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Victory for Christian Nurse Suspended over Prayer Offer

A nurse from Weston-super-Mare who was suspended without pay for asking a patient whether she would like to be prayed for has tonight been reinstated by North Somerset Primary Care Trust..

  • Government to Offer HECS Discounts

    THE federal Government is planning to offer discounts on HECS debts to university students who undertake volunteer community work.

  • Leading Jesuit to Ponder Rights Bill

    JESUIT priest and Professor of Law at Australian Catholic University, Father Frank Brennan, has been appointed to lead a Rudd Government consultation panel on whether the country should have its own Bill of Rights.

  • Serve the Poor – But Don't Use Public Money to Preach, Hazel Blears Tells Christian Debt Charities

    Communities Secretary Hazel Blears has said that churches are ideally placed to help people through the current economic crisis – but added that faith groups using public money to do this work should not "proselytise."

  • White Pages Lists Catholic Church Under 'Magic Shop'

    A search on Telstra subsidiary Sensis White Pages online telephone directory for a magic shop in Queensland comes up with a single answer, a listing for the Catholic Church in the Townsville diocese.

  • Get Financial Help before it's too Late, says Parsons

    Care for the Family\'s Rob Parsons and his daughter lawyer Katie Clarke have teamed up to write a new practical guide for people needing advice on how to survive the financial crisis.

  • Better Birthing Facilities, not Abortion Clinics will Help the Poor

    Foreign Minister Stephen Smith should not be emotionally bullied into thinking abortion is the answer to the tragic rate of maternal deaths in developing countries, according to the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL).

  • Twenty Percent of Rudd Package for Catholic Schools

    Public schools are to receive 70 percent of nearly $14 billion in new funding for all schools if the Rudd Government\'s second stimulus package is passed with another 20 percent of the funds to go to Catholic schools.

  • First Same-Sex Married Couple Gets Divorced

    A lesbian couple who was the first same-sex couple to marry in the United States has filed for divorce.

  • First Human Trials Using Embryonic Stem Cells Draw Skepticism

    Not all scientists aren\'t jumping on the bandwagon to welcome the FDA decision last week that gave a California biotechnology company permission to conduct the first-ever human trial for a treatment derived from embryonic stem cells.

  • Humanism to be Taught as a Religion in Victorian Schools

    Victorian primary school students will soon have religious education lessons taught by people who do not believe in God and say there is \"no evidence of any supernatural power\". The Humanist Society has developed a curriculum, which the State Government accreditation body says it intends to approve, for accredited volunteers to deliver 30-minute lessons each week of \"humanist applied ethics\" to pupils in the class time designated for religious instruction. As with lessons delivered by faith

  • Project Respect Seeks to Help Trafficked Women and Girls

    I recently attended a briefing in NSW Parliament on human trafficking hosted by Ms Pru Goward MP, the former Commonwealth Sex Discrimination Commissioner. Pru has been involved with a not-for-profit community based organisation called Project Respect that aims to empower and support women in the sex industry, with a particular focus on women and girls trafficked to Australia. Project Respect\'s outreach work includes visiting brothels, providing accommodation, counselling, employment, and edu