Canberra high school students get a taste of living in poverty
More than 200 students from 31 schools across Canberra will get a first-hand insight into what it's like to live in poverty at the World Vision Global Leaders Convention (GLC) to be held Today. .
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Laguna Quays Respite for Missionaries has even received bookings from overseas!
'Basil Sellers' Laguna Quays Respite facility for missionaries located on the Whitsundays mainland a little south of Proserpine on Repulse Bay, has enjoyed a bountiful array of bookings including the latter part of 2012.
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Theological and Philosophical Sports Ministry Study – London Calling No 17 – 8 weeks to the Olympics
The theological and philosophical study of sports and the human condition is an essential ingredient in being involved in sports ministry.
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Saving sight in India
There's a classic Hollywood thriller about the frightening pursuit of an elusive thief. National Glaucoma Awareness Week from 11 June features the theme Glaucoma: the Thief of Sight. It is all too accurate. The frightening reality is that glaucoma usually leads to blindness but so often goes undetected. Although glaucoma remains incurable, medical treatment proves effective. When detected and treated early enough, blindness can be prevented.
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Environmental Biological Control: the good, the bad and the ugly
From his extensive travels around the wide Australian continent, Mark Tronson, Chairman of Well-Being Australia, sees for himself that he lives in an isolated continent in which most of the flora and fauna are unique. With its thin, infertile soils and variable, harsh climate, it is particularly vulnerable to invasion by foreign animals and plants.
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Women as high achievers! 'Home-making' should never be excluded any such a category!
A recent article in the Sydney Morning Herald titled "Why women are still keeping score" states that women hold the bulk of the country\'s top jobs:
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Report: One third of Australian passport pickpocket loses has been in Spain: What's happening in Spain?
"According to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australians last year reported 892 stolen passports (more than a third of those were in Spain)," as quoted by travel writer Nick Galvin in a recent article in the Travel section of the Sydney Morning Herald.
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A back to basics railway agenda or ideologues of free enterprise as the only option
Once again the public transport situation has hit the headlines and this time its cutting jobs in New South Wales and by separating the operational working of intra-regional railways to that of city railway. Some have expressed concerns that this is the first step to privatisation.
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Interview of leading Olympic Evangelist - London Calling No.14 – two months to the Olympics
Olympic evangelist Dr Sam Mings, the founder and president of Lay Witnesses for Christ International, honoured an Australian Baptist minister and his wife, Mark and Delma Tronson, by recording for them a short video extolling their Sports and Olympic ministry of 30 years. This interview is available on the Australian Missionary News IPTV.
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Film '58' looks at the possibilities of ending poverty in this lifetime, touring Australia
In an Australian premiere film event, 58: The Film confronts one of the biggest questions of our times: is it possible to end extreme poverty in our lifetime? Compassion Australia is bringing 58: The Film to screens across the nation's capital cities in May and June 2012.
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SA lawyers say same-sex marriage bills are unconstitutional
A coalition of South Australian lawyers have raised their concerns that the current Same-Sex Marriage Bills before the Commonwealth Parliament are likely to be unconstitutional. Adelaide barristers Neville Rochow SC and Christopher Brohier, who lead Lawyers for the Preservation of the Definition of Marriage (LPDM), have argued before the House of Representatives and Senate enquiries that the marriage and the external affairs powers of the Australian Constitution are not available to support the
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Christian pregnancy support centre opening in Surry Hills
The Surry Hills Pregnant Alternatives pregnancy support centre will be opening officially on the June 2, 2012 from 9:00 - 11:00AM.
