RELIGION

Image:Wes Mountain It took 400 years, but sometime in the early fifth century Christians transformed a tradition about Jesus’s miraculous virgin birth into a doctrine that inextricably connected sex with sin. It has plagued...

Evangelical church teachings create fertile ground for domestic violence, its justification and its concealment. Image: Shutterstock Jane* was a member of Australia’s evangelical Christian community, and throughout her marriage she heard many sermons on...

Picture by Muhammad Ruqiyaddin/Unsplash The second Islamophobia in Australia Report launched last month, in the same week a graphic video showing a pregnant Muslim woman being punched and stomped on circulated widely on social media. Earlier in...

Can prayers bring rain to drought-stricken parts of the country? Our prime mInister hopes so. Sam Mooy/AAP In a speech in Albury last month, Prime Minister Scott Morrison told his audience that he was praying for...

The Australian Federation of Islamic Councils says the bill doesn’t go far enough to protect religious minorities in an increasingly intolerant society. Dan Himbrechts/AAP The Coalition government’s proposed religious discrimination bill has been criticised for the potential...

If this bill had been law when Rugby Australia sacked Israel Folau, he might have chosen to pursue a federal discrimination case. Joel Carrett/AAP The federal government released its draft Religious Discrimination Bill Friday. The idea...

George Pell’s appeal on child sexual abuse convictions has been dismissed. AAP/Erik Anderson Victoria’s Court of Appeal today delivered one of the most significant judgments in Australian legal history, dismissing Cardinal George Pell’s appeal against convictions for five...

Child Protection Minister Luke Donnellan said he would prosecute the state’s most senior Catholic, Peter Comensoli, if he doesn’t report suspected child abuse. AAP Image/Daniel Pockett Yesterday, Victorian Parliament finally debated a bill on whether religious ministers...

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer at the Calgary Stampede on July 6. Groups associated with the Christian right are expected to support his political party in the October elections. The Canadian Press/Jeff McIntosh The battle now raging...

Luca Signorelli, The Damned Cast into Hell, 1499-1504, a, fresco in Orvieto Cathedral, Italy. Wikimedia Commons Martyn Iles, managing director of the Australian Christian Lobby, dodged the question this week when asked by Lisa...