A charity has reported a sevenfold increase in attacks globally on Christian churches,schools and hospitals in the past year – but it gets little attention in the West.
Christian groups have swung their support behind Labor’s proposed bans as part of the new federal religious discrimination act,adding pressure on the Coalition to back the measure.
Faith leaders and equality advocates are urging the Albanese government to deliver on religious discrimination laws.
Next year,the Albanese government will have to make good on its election promise to legislate a religious discrimination framework,an issue that pits LGBTQ rights against those of people of faith.
Communications Minister Michelle Rowland has flagged significant changes to proposed misinformation laws,delaying the introduction of a final bill to parliament until next year.
Equality groups have become concerned about lack of action over a bill to ban gay conversion therapy in NSW.
Catholics say teaching on topics such as euthanasia and sexuality could be caught up in the government’s proposal to clamp down on misinformation online.
The Australian National Imams Council said prohibiting the flag was analogous to banning the Christian cross because it had been misused by the Ku Klux Klan.
Scotch College says it is moving with the times but needs to consider its overarching religious ethos,as the church that oversees it seeks to bar some students from school captaincy.
The short-lived Essendon chief executive and former banker plans to spend more time with his family in 2023.
The monastery on Siniyah Island,part of a sand-dune sheikhdom,sheds new light on early Christianity along the shores of the Persian Gulf.