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Restrict Muslim Immigration?

Rev Fred Nile lifted the debate in the two weeks prior to the election with a call for a moratorium on Muslim immigration for ten years so we could avoid the social clashes now experienced in France, UK and other European countries, and for a positive discrimination toward Christians who have suffered from Muslim persecution..

  • Christian Values from a surprising source

    Recently I attended a one day seminar from one of the most seminal thinkers in business management in the world, Professor Michael Porter of Harvard Business School gave inspiring presentations 'Winning Competitive Strategies in today's shifting Global Marketplace'.

  • Global Warming – A Christian Issue?

    The issue of climate change and more specifically global warming has become increasing prominent in Australia, as a Federal Election is fast approaching. The latest factor to boost this issue into the spotlight was the contrasting position each major party had taken to deal with global warming. The question for Christians is whether this issue should be a consideration in deciding who they vote for?

  • Representing Jesus: Public Christianity in a late modern world

    In Voting For Jesus, Amanda Lohrey criticises aspects of the current relationship between faith and politics in contemporary Australia. But deeper reflection on the nature of the Australian 'secular consensus' is needed. I want to defend the secularity of the public sphere – but for explicitly Christian reasons. Secularists need to give greater recognition to the 'moral sources' of modernity,which includes Christianity, and politically active Christian religionists need to think more carefully a

  • Christian Martyrs and the Power of Forgiveness

    If you are a follower of Jesus today, there is a very real chance – at least in many parts of the globe – that you will have to pay for your faith with your life. There have been more Christians killed in the past hundred years than throughout the previous nineteen hundred years of Christianity. Indeed, there are more than 200 million Christians today who do not have full religious freedom simply because they have confessed Jesus Christ as Lord.

  • Our Heart for the Poor

    We don't have to look very far to realise that there is great need and injustice in the world. Nearly half the world's population live on less than $US2 a day, nearly a billion people entered the century unable to sign their name or read, 850 million people go hungry everyday, with a child dying of malnutrition every five seconds, and an estimated 15 million children have lost one, or both their parents to AIDS.

  • An election, a million marchers and a mass murder

    Events in the Republic of Turkey have attracted recent media attention. Three events raise important questions for Turkey 's political future, for the small minority of Christians who live and work there, and for every community threatened by radical Islam.

  • Did you know it is Easter this month?

    Jesus listened to people so he could ask the right questions; so that through His questions they would expose the flaws in their own arguments or even their lives. He would then use their own words to challenge them to change their lives.

  • Report On The National Solemn Assembly

    In what is thought to have been Australia\'s first ever National Solemn Assembly some 1,500 people representing every State and Territory in Australia, a wide spread of Christian denominations, and a cross section of all ages, attended this 3 day gathering in our National Capital.

  • Interview: Franklin Graham on the Gospel and Sudan Church Building Project

    Graham spoke to Christian Today just an hour before he was scheduled to share the last message at the closing night of MissionFest Toronto this month.

  • Statement from the Holy See delivered to UN on status of women

    Statement from the Holy See delivered to UN on status of women

  • Tanzania Will Reveal True Anglican ‘Communion’

    All eyes are on Dar Es Salaam in Tanzania this week, as the worldwide Anglican Communion comes together for a summit which could see the Communion splinter amid the continuing row over homosexuality in the Church.