Jail urged for Archbishop Philip Wilson despite poor health
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald By Sam Rigney The only way to send a clear message to powerful religious organisations about institutional concealment of child sexual abuse is to send […]
Evangelical Christians step up abortion clinic protests in Queensland
Source: The Guardian BY Ben Smee An evangelical group has ramped up demonstrations outside several Brisbane abortion clinics as Queensland prepares to reform its 1899 laws that make abortion a […]
South Australia Catholic church to ignore law on reporting confessions of abuse
Source: The Guardian Adelaide’s acting archbishop says confessional is sacred and its nature can’t be changed Australian Associated Press Bishop Greg O’Kelly, acting archbishop of Adelaide, told ABC radio confession […]
Australia PM will make national apology to sex abuse victims
Source: Associated Press By TREVOR MARSHALLSEA SYDNEY (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will deliver a national apology to child sex abuse victims as part of the government’s response […]
Australian Catholic Church to enter into redress scheme for sex abuse survivors
Source: Reuters MELBOURNE (Reuters) – The Australian Catholic Church has committed to taking part in a new national redress scheme for survivors of institutional child sexual abuse, two top religious […]
Australia’s New Rule for Asylum Seekers Makes Ramadan Even Harder
Source: The New York Times By Sarah Malik May 28, 2018 SYDNEY, Australia — For hundreds of Muslim asylum seekers being held in Australian detention facilities, Ramadan this year has […]
In Papua New Guinea’s Sorcery Wars, A Peacemaker Takes On Her Toughest Case
Source: NPR BY DURRIE BOUSCAREN Things were going terribly wrong. Ato Boropi could feel it. Dozens of villagers had squeezed next to each other on the floor of a one-room church […]
Australian Archbishop Found Guilty In Cover-Up Of Child Sex Abuse
Source: NPR BY SCOTT NEUMAN Archbishop of Adelaide Philip Wilson has been found guilty of concealing child sex abuse by a fellow priest that he first learned of in the 1970s. […]
Australian archbishop steps down after cover-up conviction
Source: Associated Press By ROD McGUIRK CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Australian archbishop said Wednesday that he will stand aside but does not intend to resign after becoming the most […]
Australian Archbishop Found Guilty In Cover-Up Of Child Sex Abuse
Source: NPR BY SCOTT NEUMAN Archbishop of Adelaide Philip Wilson has been found guilty of concealing child sex abuse by a fellow priest that he first learned of in the 1970s. […]
For six decades, ‘the man with the golden arm’ donated blood — and saved 2.4 million babies
Source: The Washington Post By Amy B Wang In 1951, a 14-year-old Australian boy named James Harrison awoke from a major chest operation. Doctors had removed one of his lungs in […]
Australian archbishop Philip Wilson guilty of concealing child sex abuses
Source: BBC News An Australian court has found a Catholic archbishop guilty of concealing child sexual abuse in the 1970s. Philip Wilson, now archbishop of Adelaide, becomes the most senior […]
Australian archbishop Philip Wilson guilty of concealing child sex abuses
Source: BBC In 2012, then PM Julia Gillard set up a royal commission, the country’s highest form of public inquiry, to look into institutional responses to child sexual abuse. By the time it had published its final report in December last year, it had handled 42,000 calls and referred more […]
Commonwealth Games: Fifty athletes in Australia ‘illegally’
Source: BBC News Around 50 competitors have remained in Australia illegally after going missing during this year’s Commonwealth Games, a government official has said. Nearly 200 others hold bridging visas […]
Catholic sexual abuse partly caused by secrecy and mandatory celibacy, report finds
Report examined findings of 26 royal commissions and inquiries from Australia, Ireland, the UK, Canada and Netherlands Melissa Davey @MelissaLDavey Wed 13 Sep 2017 A comprehensive study found mandatory celibacy […]
Cardinal George Pell’s Sexual Abuse Trials May Be Held in Secret
Source: The New York Times By Damien Cave May 14, 2018 SYDNEY, Australia — An Australian court is to decide on Wednesday whether two planned trials for Cardinal George Pell, the […]
Churches Can No Longer Hide Domestic Violence
Source: The New York Times By Julia Baird Ms. Baird and a colleague published a series of investigative articles last year that looked at how Australian church culture intersects with domestic violence. […]
Muslim and fabulous: how the internet changed fashion for Aussie hijabistas
Source: The Guardian BY Yassmin Abdel-Magied Clothes shopping as a teenager was a nightmare for me. There were the usual teen concerns about body image, budget, and whether my booty would […]
David Goodall, 104, just took his own life, after making a powerful statement about assisted death
Source: The Washington Post By Lindsey Bever On his final day, before he went to a Swiss clinic to die, David Goodall spoke about his 104 years of life — and […]
ISIS recruiter’s wife found guilty of refusing to stand for a judge in court
Source: News.com MOUTIA Elzahed — wife of a terrorist recruiter — has given the Islamic State salute after becoming the first person in NSW to be found guilty of refusing […]