Religion News Australia 2018 - 28 (Aug 5 - 12)
(12 August 18)by Greg Spearritt
Religion News Australia
August 5 - 12, 2018
Religion news stories from Australia
(Research: Greg Spearritt)
abuse / catholic church / education / international stories / judaism / politics / religion & society
ABUSE
Anglican Church faces complaints over Peter
Hollingworth remaining a bishop (ABC
News)
Aug 8 - Disgraced former governor-general Peter Hollingworth has been named in several
complaints to the Anglican diocese of Melbourne over his continuing status as a
bishop in the church.
Also: Melbourne Anglican diocese denies ignoring
complaints about Peter Hollingworth (The Guardian, Australia)
Aug 8 - The Anglican diocese of Melbourne has rejected criticism it is ignoring
complaints about Bishop Peter Hollingworth, as questions were raised about the
independence of the diocese’s office of professional standards.
Also: Peter Hollingworth urged to forego his entitlements
as a former governor-general (ABC
News)
Aug 9 - Former governor-general Peter Hollingworth is being urged to forego
hundreds of thousands of dollars from his taxpayer-funded pension and
entitlements he receives every year.
Also: Anglican investigator found 'more than
enough' evidence to revoke Peter Hollingworth's holy orders (ABC
News)
Aug 10 - The former director of professional standards for the Anglican Diocese
of Melbourne last year told a survivor of sexual abuse that he believed there
was enough publicly available evidence to revoke Peter Hollingworth's bishop's
orders.
CATHOLIC CHURCH
One hundred years of history reflected in
extraordinary community-built Kimberley church (ABC
News)
Aug 11 - With its stunning inlaid pearl shell altar making it arguably one of
the most beautiful churches in Australia, the Sacred Heart Church at Beagle Bay
on the Kimberley coast is celebrating 100 years of extraordinary history.
EDUCATION
Religion in decline in Australian schools (The Age, Melbourne)
Aug 12 - Australian school students are becoming more likely to identify with
“no religion” even in religious schools, including a 68 per cent increase in
Catholic schools.
INTERNATIONAL STORIES
Abuse
Mystery deepens as father of New Mexico
child-abuse suspects speaks (The
Age, Melbourne)
Aug 10 - Washington: A Brooklyn imam whose relatives were arrested in a raid of
a New Mexico compound has spoken out to combat rumours that have transformed
what he described as a months-long family drama into allegations of terrorism.
Catholic Church
When faith fades: can the pope still
connect with a changed Ireland? (The
Guardian, Australia)
Aug 12 - In the four decades since the last papal visit, Ireland has embraced
divorce, contraception, same-sex marriage and abortion – and the Catholic
church appears to be losing its hold on the people.
Islam
First woman fined under Denmark's new veil
ban laws after shopping centre scuffle (ABC
News)
Aug 6 - A 28-year-old woman wearing a face veil has become the first person in
Denmark to be fined for violating a new law banning such garments in public
places.
Boris Johnson told to apologise for
likening burka-wearing women to letter-boxes, bank robbers (ABC
News)
Aug 8 - Britain's former foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, has been told to
apologise by British Prime Minister Theresa May and other senior Conservatives
for a newspaper column in which he wrote burka-wearing women looked like
"letter boxes" and bank robbers.
Also: The burqa brouhaha – a calculated step on
Boris’s march to the top (The
Guardian, Australia)
Aug 12 - When I met Boris Johnson in the full pomp of our early 20s, he was
president of the Oxford Union debating society and had launched a new
publication solemnly entitled Debate, to promote his upcoming events.
Indonesian president picks conservative
running mate for poll (The Age,
Melbourne)
Aug 10 - Jakarta: Indonesia's president Joko Widodo had brandished his
nationalist and religious credentials amid reports the Islamic cleric chosen to
be his running mate in next year's election was forced on him.
Reports China holds million of Uighurs in
secret camps: UN (The Age,
Melbourne)
Aug 11 - Geneva: A United Nations human rights panel said on Friday that it had
received many credible reports that 1 million ethnic Uighurs in China are held
in what resembles a "massive internment camp that is shrouded in
secrecy."
Religious Violence
Sikh man attacked in hate crime: ‘my turban
really saved me’ (The Age,
Melbourne)
Aug 7 - Los Angeles: A Sikh man living in the US, who was recently ambushed,
beaten up and told to return to his country said he believed that the very
thing that may have prompted the assault also protected him from further harm.
Other
Christian soldiers in fight for China's soul
amid communist crackdown (The Age,
Melbourne)
Aug 7 - Nanyang, China: The 62-year-old
Chinese shopkeeper had waited nearly his entire adult life to see his dream of
building a church come true - a brick house with a sunny courtyard and spacious
hall with room for 200 believers.
JUDAISM
Bluesfest's Nazi slur to Holocaust
survivors' granddaughter who criticised line-up (ABC
News)
Aug 7 - The organisers of Byron Bay's Bluesfest have apologised after comparing
a woman to a Nazi because she criticised the festival's lack of female artists.
POLITICS
Thou shalt not put politics ahead of
religion (The Age, Melbourne)
Aug 5 - Our political leaders are doing God and it’s about time.
Libs ‘ignore principles’ over slur (The Australian)
Aug 6 - A Victorian Liberal Party member facing expulsion for speaking out against
“Moronic Mormons” will have to wait to hear his fate.
Senate prayer proposal sparks division (The Australian)
Aug 7 - Katter’s Australian Party senator Fraser Anning says the daily
acknowledgement of country in the Senate should be abolished instead of the
prayer reading, triggering a rebuke from the Greens.
RELIGION & SOCIETY
Unions seek to end religious bodies' right
to discriminate in hiring (The
Guardian, Australia)
Aug 6 - Australia’s union movement will lobby for churches and other religious
organisations to lose the legal right to fire some workers on the basis of
their sexuality or gender identity.
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