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Priest Backs Teen Parents

British priest Fr Seamus Hester says that 13 year old father Alfie Patten and 16 year old Chantelle Steadman, who became parents to a baby daughter last week, should be supported not blamed. .

  • ASCA Launches Confronting Ad Campaign

    Adults Surviving Child Abuse (ASCA) has launched a national advertising campaign aimed at highlighting the devastating long-term impacts of child abuse on well over 2 million adult survivors and a further 8 million plus Australian community members.

  • 'Wrongful Birth' not Right: Fisher

    The ACT Court of Appeal has awarded $317,000 damages to a lesbian couple who had two babies instead of one after an IVF procedure but Sydney Bishop Anthony Fisher says that no court should be able to rule that a child\'s life is \"wrongful\".

  • Telstra Stuns Brennan With Human Rights Submission

    Telstra has surprised national human rights consultation chair, Fr Frank Brennan, by lodging a submission backing a national human rights charter to redress the alleged \"racist\" underpinnings of Australia\'s constitution.

  • TV Stations Drop Controversial Program on 'Homosexual Agenda'

    Two TV stations have pulled from their lineup a television special on the \"homosexual agenda\" that they deemed too \"controversial.\"

  • Ministry Serving Hungry Under FBI, IRS Investigation

    A non-denominational ministry that provides low-cost food to the poor is being investigated by the FBI and IRS.

  • Christians Support Valentine's Day Vigil for Zimbabwe

    Zimbabwean Christians will join human rights campaigners in a Valentine's Day vigil outside Zimbabwe's embassy in London.

  • US: Gay Couples Apply for Marriage Licenses in Nationwide Protest

    Thousands of same-sex couples across the country applied for marriage licenses on Thursday, knowing they would be turned away.

  • Victoria Bushfire: The Good, the Sad and the Ugly

    As reports continue to flood in, surprising acts of generosity, people's raw feelings and unworthy behaviour have all come to the fore. It has taken Australia's worst natural disaster to expose what a wide range of people we have in this community.

  • Global Finances Can and Must Change

    As the global financial system falters, many civil society and church activists see the crisis as an opportunity to press for long-overdue, radical reforms. The first opportunity for them to do so will come in early April, when the G20 will meet in London.

  • National Faith Leaders Meet ABC Head on Religion

    Representatives of National Faith Communities including Uniting Church President Rev Gregor Henderson, the National Council of Churches in Australia, the Australian Catholic Bishop's Conference, and the Executive Council of Australian Jewry met with the Managing Director of the ABC Mark Scott to discuss religious broadcasts last Friday.

  • Islamic Cleric says OK to Hit Unsubmissive Wives

    A Melbourne Islamic cleric has told his male followers they can force their wives to have sex and hit them if they are disobedient. Coburg\'s self-styled cleric Samir Abu Hamza said despite Australian rape laws it was impossible for a man to rape his wife even if she refused to have sex with him. In a recorded lecture delivered to his male worshippers but now broadcast on the internet and viewed by several thousand people, Mr Hamza said Islamic law allowed men to hit their wives as a last resort