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Originally published in The Christian Institute. A Bill proposing a public vote to decide on same-sex marriage has been blocked in Australia. The Bill was rejected on Monday in the Senate by 33 votes to 29. Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull had intended to hold a public vote on the […]
Originally published in Christian Today The eight men executed in Indonesia overnight recited the Lord’s Prayer and worshipped God in the moments before their deaths, witnesses say. Pastor Karina de Vega, who was assigned to counsel Nigerian prisoner Okwudili Oyatanze – dubbed “The Death Row Gospel Singer” and one of […]
Originally published in The Big Story Australia will soon introduce a system to ban foreign “hate preachers” from entering the country and will attempt to outlaw the radical Islamic group Hizb-ut-Tahrir under proposed tougher counterterrorism laws, the prime minister said on Wednesday. Prime Minister Tony Abbott said he was angry […]
Originally published in The Christian Post Over 800 police officers in Australia arrested 15 people on Thursday allegedly connected to terror group ISIS, who are believed to have planned to kidnap and behead people on camera. The counter-terrorism raids on houses and vehicles in Sydney and Brisbane were the largest […]
Originally published in The Christian Institute Australia’s High Court has overturned gay marriage legislation which briefly allowed same-sex ceremonies to take place in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). The small territory – which is self-governing – passed its Marriage Equality (Same Sex) Act 2013 in October this year. The courts […]
Originally published in Charisma News A man in Australia who claims to be neither a man nor a woman has been officially recognized by Australian authorities as “sexless” on his birth certificate. Norrie May-Welby, a British expat, was born a man but had a sex change operation in 1990 when […]
Originally published in Lifesite News Upwards of 900 people attended Western Australia capital city Perth’s annual Rally For Life this week, meeting on an adjoining lawn before rallying at the steps of parliament house. The rally is organised by Coalition for Defence of Human Life and has been held every […]
Originally published in Lifesite News Three weeks after the passage of homosexual ‘marriage’ in New Zealand, a pro-family group has been stripped of charitable status. Family First New Zealand, a charity which speaks up for families, and holds a traditional view of marriage and family, have received notice from the […]
Originally published in Australian Christian Lobby The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) is concerned by a renewed push by Greens party activists to legalise polyamorous marriages. “There is no doubt that a growing number of members of the Greens Party take its ‘marriage for all’ policy to mean exactly that,” said […]
The Australian Christian Lobby has said that Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s decision to withdraw from speaking at an ACL conference because she took offense to a comment on homosexuality made by the group’s leader will be seen as an “abandonment of the Christian constituency.” ACL’s leader Jim Wallace compared the […]