heroin

    The Federal Government has reasserted the role of controversial harm-reduction strategies in the fight against the illicit drug trade. As law enforcement and health workers report an increase in the amount of heroin on Australia\'s streets and the number of overdoses, Australian National Council on Drugs executive director Gino Vumbaca said the change of policy heralded a shift in the fight against drugs. At the recent UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs, Australia sided with a bloc of 26 mostly Eur

  • ACL Confirms Porn Filter Stance

    The Australian Christian Lobby has confirmed that it has not changed its position on the Government's proposal to introduce ISP filtering of pornography.

  • Last Gove Obstetrician Going

    With the last obstetrician working at Gove in the far north east of the Northern Territory finishing this week, ACU and Brisbane Mater Hospital professor of midwifery, Sue Kildea, has expressed concern over the issue.

  • Mercy Hospital Accused in Waiting List Scandal

    Days after the Royal Women\'s Hospital was exposed for manipulating patient waiting lists, a Melbourne doctor, Peter Lazzari, has accused the Mercy Hospital of also \"fiddling figures\".