A Scots council fears Christianity is being ignored in non-denominational schools.
East Renfrewshire education chiefs say pupils are becoming confused because of all the different religions on offer.

Frederick Purifoy II, a representative for recording artists at a gospel music label and a man of style, has a strategy for conveying faith through fashion.
When Mr. Purifoy, 31, and his friends, who call him Freddie P., ride their motorcycles around their Detroit neighborhoods, he wears a black leather jacket with "Jesus" in large letters on the back. When he attends major sports events, his T-shirt and baseball cap communicate, "God is good." When he sings with a gospel group, Radical for Christ, he dresses in a denim jacket and jeans whose insignia represents "Intelligent Blessed Brothers."

Most evangelical leaders, who strongly supported the Persian Gulf War a decade ago, are ambivalent about the prospect of war with Iraq, according to several evangelical theologians and scholars.

NSW Court of Appeal president Keith Mason has received one of Australia's highest honours for his service to the law and the Anglican Church, despite his ardent criticism of the Sydney diocese's refusal to ordain women.

There is broken glass everywhere: on the floors, covering the tables, covering papers, on beds. The Christian leaders of Gaza have gathered to offer their support and condemn the bombing of St. Philip's Episcopal Church, located within the Ahli Arab Hospital compound, on January 24.
>> Israeli helicopters fire missiles into Anglican hospital in Gaza : Canadian Press

The Honourable Justice Keith Mason and the Rev Barry Bevis were recognised in the Australia Day Honour's list. Justice Mason was made a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) "for service to the law and legal scholarship, to the judicial system in New South Wales, to the Anglican Church, and to the community." Mr Bevis was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for his "service to the community of the Hornsby area through the Anglican Church."

While some Christians continue to denounce Harry Potter as satanic,a growing number are taking the opposite view.

“SERIOUSLY inflammatory” was how a listener described lectures given by the Archbishop of Sydney, Dr Peter Jensen, to conservative Evangelicals at St Helen’s, Bishopsgate, in London, on Monday.
Dr Jensen damned those Evangelicals who had accepted “the outward form, at least”, of Catholic sacramentalism, Catholic teaching on sin or Catholic spirituality, “or who think that the central ministry is that of the bishop, or who think God is not almighty, or who think that we no longer need to mention hell”.

In the pulpit, Dr Jensen is directly and distinctly Aussie — cheery, and with a comedian’s timing that enables him to hold an audience through a demanding day. The audience at St Helen’s, Bishopsgate, though, was unlikely to challenge any of his views — indeed, someone suggested privately, and no doubt mischievously, that its Rector, the Revd William Taylor, might well fit the bill for Dr Jensen’s “Third Apostle”.

VANCOUVER - The governing body of the New Westminster Anglican diocese who last summer voted to become the first diocese in the world to officially sanction the blessing of same-sex unions, has voted against an offer by orthodox Anglican parishes to restore proportional payments to the national Anglican Church.

January 24th, 25th and 26th are days free of meetings for Archbishop Jensen Monday 27 January In the morning, travel from London to Cambridge 2.00pm Conference at St Andrew the Great, Cambridge 7.30pm Evening Meeting at St Andrew the Great 9.00pm Depart Cambridge by car for Sheffield

Evangelicals must become more politically active, faced with the threat of being compromised by belonging to the Church of England, the Archbishop of Sydney warned this week.
In a much anticipated speech, the Most Rev Peter Jensen urged evangelicals to look abroad for support as they find it increasingly difficult to remain within the fold of the Church in this country.

The official Anglican Cycle of Prayer has designated Sunday 26 January 2003 as a day of prayer for the Archbishop of Canterbury. Archbishop Peter Jensen has asked Anglicans in Sydney to observe this day (also Australia Day) and pray for the Archbishop of Canterbury and his family.

Sydney's Anglican Archbishop, Peter Jensen, has defended comments he made in London on Monday disputing the authority of the church's titular head, the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Dr Jensen said yesterday that although he was openly opposed to the liberal views on homosexuality of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, the comments he made were directed at the office, not the man.
>> Letters (scroll down to "Anglican disunity is the fault of the departees") : SMH

The human rights group, Human Rights Watch, says Vietnam has intensified repression of ethnic minorities in its Central Highlands region.