Jessica Craven in the Herald Sun
Anglican Archibishop of Melbourne Dr Phillip Freier has lashed out at the Baillieu Government's mandatory sentencing plan for juveniles, describing it as a flawed plan which would delay justice for both perpetrators and the victims of crime.
From Anglican Taonga
Deans from across Australia, New Zealand and Fiji gather in the Cathedral this Thursday (11 August) to spend a few days in conference and sharing of ideas, challenges and joys.
By David Crampton, Ecumencial News International
SYDNEY--Australian church leaders are criticizing a government solution to deport hundreds of asylum seekers to Malaysia as a "swap" to settle 4000 refugees from Malaysian detention centers.
From the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne website
Asylum seekers should be detained no longer than a month and only on Australian soil, the Archbishop of Adelaide said in a recent media release.
Issued by the Diocese of Ballarat.
It is with great joy that we convey that the next Bishop of Ballarat is to be the Right Reverend Garry Weatherill. Bishop Garry was elected by the Bishop Election Board, chaired by Ms Alice Knight. Bishop Garry will be enthroned in Christ Church Cathedral Ballarat on Saturday, November 5 at 11 AM.
From Anglican Diocese of Melbourne
Anglicans from Melbourne and all over the world are offering prayers and support to Sudan and striving to find ways to help the chaos-torn nation, which is soon to be split into two separate countries.
By Jane Still, Communications Manager, Anglicord
Anglicans in Melbourne, where large numbers of Sudanese refugees have settled, have expressed deep concern about escalating violence in Sudan that threatens to plunge the beleaguered country into another civil war.
From the website of the Anglican Diocese of Gippsland
An appeal has been launched by the diocesan Sudanese Ministry based in Moe to help fund an English-speaking program for the Sudanese.
An address by Dr Phillip Aspinall, Primate and Archbishop of Brisbane, at the All Saints' Church Service Sunday 16 January 2011.
We come together this morning to a certain extent still in a state of shock about what’s happened in the past week. Though it’s not the first flood to hit Ipswich and Brisbane with such devastating force, and may not be the last, that doesn’t make it any easier to deal with the grief and pain and heartache of what’s happened this time.
The first two of the Wellington Anglican priests who’ve offered to help in flood-ravaged South-West Queensland will fly to Brisbane on Thursday.
From Anglican Diocese of Melbourne website
How can there be a God when people are suffering through floods and fires? How can God sit back and allow bad things to happen to good people? A new online resource from the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne offers answers to these and other difficult questions as the Church seeks to engage directly with the rising “New Atheism” phenomenon.
By Muriel Porter, The Church Times
THE Australian Primate, Dr Phillip Aspinall, who is the Archbishop of Brisbane, in Queensland, has launched an appeal to assist flooded parishes in his province.
By Mary Frances Schjonberg, Episcopal News Service
Churches and diocesan buildings in the northern and western regions of the Anglican Archdiocese of Brisbane are among those that have been inundated during flooding that began before Christmas.
by Muriel Porter, The Church Times' Australia Correspondent
THE diocesan registry in Rockhampton, central Queensland, became a victim of the floods that have all but isolated the cathedral city from the rest of Australia.
Anglicans in the Australian diocese of Perth are calling on others across the Communion to join them in giving newcomers from overseas a warm Christian welcome.
An Anglican Army chaplain who recently served in Afghanistan has been awarded a Churchill Fellowship to help heal war veterans suffering from spiritual wounds.
The Anglican Church of Australia's Appellate Tribunal says it disagrees with the Diocese of Sydney's decision that people other than priests may preside at Eucharist.
As the death toll from the cataclysmic fires that continue to sweep rural Victoria, creeps towards 200, Anglicans from the worst affected town are determined to rebuild their devastated church.
But for Marysville residents their long journey has only just begun.
Bishop John Parkes of Wangaratta Diocese, which includes Marysville, has indicated the church, which has a congregation of approximately 50, will need a considerable amount of support a long way into the future.
“The Australian people have been hugely generous… and governments are putting lot of money into rebuilding infrastructure – but the real issue for us is going to be sustaining priestly ministry,” he says.
