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Celebrating The Gifts of People Living With Disabilities

On the 5th December 2005 CathNews reported Cardinal George Pell of Sydney say that ‘sensitivity’ is require to convince governments from South East Asia to repeal capital punishment which will be ‘an uphill battle’. This sentiment is also shared by the Prime Minister who was ‘pessimistic about the ability of Australia to convince its neighbours to end the death penalty.” The push to end capital punishment was reopened after the death of Australian drug smuggle.

  • Vatican Ban Will Not Affect Ordained Priests

    On the 4th December 2005 the Sunday Age reported the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference said: “The ban on gay seminarians proclaim by the Vatican edict will not affect gay priests who are already ordain.” The edict release by the Vatican last week excludes people who are ‘homosexually active, those having deep seated homosexual tendencies and those who support gay culture’ from becoming priests.

  • Christmas Message 2005 from the World Council of Churches General Secretary

    It was in the midst of last year's Christmas season that the December 26th tsunami killed thousands of people on the shores of the Indian Ocean. Who can forget the images of the killer waves, the many victims and traumatized survivors on the shores of Indonesia, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives and even Somalia? All around the world, these images prompted an unprecedented response to appeals for emergency relief, an extraordinary expression of solidarity with the victims by people from a

  • A Look Inside Opus Dei

    On the 29th November 2005 Lateline from the ABC has conducted a special report into Opus Dei translated to God’s work which has been under intense negative spotlight since the release of Dan Brown’s worldwide best selling book entitled: ‘The Da Vinci Code’. The goal of Opus Dei is to have: “Christ as the head for all human activities and to spread the universal call to holiness.” Lateline has reported that Opus Dei currently have 200,000 members worldwide and

  • Introducing New Spirit to Aussie Blokes

    On the 24th November 2005 the Sydneyanglicans.net has reported a team of resourceful evangelist from St Luke’s Miranda have set up an annual event named ‘A is for Ale’ to dispel the myths held by Aussie blokes regarding the church. The event has attracted 210 people up from 140 people in the last event. Simon Twist the co-creator event says the primary purpose for the event is to: “Bring people to the church to show them people at church are like a good beer through havin

  • Conservatives Given The Right To Reject Gay Ministers

    On the 16th November 2005 the Sydney Morning Herald has reported Uniting Church leaders from both New South Wales and Queensland is proposing to give autonomy on the issue of sexuality and leadership to the theological conservatives in order to avoid a walk out. The issue of the ordination of homosexuals has caused a bitter division within the church and there are talks that disaffected congregations could form a national network giving them a collective right to reject openly gay ministers.

  • Reformed Church Seeks New Ways of Bringing Churches Together

    The general secretary of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC), Setri Nyomi, has called on members of the Alliance to seek new ways of coming together while remaining open to the higher goal of full Christian unity.

  • National Council of Churches Called to Fight Poverty at 55th General Assembly

    BALTIMORE, USA – Over 200 representatives from the National Council of Churches were challenged to “become the exclamation point” that could change the world by fighting poverty, injustice and sickness, during the final service of the Council’s 55th annual assembly on Thursday.

  • First Woman, First Methodist to Preach at Church of England General Synod

    The Eighth General Synod of the Church of England will be a landmark with the first woman and first Methodist ever to preach at the opening service of the five-yearly gathering Tuesday at Church House.

  • Traditional Anglicans Criticize West over Liberal Views on Sexuality

    In some of the strongest language used so far, traditional Anglicans in the Global South warned U.S. and Canadian churches that their liberal interpretations of human sexuality will break apart the 450-year-old communion.

  • Traditional Anglicans Criticize Western Counterparts over Deviance from Scripture

    In some of the strongest language used so far, traditional Anglicans in the Global South warned U.S. and Canadian churches that their liberal interpretations of human sexuality will break apart the 450-year-old communion.

  • Worldwide Anglican Meeting Brings Spotlight Back to Tensions in Communion

    With delegates from across the Anglican Communion gathering in Egypt this week, analysts are expecting conservative opposition to liberal trends developing throughout the western provinces of the Communion to come out stronger than ever before.