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Churches Offer Spiritual Help for Weight Loss

Churches across the nation have found a new way to improve the lives of congregants – helping them lose weight..

  • 'Hands-off' Eastern Sunday warn Anglican leaders

    Anglican leaders in New Zealand are lobbying hard to maintain Easter Sunday as a public holiday, stating with more than half of the population identifying themselves as Christian, it was right the most important Christian festival should be given weight.

  • Play portraying Jesus Christ as a homosexual described as blasphemous

    An Australian church leader has condemned a play, which depicts Jesus as a gay man and who conducts a gay marriage for two apostles, describing it as 'historic-nonsense.'

  • Carbon tax on every Australian child sparks outrage

    The Sydney Roman Catholic Archbishop, Cardinal George Pell, has denounced the publication of a recent letter by a medical journal with its author calling for a tax on every child born.

  • Safeguarding children is vital in proposed WA surrogacy law

    The Western Australian state branch of the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) has urged the State parliamentarians to adopt a list of five recommendations with the primary view of safeguarding the rights of the child in its deliberation over the issue of surrogacy.

  • DIY & New Age religion causing harm to its believers

    An agnostic researcher, in a survey, has found young adults with a belief in spiritual or higher power other than God were at more risk of poorer mental health and deviant social behaviour than those who rejected these beliefs.

  • Salvation Army store targeted by vandals

    A Salvation Army store in Canberra was vandalised overnight with the content of its stores being dosed with diesel thus making it unsellable to the general public.

  • Villawood should be demolished

    The Jesuit refugee service director, Fr David Holdcroft, concurred with the assessment given by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) that labelled the condition found in Villawood's high security section, known as Stage 1, as 'prison-like' and recommended it be demolished.

  • Indigenous taskforce request Rudd's government to give direction

    The chairwoman of the Northern Territory intervention taskforce is asking the Federal Government for direction as she feared it might stall under the Labor government.

  • Australian settlers commanded to adhere to Bible teaching

    Reverend Richard Johnson, the chaplain and missionary on the First Fleet to the 'Land Down Under,' in the first work published to the newly found nation of Australia exhorted its citizen to do three things to maintain their Christian life in a barren land.

  • Stanhope: A promoter of ungodly legislation

    In an opening salvo against Jon Stanhope, the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) chief minister, Jim Wallace, the managing director of the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL), said he was the promoter of 'ungodly legislation' as the A.C.T. prepares for an election this year.

  • Moyes: CDP Muslim immigration policy is not Christian

    Reverend Dr. Gordon Moyes, the NSW Deputy President of the Christian Democratic Party (CDP), came out strongly against the moratorium on Muslim immigration and the closure of a Muslim school in Camden, which are championed by Reverend Fred Nile.