Anglicare, the welfare arm of the Sydney Diocese, has announced major changes to its division responsible for a wide range of church-focused services.

On paper, Anglicare is marginal to the Dioceses main game of church planting. JEREMY HALCROW investigates the implications.

Its a long way from the town of Cheng Du to Sydney, but the journey has been the most important one of Wendy Wengs life.

Andrew Lim, a self-confessed technology junky, says ministers hoping to keep in contact with the generations of the new millennium will have to learn to make advances in communication work for them.

From the earliest days of the Sydney colony, Anglicans have been involved in 'good works. Anglican Chaplain Samuel Marsden established schools for orphans and training institutions for convict mums. These became the forerunners of the Church of England Homes.

Evangelicals in former Communist Europe deserve support from like-minded Christians in Australia says Archbishop Peter Jensen, recently returned from speaking to 300 evangelical leaders in Hungary.

Childhood is a precious and fragile time. In the first years of life children learn and absorb at a rate that exceeds any other stage in life. From conception to birth and beyond, children are little miracles. Their very existence is testament to the profound genius of a creative God. Yet in the daily work of parenting the miraculous can be overwhelmed by the mundane. Parenting is hard. It can be humbling and frustrating.

One moment he was behind razor wire; the next he was standing on the side of the road. Long-term Christian detainee Arta Zaheedis three years of detention at Villawood Detention Centre came to an abrupt end on Tuesday afternoon.