Religion News Selection 50 (Nov 16 - 23)
(23 November 14)by Greg Spearritt
Religion News Selection
November 16 - 23, 2014
A
selection of religion news stories from Australia.
(Research: Greg Spearritt)
Inclusion here does not endorse the veracity or quality of any particular item
– it just means
I found it worth reading and reflecting on (even if badly conceived or poorly
written).
If you’re after the
unexpurgated (and reasonably unbiased) version,
see Religion News Australia which
appears weekly on our website.
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Sacked Bishop Bill
Morris to campaign for ordination of married men (Brisbane Times)
Nov 17 - Sacked Catholic Bishop Bill Morris will campaign for the ordination of
married men, during a book signing tour to Canberra, Sydney and Melbourne.
INTERNATIONAL STORIES
Anglican Church
Church of England ends
centuries of tradition and allows women to become bishops (ABC
News)
Nov 18 - The Church of England has ended centuries of tradition by adopting
legislation allowing women to become bishops for the first time, with the first
ordinations set for next year.
Catholic Church
Myanmar Catholics celebrate
500 years in the country (The
West Australian)
Nov 22 - Yangon (AFP) - Thousands of Myanmar Catholics marked 500 years of the
Church's presence inside the country in a lively celebration at a Yangon cathedral
held four years late because of religious restrictions under the former junta.
Islam
Virginity tests for
female Indonesian police force applicants 'discriminatory' (ABC News)
Nov 17 - Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged Indonesia's national police to halt
"discriminatory" virginity tests for women applying to join the
force.
Turkey to open mosques
'in every university' (The West
Australian)
Nov 21 - Istanbul (AFP) - Turkey's top religious body said on Friday that there
are plans to build a mosque in every state university, adding to concerns over
what critics say are creeping efforts to force Islamic values on the society.
Religious Violence
Bangladeshi professor
Shafiul Islam hacked to death (news.com.au)
Nov 17 - SUSPECTED Islamic militants have hacked to death a university
professor in Bangladesh, several years after he led a push to ban students
wearing full-face veils.
Israelis, Palestinians
look to personal safety in holy city on edge (The West Australian)
Nov 19 - JERUSALEM (Reuters) - On edge but faithful to their religious routine,
worshippers returned on Wednesday to the Jerusalem synagogue where four rabbis
and a policeman were killed in a Palestinian attack a day earlier.
Families in shock as
Islamic State lures sons into 'barbaric madness' (The West Australian)
Nov 18 - CARDIFF (Reuters) - “Do you know how much it hurts to raise someone
and watch them grow and suddenly they’re just gone?” says Ahmed Muthana, 57, a
retired electronics engineer in Wales whose two sons Nasser, 20, and Aseel, 17,
have gone to fight for Islamic State.
Jews bare (sic) the
brunt for naive hatred of Israel (Sydney Morning Herald)
Nov 20 - After all the beheadings, massacres, rapes and enslavements of women
by men running amok under the black flag of Islamic State, surveys have shown
that support for the group is much higher in Europe than it is in Middle East.
Other
Indian 'godman' Rampal
charged with sedition after hundreds arrested at fortified compound (ABC News)
Nov 21 - The leader of a cult in India has been charged with sedition and
waging war against the state after a siege at his compound lasting several days
ended in his arrest along with 450 followers.
ISLAM
Sydney brothers believed
to have joined Islamic State (Sydney Morning Herald)
Nov 17 - "We made it to Bilad al-Sham, we will see you in Paradise."
Another racist attack at
Newcastle mosque (ABC News)
Nov 19 - There has been another racist attack at the Newcastle mosque with a
pig's head thrown into its grounds.
Campaign to boycott
halal food gains momentum in Australia (ABC News)
Nov 21 - A campaign to boycott halal-certified food is gaining momentum across
Australia, with groups claiming that certification pushes up prices and the
money goes towards funding terrorism.
POLITICS
Victoria election 2014:
Voters polarised over burka ban, Vote Compass reveals (ABC
News)
Nov 17 - Victorians are polarised by a suggestion to ban the burka, results
from the ABC's online survey Vote Compass indicate.
Halal certification
funds extremists: MP (The West
Australian)
Nov 20 - Consumers who buy Halal products could be funding Islamic extremism,
an Abbott government backbencher claims.
RELIGION & SOCIETY
Immunisation rebels are
not moral crusaders (The West
Australian)
Nov 19 – (Opinion: Editorial) When most people hear the term
"conscientious objectors", it comes with an image of potential
soldiers who refuse to perform military service because they believe, on moral
or religious grounds, that it is wrong to kill another human being.
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