Publicly-funded religious hospitals in Victoria would no longer be legally able to refuse abortions under proposed new laws. Reason Party leader Fiona Patten has introduced a health legislation amendment bill into the Victorian Parliament in a bid to ensure that
By Greg Sheridan, Foreign Affairs Editor of The Australian Newspaper On Sunday, June 5, in the little Catholic church of St Francis in the town of Owo, in southwest Nigeria, a crowd gathered for Sunday morning mass. This was the
The head of a religious freedom advocacy organization cited “the dominance of woke culture that thinks it’s OK to silence people who disagree” as the greatest threat to religious freedom in the U.S. and around the world. Michael Farris, president
A new Gallup poll has found that only 38% of adults in the United States say they are “extremely proud” to be American, the lowest percentage recorded since the analytics and advisory company began asking the question in 2001. Gallup
The LGBTQ community is celebrating after the world’s oldest Methodist building announced it will be officiating same-sex marriages. The New Room in Bristol was the first chapel set up by evangelist and founder of Methodism, John Wesley. In a Facebook
Laws requiring all schools in Northern Ireland to provide faith-based Christian religious education and worship breach human rights legislation, the UK High Court has ruled. Mr Justice Colton ruled that the Christian nature of RE and worship violates the freedom
This is a disheartening trend in the younger generations of America. We must pray that these youth find their identity in Christ. The number of America’s young people identifying as transgender has almost doubled recently, with citizens ages 13 to
Australia has refused to sign up to a US-led statement condemning an open-ended UN inquiry into Israeli human rights abuses in the occupied Palestinian territories, in a policy shift by the Albanese government. The US statement, calling for an end
A group of Jewish leaders have condemned a motion passed by the University of Melbourne’s Student Union (UMSU) after it pledged support for the anti-Israeli Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, sparking fears it could have a flow-on effect across university
The Church of England has apologised for passing anti-Jewish laws 800 years ago that resulted in the expulsion of Jews from England. During a special service to mark the 800th anniversary of the Synod of Oxford, the Archbishop of Canterbury,
