Religion News Australia 2017 - 6 (Feb 5 - 12)
(12 February 17)by Greg Spearritt
Religion News Australia
February 5 - 12, 2017
Religion news stories from Australia
(Research: Greg Spearritt)
abuse / international stories / islam / religion & society
ABUSE
New Norcia Benedictine community among
worst child sex abuse perpetrators (ABC
News)
Feb 6 - Western Australia’s Benedictine Community of New Norcia rated among
the worst for historical child sex offenders according to figures released by
the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Royal commission into sexual abuse: Who are
the Brothers of St John of God? (ABC
News)
Feb 6 - Forty per cent of the members of the Brothers of St John of God had
allegations of child sexual abuse made against them from 1950 until 2010, the
Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has
revealed.
Child sex abuse royal commission: The night
a group of Catholic schoolboys confronted evil (ABC
News)
Feb 7 – (Opinion: Chris Uhlmann) About 20 boys crammed into the small hotel
room in Wellington and the mood was sombre.
Child sex abuse royal commission: Data
reveals extent of Catholic allegations (ABC
News)
Feb 8 - The Australian Catholic Church has released "grim" data
revealing 7 per cent of priests, working between 1950 and 2009, have been
accused of child sex crimes.
Paedophile priest Raymond Cheek: Anglican
Church ’surprised’ by two-year jail sentence (ABC
News)
Feb 10 - The Anglican Church has expressed surprise after an 85-year-old former
priest was sentenced to just two years in prison for sexually abusing five boys
over a 30-year period in Western Australia’s south.
Challenge launched over judge’s decision
to free ’Wiccan’ child sex offender (The Age, Melbourne)
Feb 10 - A challenge has been launched against a judge’s decision to free a
"Wiccan" who whipped and raped teenagers – one of whom later killed
herself – partly because if he reoffended, the suffering he caused would, the
judge said, be "no greater than is generally experienced by adolescent
female victims".
Catholic education system under a cloud
after child sex abuse commission findings (Sydney Morning Herald)
Feb 11 - Mark Fabbro remembers most vividly the flowering callistemon and blue
sky outside the window of the small room tucked behind the priest’s office.
INTERNATIONAL STORIES
Catholic Church
Vatican under pressure to speed up abuse
investigations: Royal Commission (Sydney Morning Herald)
Feb 10 - A Vatican panel is dealing with a backlog of child sex abuse claims in
the Catholic church internationally, taking up to three years to hand down findings
about alleged perpetrators, a royal commission has heard.
14 odd facts about Vatican City (news.com.au)
Feb 11 - YOU’RE aware that Vatican City is home to the Pope and serves as the
Roman Catholic Church’s HQ.
Religious Violence
Myanmar’s army may have killed ’thousands’
of Rohingya Muslims (ABC News)
Feb 9 - The Myanmar military may have killed "thousands" of Rohingya
Muslims in a campaign of rape and destruction described as ethnic cleansing by
the United Nations.
Milad Bin Ahmad-Shah Al-Ahmadzai jailed for
18 years for gay nightclub shooting (Sydney Morning Herald)
Feb 10 - If you ignored the prison greens, Milad Bin Ahmad-Shah Al-Ahmadzai
might have seemed as if he was in a quiet study cubicle at a library as he was
jailed for 18 years over a shooting at a gay nightclub in western Sydney.
’They were criminals’: an interview with
a captured Islamic State fighter (Brisbane
Times)
Feb 10 - Kirkuk, Iraq: Seated before us, occasionally quivering, a beanie
pulled down over his nostrils, the prisoner looks nothing like the fearsome
Islamic State fighters in the online videos.
Bomb-making materials found at Montpellier
apartment, four held (news.com.au)
Feb 11 - FOUR people have been arrested in and around the southern French city
of Montpellier on suspicion of planning an imminent terrorist attack in France,
the interior ministry says.
ISLAM
Anti-Islam group Q Society dinner disrupted
by protesters in Melbourne (ABC
News)
Feb 10 - More than 100 protesters have disrupted a secretive fundraiser for the
far-right group Q Society in Melbourne, where Liberal defector Cory Bernardi
and Nationals MP George Christensen are speaking.
Inside the far-right Q Society’s explosive
dinner, where Muslims are fair game (Sydney Morning Herald)
Feb 10 - "Let’s be honest, I can’t stand Muslims," said Larry
Pickering, cartoonist and VIP guest at the Q Society fundraising dinner held in
Sydney on Thursday night.
Also:
Transcript: Ross Cameron’s full remarks at
controversial Q Society dinner (Brisbane
Times)
Feb 10 - On Thursday night, two Sydney Morning Herald reporters attended a
fundraising dinner for far-right group The Q Society at North Ryde in Sydney’s
north-west.
Also:
Cameron defends anti-Islam dinner (The Australian)
Feb 10 - Former Liberal MP Ross Cameron defends his appearance at dinner
slammed for offensive comments about gays and Muslims.
Also:
Anti-Muslim talk ’depraved’ (The Australian)
Feb 11 - Cartoonist Larry Pickering, a speaker at a Q Society event, told an
audience of 160 people he ’can’t stand Muslims’.
Sharrouf citizenship stripped (The Australian)
Feb 11 - The government has used anti-terrorism laws for the first time to
strip IS terrorist Khaled Sharrouf of his citizenship.
RELIGION & SOCIETY
Townsville churches ask for divine
intervention to boost depleted water supply (ABC
News)
Feb 9 - A chorus of voices echoed across Ross River Dam in Townsville and up to
the heavens as the sun rose this morning.
Little sympathy for ’evil’ Family cult
leader Anne Hamilton-Byrne as health wanes (Brisbane Times)
Feb 11 - Australia’s most notorious cult leader, Anne Hamilton-Byrne, is in
palliative care in a suburban Melbourne nursing home.
Psychics, witches and pagans: What do
people get out of alternative spirituality? (ABC
News)
Feb 12 - According to Rose Smith, most people who consult psychics these days
are looking for guidance in relationships.
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