Religion News Australia 2018 - 28 (Aug 5

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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