The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference is to establish an Action Group to consider the recommendations of a damning Senate report into sexual abuse in institutions.

ASEAN nations should develop a "culture of acceptance", according to the Interfaith Dialogue group who met in Yogyakarta, and also called for government support for those aims.

The Edmund Rice Centre, a work of the Christian Brothers at Notre Dame University, Fremantle, is to be closed down, raising fears that the University is downgrading Christian ethics.

The Sisters of Mercy are attempting to get a fair hearing from Senator Amanda Vanstone in their attempt to get a fair hearing for desperate asylum seekers at Baxter Detention Centre.