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	<title>Religion News Blog &#187; Australia</title>
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		<title>Australia PM questions Jesus Loves Osama sign</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many Australians will question the priority of churches which have posted signs saying Jesus loves Osama, Prime Minister John Howard says.]]></description>
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		<title>Universal Brotherhood: How a hippie dream fell apart</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the 70s, an idealistic young man decided he would change the world. With high ethical and moral principles he joined a sect in WA’s South-West. Today, he looks back on those days with some regrets. So what went wrong?
Australia, the early 1970s. Garish fashions were “in”, the bra was being burned, consumerism was becoming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Model says burqa was rape protection</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Model Michelle Leslie wore a burqa during her stay in a Balinese prison on drugs charges to avoid being raped, she said.
In an interview with New Idea magazine, Leslie revealed she wore the traditional Muslim headdress to protect herself from men inside the prison she feared would rape her.
Leslie said she awoke in the Kerobokan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: Row over Bibles in hospitals</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/14632/australia-row-over-bibles-in-hospitals</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Queensland Government has denied that Bibles have been banned from hospital bedsides because health bosses fear they offend non-Christians.
Deputy Premier Anna Bligh said media reports that the Princess Alexandra and Royal Brisbane and Women&#8217;s hospitals had stopped Bibles being left by patients&#8217; bedsides were wrong.
&#8220;If a patient in one of our hospitals wants a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gibson Asked to Stage Christ&#8217;s Crucifixion</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/11945/gibson-asked-to-stage-christs-crucifixion</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SYDNEY, Australia - Hollywood actor-director Mel Gibson has been asked to recreate the crucifixion of Jesus Christ in the streets of Sydney if the city is selected to host a major Catholic gathering in 2008, a newspaper reported Saturday.
Gibson&#8217;s staging of the Stations of the Cross, a live interpretation of Christ&#8217;s final hours, would be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hatred law needs overhaul: churches</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/10732/hatred-law-needs-overhaul-churches</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Worried about curbs on free speech, religious leaders will push Premier Steve Bracks for change.
Victoria&#8217;s church leaders will tell Premier Steve Bracks it is time to change the controversial religious hatred law.
All agree it is unsatisfactory, but they differ on what needs changing.
The leaders of the main denominations discussed the Racial and Religious Tolerance Act [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sweat lodge adherents reject &#8216;cult&#8217; label</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2004 13:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sweat lodge enthusiasts have denied that their ceremonial groups are cults and have called the death of a Melbourne man in South Australia during a traditional American sweat lodge ceremony, &#8220;a senseless tragedy&#8221;.
Rowen Cooke, 37, was pronounced dead on arrival at Leigh Creek Hospital on Wednesday after apparently succumbing to severe dehydration.
A woman claiming to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Melbourne man dies in sweat lodge ritual</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2004 06:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A man has died and another is being treated in hospital after a native American purification ritual in South Australia&#8217;s far north.
Police said the two men collapsed at a campsite on a property about 100km from Leigh Creek early yesterday.
A Victorian, aged in his 20s, was pronounced dead on arrival at Leigh Creek Hospital after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Policemen sacked for KKK prank</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/6876/policemen-sacked-for-kkk-prank</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2004 04:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a force struggling to shake off a racist image, the Western Australia police hardly needed a speed camera catching two officers racing through a town centre wearing Ku Klux Klan-style hoods.
The incident in August 2001 was condemned by officers, before it was discovered that the culprits driving at more than twice the speed limit [...]]]></description>
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