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Anglicare Australia, the Brotherhood of St Laurence, Catholic Welfare Australia, UnitingCare and ACOSS called on the government and all politicians returning to Canberra to create a well resourced National Anti-Poverty Plan to help the poorest Australians
- acoss
John Howard has praised the courageous intervention of Catholic and Anglican leaders who attacked Labor's election schools policy, as he accused Mark Latham of peddling "class warfare" politics from a bygone era - the australian
The Federal Government has forcibly deported an Iranian Christian to Iran, sparking criticism from church groups that he has been placed at risk. The deportation is only the second involuntary deportation of a Christian to Iran where converting to Christianity is an offence
- the age.com
Australia's Prime Minister John Howard just re-elected for a fourth term of office has confirmed his commitment to the war on terrorism and said he is ready to take preventive military action to destroy cells of terror in South East Asia, the Fides Service reported - fides.org
John Paul II's 26th anniversary as Pope is just one more milestone in the third longest pontificate of all time. He is the 11th oldest man to reign as Pontiff. And the length of his pontificate is surpassed in duration only by that of St. Peter and Pius IX (1846-1878). In his 26-year pontificate, John Paul II has pronounced, written and transmitted more than 90,000 pages, compiled in 55 volumes by the Vatican Library
- zenit.org
The Indian Theological Association opened up their annual meeting this year to a discussion of "Women's Concerns and an Indian Theological Response." The result was a rather stark assessment of women's status in Indian society and the church - national catholic reporter
It's time that the global social justice movement moved beyond its "another world is possible" mantra towards a political strategy. In the week of the 2004 European Social Forum, veteran French-American global justice campaigner Susan George tells Caspar Henderson of openDemocracy that Europeans need to focus, organise - and lead - open democracy.net
"Iraq is our country, our homeland: why should we leave, why should we not stay?" Though saddened by this latest episode of violence against Christians, the Catholic Chaldean Patriarch, Monsignor Emmanuel Delly, stresses that terrorism has struck and continues to strike Muslims as well - asianews
The complex and often controversial relationship between politics and faith was the subject addressed in a congress held Oct. 7-10 in Bologna. The 44th edition of the "Social Week," first held in 1907, brought together almost 1,200 participants - zenit.org
Police are investigating men filming desecrated Jewish graves at Bolton St Cemetery in Wellington. Sixteen historic Jewish headstones were smashed in July and swastikas and Nazi slogans were etched in the ground at the historic cemetery. Three weeks later, a chapel at Makara Cemetery was burned down, 92 graves vandalised and swastikas drawn in the chapel and gouged into the grass - stuff.co.nz
Church leaders are discussing whether it is right or not to consider Muslim Turkey as part of Europe. Ratzinger says "No," but the "Yes" votes are growing more numerous - and more convincing - chiessa
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