Past Programs
Buddhism - 2008
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Indonesia, the Ahmadiyya and radical Islam
18/06/2008
Radical Islam in Indonesia is on the march, and the religious pluralism enshrined in the doctrine of Pancasila is coming under direct attack. Last week the Indonesian government has issued a joint ministerial decree telling the heretical Muslim Ahmadiyya movement to 'stop spreading interpretations and activities' which deviate from orthodox Islam. That decree has implications for other minorities as well, including liberal and reformist Muslims, and the moderate Wahid Institute (named for former president Abdurrahman Wahid) says the country is on the brink of becoming an Islamic state.
Indonesia, the Ahmadiyya and radical Islam
18/06/2008
Radical Islam in Indonesia is on the march, and the religious pluralism enshrined in the doctrine of Pancasila is coming under direct attack. Last week the Indonesian government has issued a joint ministerial decree telling the heretical Muslim Ahmadiyya movement to 'stop spreading interpretations and activities' which deviate from orthodox Islam. That decree has implications for other minorities as well, including liberal and reformist Muslims, and the moderate Wahid Institute (named for former president Abdurrahman Wahid) says the country is on the brink of becoming an Islamic state.
Dalai Lama protests
11/06/2008
The Dalai Lama faces protests from within the Shugden Buddhist community on his Australian tour
The Pope in America
23/04/2008
US reaction to the pope's apology from the heart; Fr Tom Doyle OP, one of the leading figures who drew attention the abuse crisis, discusses a "break-through moment" for the American Church.
The Pope in America ; Broken Rites on WYD 2008; Kyogle's Three-year Buddhist retreat ends
23/04/2008
US reaction to the pope's apology from the heart; Fr Tom Doyle OP, one of the leading figures who drew attention the abuse crisis, discusses a "break-through moment" for the American Church.
Kyogle's Three-year Buddhist retreat ends
23/04/2008
Tibetan Buddhists finish a thirty-nine month retreat at the Gonpa in Kyogle
On the murder of an Iraqi Catholic Bishop
19/03/2008
Iraq's Assyrian and Chaldean Christians under attack from terrorists
Defining the "Dalai clique"; The Christian vote in federal politics
19/03/2008
It turns out that the Christian vote played a decisive role in Kevin Rudd's victory at the 2007 election. Pentecostals and evangelicals were vital in swinging elctorates that Labor needed win, and did, especially in QLD. But does this mean Labor is now "owned" by the Religious Right? that's what Christopher Pearson maintained recently in "The Australian ". He says Labor is going to have to restrain its more progressive social policy agenda. We beg to differ. What if Pentocostal and Evangelical Christians are moving to the left in Australia juts as they have been in the United States?
Defining the "Dalai clique"
19/03/2008
Unrest in Tibet, in which Buddhist monks played a leading part, as with last year's demonstrations in Burma.
