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TEENAGERS DELAY SLEEP TO SPEND MORE TIME ON SOCIAL MEDIA, UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE STUDY FINDS (Source: Miles Kemp, THE ADVERTISER, January 13, 2014) MORE than two in 10 Adelaide high school students delay sleep every night because of their use of electronic devices, an Adelaide University study has found. The study, co-authored by psychologist Dr Daniel King, recorded the electronic media habits …

Sydney has become a hub for virginity auctions according to a number of men and women who have planned to make their fortunes having and selling sex for the first time in Australia. In recent years a number of high-profile virginity auctions have captured public attention with a majority of them involving Australia’s largest city.  Medical student Hanna Kern, who …

In the Old Testament Pentecost was the feast which occurred fifty days after Passover. As the Passover feast celebrated the exodus of the Israelites from the slavery of Egypt, so Pentecost celebrated God’s gift of the Ten Commandments to Moses on Mount Sinai. In the new covenant of the Messiah, the Passover event takes on its new meaning as the celebration of …

By Photios Kontoglou We have made our own Christianity, a convenient, humane and reasonable Christianity, as the Grand Inquisitor of Dostoevsky says, because the Christianity taught by Christ is inapplicable, inhumane. Instead of rising towards Christ, who said “if I am lifted up from the earth I will draw all people to Myself”, we have brought Him down to where …

By Dr Guy Freeland* Ding-a-Dong Ding Even if it is those lovely Greek Christmas carols that you are into, you must have heard, if only at your local shopping arcade, that splendid English carol, “Ding! Dong! Merrily on High”, which simulates bells descending down the scale: Glor-or-or-or-or-or-or-or-or-or-or-or-or-or-or-or-or-or-ria! Hosannna in excelsis! (Apologies if I have the wrong number of “or”s.) Written …

…and the mother racked by guilt that she may have harmed the tiny child she now adores. Shannon Skinner, 20, and 24-year-old partner Anthony Hunt’s story caused media storm earlier this year Couple are showing off Amelia to the world for the first time May take years before doctors can say if abortion drugs Shannon was given to end pregnancy …

By Fr Kyril This Great Feast of the Lord commemorates His final moments on earth before being taken up into heaven. Jesus led His disciples to the Mount of Olives, and after blessing them and asking them to wait for the fulfillment of the promise of God the Father (which was that He would send to them the Holy Spirit), …

Jesus did not live with his disciples after his resurrection as he had before his death. Filled with the glory of his divinity, he appeared at different times and places to his people, assuring them that it was he, truly alive in his risen and glorified body. To them he presented himself alive after his passion by many proofs, appearing …

The education, says elder Porphyrios, lasts throughout life (lifelong education) and starts from fetal life, and constantly evolving. The most important educations and upbringing is the one held by the family. According to elder Porphyrios, the family is the first physical means of upbringing and educating people. In the first 5 years of human life the family with all functions …