The hapless Public Servant - it's Christmas…
It is reported from time to time how a public servant has over-stepped the line and are bought to book. On the whole however, citizens employed within the Australian public service are energetic in protecting us by following the legislation that is designed to do just that. .
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Salvos seeking for more contribution to help the needy this Christmas
This Christmas The Salvation Army expects to assist more than 350,000 people across Australia, in both metropolitan and rural areas.
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Rainy Day distributes $25,000 to flood and drought affected families
While recent flood damage has taken its toll on rural NSW, Rainy Day hopes the distribution of $25,000 in farming family donations will bring some relief this week.
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Harold Paul: Indian Baptists in South Africa 150 years
Harold Paul told the Australian Missionary News IPTV anchorman Mark Tronson at the Baptist World Congress in Hawaii that the descendents of the first Indian migrants to South Africa are celebrating the 150th anniversary of their arrival.
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Sai Joseph among 58 delegates from Myanmar
Could anyone imagine it! Fifty-eight delegates from Myanmar (what was known as Burma) to the Baptist World Congress in Hawaii and one of these, Pastor Sai Joseph, spoke to the Australian Missionary News IPTV.
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When technology delivers results – but too late !
Recently Sarah Murdoch, the host of the Fox 8 reality program Australia\'s Next Top Model, announced the winner of the program on live television. But the name announced was not the winner.
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Refugee ministry: refugees are human beings, not statistics
The Director of Jesuit Refugee Service Australia, Fr Sacha Bermudez-Goldman SJ, says the Christmas Island tragedy in which at least 28 asylum seekers were killed yesterday should drive home the fact that refugees are human beings rather than inconvenient statistics, and that they risk their lives constantly in search of a safe future.
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Mercy Ships restoring eyesight in South Africa
The Mercy Ships eye team is at work in South Africa, where the hospital ship Africa Mercy is undergoing installation of new generators and other maintenance work in dry dock, prior to returning to field assignments in West Africa.
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Perennial theological question !
On the day of the New Zealand mine explosion, Friday 19th November, Russell Smith missed the bus for work. Otherwise he too would have been inside the mine - the 30th man trapped underground.
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UnitingCare teams up with Target to give Christmas gifts to the needy
UnitingCare and Target are asking the community to join them through their annual Christmas appeal, Operation Santa. The appeal gives gifts of love, hope and joy to vulnerable Australians thanks to the generosity of their local communities.
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Financial Boot Camp helps Pastors plan for retirement
Christian Super today announced plans for a series of financial 'Boot Camps' to be run throughout 2011 for church ministers and pastors.
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Bush: religion is not a course in self-improvement
Former president George W. Bush admitted in a recent interview that he was drunk when he met evangelist Billy Graham.
