Sean Bean plays a Catholic priest in the new BBC drama, Broken.
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The public broadcaster wants to encourage greater literacy and promote equal coverage of all faiths, including humanism.
Faith is accommodated In Australia, but there is piecemeal protection for religious freedom.
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Religious freedom in Australia can be a source of division with examples of respect for and of government interference with that freedom.
About 30% of all Australian schools are affiliated with a religion, and 94% of private schools.
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Religion in schools has always been contentious and especially so in Australia, where there is a commitment to secular principles.
Formally organised forms of religion are only one part of the picture of Australian society.
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The relationship of Australians to religion is changing, as people find other ways to connect with their personal beliefs.
It is inconsistent with Australia’s religious diversity for federal parliament to have official prayers based on one particular religious denomination.
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Australia’s federal MPs are apparently servants of the Christian God, working for His glory.
Christianity’s effect on Australian politics is far from waning.
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In a nation labelled secular, many of our elected representatives have strong religious ties, and this affects they way they the country is run.
The National School Chaplaincy Program, introduced in 2007, is available in more than 3,000 Australian schools.
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Religious education offered in Australian state schools has variations in the quality of delivery and limited provisions for the students who opt out.
President Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga during the 2013 election campaign in Nairobi.
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Appeal to faith is a popular election campaign strategy in Kenya where the line between religion and politics is often thin.
B.A. Santamaria (left) played a significant role in the Labor split and the formation of the Democratic Labor Party.
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Viewed from today’s post-Cold War and secularised society, the conflicts at heart of the Labor split appear curiously arcane. Yet its ghosts remain.
Danny Nalliah leads both the Rise Up Australia political party and the Catch the Fire Ministries church.
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Charities in Australia can be political. They can advocate and lobby to further their charitable purposes. But they can’t be party-political.
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The problem for Jacob Zuma’s political theology is that far too many members of South Africa’s ruling ANC have been experiencing a dramatic loss of faith in a party they see as no longer righteous.
Hillary Clinton’s failure to win over religious voters has not been for lack of trying.
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The fact that so much of the religious vote will go to the obviously less religious candidate says a lot about the 2016 US presidential election.
Neither here nor there.
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When Pope Francis issued his unexpected on the Republican frontrunner, he did little to make the choice facing American Catholics any easier.
Reaching the faithful – and many others.
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For people who take the Bible seriously – not only Catholics – the pope’s encyclical on climate change and the environment will change minds.
Religion can be a force for peace, the goal of these Australian religious leaders, or conflict – the believer and not the religion itself bears the responsibility.
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There are religious and non-religious extremists and we should not confuse violent believers with religion itself, which has a long history of peacemaking.
The Dalai Lama has been coy about his successor.
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An elaborate and lengthy selection process is in danger of being co-opted by the Chinese government.
Goodluck Jonathan seeks a second term in office as Nigeria votes on March 28.
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Nigeria heads to the polls on March 28 to choose between incumbent Goodluck Jonathan and former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari.