Religion News Australia 2016 - 22 (May 29 - June 5)
(05 June 16)by Greg Spearritt
Religion News Australia
May 29 – June 5, 2016
Religion news stories from Australia
(Research: Greg Spearritt)
abuse / arts & entertainment / international stories / islam / politics / religion & society
ABUSE
Paedophile priest Gerald
Ridsdale's name scratched from St Patrick's College honour board (ABC
News)
May 31 - A black line has been put through the name of paedophile priest Gerald
Ridsdale on the board of ordained collegians at St Patrick's College in
Ballarat to acknowledge the victims of abuse at the hands of Catholic clergy.
Australian principal
accused of 74 child sex charges walks free in Israel (ABC News)
June 3 - The former principal of an ultra-Orthodox girls school in Melbourne
has been ruled mentally unfit to face extradition and had her home detention
lifted in a move that has shocked and deeply concerned Australian officials.
Abuse principal ‘must
return’ (The Australian)
June 4 – (Opinion: Cameron Stewart) Australia must step up pressure on Israel
over the extradition of a former school principal accused of sex offences.
Pope Francis to
investigate, remove bishops if found negligent in sexual abuse cases (ABC
News)
June 5 - Bishops found to be "negligent" when dealing with cases of
sexual abuse will be investigated and could be removed from office, a papal
decree says.
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
God Willing review:
Italian comedy follows dad's farcical efforts to 'save' son (The Age, Melbourne)
June 5 – (Review) Tommaso (Marco
Giallini), the rigorous Roman doctor at the centre of this pleasant if less
than taxing Italian comedy, has no need for a higher power – he's happy
answering to himself.
INTERNATIONAL STORIES
Catholic Church
Pope meets beauty
vloggers, says they do a 'great thing' (Sydney Morning Herald)
June 1 - The Pope has praised beauty vlogs in an audience with YouTube stars on
Sunday.
Religious Violence
IS amass Fallujah human
shields (The Australian)
May 31 - Elite Iraqi special forces begin their push into Fallujah and
encounter stiff resistance from Islamic State.
Also:
Isis fighting back as
Iraqi forces try to take centre of Falluja (The Guardian, Australia)
May 31 - Iraqi forces faced tough resistance from Islamic State fighters as
they attempted to enter the centre of Falluja, where there are fears for tens
of thousands of trapped civilians.
Also:
ISIS resists Fallujah onslaught (The Australian)
June 1 - At least 50,000 trapped residents see ‘death at the door’ as Iraqi
troops advance.
Also:
ISIS, Fallujah: Loss of city would be fatal
blow to embattled terror group, expert says (news.com.au)
June 1 - ISLAMIC State is facing its toughest fight yet as Iraqi special forces
launch a deadly fight to the end to reclaim the strategic city of Fallujah
Also:
Islamic State using hundreds of families as
human shields to protect Fallujah: United Nations (news.com.au)
June 1 - ISLAMIC State forces are holding several hundred families as “human
shields” in the Iraqi city of Fallujah while government forces close in, the
United Nations refugee agency says.
Syrian army enters Raqqa
province in offensive against Islamic State as Kurds advance from north (ABC News)
June 5 - Russian-backed Syrian troops pushed into the Islamic State (IS)
group's bastion province Raqqa, threatening to catch the jihadists as US-backed
Kurdish-led fighters advance from the north.
Boko Haram extremists
kill dozens of soldiers in Niger military base (The Guardian, Australia)
June 5 - Hundreds of Boko Haram extremists attacked a military post in Niger
near the country’s border with Nigeria, killing at least 32 soldiers, Niger’s
defense ministry said on Saturday.
Other
Migrant crisis: Dalai Lama says Germany
'cannot become an Arab country'(Sydney Morning Herald)
June 1 - Speaking to German reporters in the de facto capital of Tibet's exiled
government, the Dalai Lama apparently said that "too many" refugees
are seeking asylum in Europe.
The tiny village home to
Italy’s shaman healer (news.com.au)
June 4 - FORGET deep Africa or Papua New Guinea. There’s an artist-healer who
inhabits Italy’s rugged Apennine mountains.
Hindu cult in India ran
own pseudo-government, torture prisons, police say (ABC News)
June 5 - Police in India say a mysterious cult at the centre of deadly clashes
was running its own pseudo-government, army, court and a prison where torture
was the norm.
ISLAM
On missing family,
religious harmony, and being a Muslim in regional Australia (ABC News)
June 1 - Hussein Megahed looks out his shopfront onto the streets of Armidale
in Northern NSW and sees people from all nationalities.
Refugee takes David and
Goliath fight to News Corp (Brisbane
Times)
June 2 - "ISLAM MUST CHANGE", screamed the Herald Sun headline, and
Muslim refugee Aladdin Sisalem - no stranger to conflict with News Corp
Australia - took action.
Muhammad Ali taught me
to be proud of my skin and Muslim faith (The Guardian, Australia)
June 5 – (Opinion: Omar Musa) Once, when I was a child growing up in Australia,
I got teased by another kid because I had brown skin.
POLITICS
Catholic archdiocese
defends nuns accused of defacing Sex party poster (The Guardian, Australia)
June 4 - The Catholic archdiocese of Melbourne has defended the Missionaries of
Charity after a photograph emerged purporting to show two nuns from the order
defacing a Sex party poster calling for the church to be taxed and marijuana to
be legalised.
RELIGION & SOCIETY
Australian Christian
Lobby likens gay marriage and Safe Schools to 'unthinkable' Nazi atrocities (Sydney Morning
Herald)
May 31 - The Australian Christian Lobby has compared same-sex marriage and the
Safe Schools program to the Holocaust, dubbing them all "unthinkable
things" that happened because societies lacked strong moral guardians.
New Uniting Church
leader says husband's suicide made her more compassionate (ABC News)
June 3 - New Uniting Church leader Sharon Hollis says the experience of losing
her husband to suicide has made her more compassionate and understanding of
human suffering.
Church threat over gay
marriage (The Australian)
June 4 - A major denomination will stop co-operating with the state on marriage
if same-sex unions are legalised.
Churches are drifting
too far (The Australian)
June 4 – (Opinion: Greg Sheridan) Once a beacon of moral authority, religion is
facing a crisis of relevance.
The Australian Christian
Lobby's position on marriage equality lacks decency and fairness (The Age, Melbourne)
June 4 – (Opinion: Michael Short) Were one to set out to besmirch Christianity,
one might very well invent something akin to the Australian Christian Lobby,
the Orwellian motto of which is "Voice for Values".
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