Tag: Religious Discrimination

In a crowded field of 13 candidates, five fielded questions before a Christian audience on 8 September.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has had legal action taken against it by four former police officers who claim they were victims of anti-Catholic discrimination.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese appears to have confirmed that his government has abandoned attempts to pass a religious discrimination bill during this term of parliament, after a key May deadline was missed

Leading religious freedom scholar Professor Helen Alvaré will deliver this year’s Tim Fischer Oration in Canberra next month. The visit of this courageous advocate for conscience protections comes in the wake of the Calvary Hospital takeover and increasing pressures on religious freedom in Australia.

Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP has backed Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB’s fight against the Australian Bureau of Statistics which wants to effectively wipe religion out of the next Census.

“I think Bishop Mari will forgive the person who did this but will also expect him to be judged under the law,” Fr Lenard Ina, a neighbouring priest who knows Mar Emmanuel well, said the day after the attack.

NSW Premier Chris Minns has confirmed the stabbing of an Assyrian Orthodox clergyman in Wakeley last night was a “terrorist act,” after convening a council of religious and community leaders overnight to call for calm.

NSW Swifts netball star Samantha Wallace-Joseph had a “Folau moment” this week after objecting to President Joe Biden declaring Easter Sunday to be Transgender Day of Visibility and quickly issued an apology. If the government’s proposed new religious discrimination bill won’t protect the likes of Wallace-Joseph, Monica Doumit asks if there is any point to them at all?

The Australian Law Reform Commission’s inquiry on religious schools, the first commissioned by Labor, has offered the conclusions Labor sought—hence the prime minister’s desire to shut down further discussion. But the ALRC’s recommendations don’t pass a common sense test, writes Monica Doumit

The Federal Attorney-General, Mark Dreyfus, has extended the reporting deadline for the Australian Law Reform Commission's controversial religious schools inquiry, from today to 31...

Perth couple Byron and Keira Hordyk hope that their five-year religious discrimination battle against a foster care agency will give hope to all Christians...

Perth couple Byron and Keira Hordyk hope that their five-year religious discrimination battle against a foster care agency will give hope to all Christians...