A new report released by the UK-based Christian Solidarity Worldwide and US-based China Aid Association, details a Government-funded campaign to eradicate house churches throughout China in the lead up to the Olympics.

Even though he’d recently heard the shattering news about Cyclone Nargis, the principal of Burma’s leading evangelical Bible college remained positive about spiritual hope for his home country as he spoke to a gathering of Australians last month.

There has been no significant division in Melbourne Diocese after the consecration of the Diocese’s first woman bishop, Barbara Darling, on May 31.

The furore over acclaimed artist Bill Henson’s latest exhibition has been called the “greatest art scandal in a decade”

CEO of Scripture Union Queensland, Tim Mander said significant take-up of the $20,000 Federal Government chaplaincy grants – up to 70 per cent in some states – indicates school satisfaction with the national program, despite the retiring Democrats’ Lyn Allison calling it “discriminatory” for funding religious chaplains only.

Deaconess Margaret Rodgers was elected president of the NSW Council of Churches on June 3, the first woman in the role.

The existence of aliens is possible and Christians should not be rocked if scientists discover life on Mars

Southern Cross reports on the main decisions of the diocesan Standing Committee in May and June.

List of parishes and provisional parishes, vacant or becoming vacant as at 23 June 2008.

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Bryan Cowling argues the fruit of the Rudd Government’s 2020 Summit betrayed its economic rationalist agenda in education.

Has the Archbishop’s call to Prayer for Connect09 got you thinking as well as praying?

As we prepare to take the good news to our neighbourhoods in 2009, even a weak faith in the right Lord can achieve great things.

The opening track immediately got my attention. It has a sparse, unusual introduction, suggestive of the Plain White T’s.

Richard’s new album, Free Running, provides a wonderful portrait of Richard’s gifts as saxophonist, composer and arranger, as well as his serious Christian conviction.