Saturday, 11 May 2024

Australia

“Not silly, just forgiven,” students told at first 2016 Bible Society Masterclass

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“People can view our beliefs as silly,” said Simon Smart from Centre for Public Christianity (CPX) to 300 high school students attending Bible Society’s first 2016 Masterclass in Queensland last week.

Simon Smart from CPX at Masterclass in QLD.

“Much more so in the world that you’re growing up in than the one I grew up in. This is because we are mixing more and more with people whose worldview is different than our own.”
Smart was making ..

Christians on trial in Nepal in first religious freedom case since new Constitution

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Eight Nepali Christians are on trial this month, arrested for distributing a pamphlet about Jesus in a school.

It is Nepal’s first religious freedom case since the country’s new Constitution was implemented in September last year.

While Nepal recognises the right to be Christian, converting someone to a different religion is prohibited. A new clause in the Constitution, Article 31(3) took that further, stating “any act to convert another person f..

Same-sex attracted Christians called to a life of love and friendship, not just self-denial

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Wesley Hill, from Trinity School for Ministry in Pennsylvania, describes himself as “celibate, gay and Christian”. Eternity’s Kaley Payne asked one of her friends who describes himself similarly to contribute to questions for her interview with Hill who is in Australia this month with Ridley College, talking to churches about a pastoral response to same-sex attraction.

When did you realise that you were same-sex attracted, and how did ..

Teaching churches in remote Queensland how to minister to themselves

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The parish of Barcaldine in central QLD, about an eleven hour drive from Brisbane, hasn’t had a minister for 25 years. Instead, it’s been run by lay people. But there has been very little or no growth in the parish, and the people are wearing out. But all that is about to change.

In a partnership between Bishop David Robinson of the Anglican Diocese of Rockhampton and Bush Church Aid, Graeme Liersch and his wife Susan have been appointed to go to Longr..

The murder of a French priest has horrified the world. The same thing happens to Christians in lesser-reported places.

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The 26 July killing of a Catholic priest in his church in St. Etienne du Rouvray, France, once again has pushed jihadist violence into the headlines. The so-called Islamic State claimed responsibility for the murder, committed by two knife-wielding attackers who were shot and killed by police.

Rev. Jacques Hamel, murdered on July 26, 2016 in St. Etienne du Rouvray, France.

What pushed the story onto Europe’s front pages was its location – Franc..

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The feisty conservative columnist for Sydney’s Daily Telegraph, Miranda Devine, had a bucket tipped over her by Media Watch last night. But the ABC show failed to knock her out of the ring. Instead they confirmed essential details in her story,Media Watch and Miranda Devine slug it out over the Safe Schools Coalition giving her a win or a draw, but inflicting real damage on the anti-Safe Schools Coalition cause she has been championin..

“What hope can you offer us when we’re sitting in here?”

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“Why should we listen to you? What hope can you offer us when we’re sitting in here?” That’s the question Anglican youth minister Bruce Chapman is often confronted with when he visits inmates at Don Dale youth detention centre in the Northern Territory.

Shocking footage of abuse in a Northern Territory youth detention centre was aired on ABC’s Four Corners programme on Monday night.

The detention centre has come under national scrutiny this we..

There are brothers in Christ on the inside in South Africa

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“When you look at these people, they look so normal and so ordinary. But they are the people who’ve caused others a tremendous amount of pain and grief. They are someone else’s nightmare,” Pastor Willy Dengler tells me as we drive towards the Johannesburg Correction Centre, the city prison in South Africa known as “Sun City”. It’s my first prison visit and I’m nervous. But for Pastor Willy, he’s lost count of how many times he has been ..

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Maids and taxi drivers are the new face of the missionary movement says global missions expert and Bible translator, Eddie Arthur.

“We are used to thinking about mission as people going from Britain or Australia to Africa or from America to China,” Arthur tells Eternity.

“…We are starting to hear stories coming through of Saudi families where the mothers and children are becoming believers through the influence of Filipino maids working in their..

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A senior Coalition source has told Eternity that Coalition backbenchers are fighting to ensure that the plebiscite on same-sex marriage is put back to 2017. A same-sex marriage plebiscite would have to be “very rushed” to make it through both Houses of Parliament for a poll this year.

The next sitting of parliament is only seven weeks long. The Government wants to deal with terrorism and some economic legislation as their first priority. A Senate enquiry and the draf..

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