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August 30, 2004
Adventist Press Service (APD)
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Australian Christians launch election website

Box Hill, Victoria Australia, 26.08.2004/ANN-A/APD	  The Australian
Evangelical Alliance (AEA) has launched a website to help Christians think
biblically about political and social issues before voting in the Federal
election.

The website, at www.evangelicalalliance.org.au features articles about
social
issues, comparisons of the values of political parties, discussions about
policies released by the parties, prayers, reflections on Christian
responsibilities,
song suggestions and statements from Christian politicians.

The AEA says its aim is to encourage Christians to relate faith more
directly to
social values and to create a greater level of connection between corporate
worship and social issues.

"The challenge is not to come to a common political position, but to develop
a
greater ability to think and act out of convictions derived from our
understanding
of God," says AEA's national director Tom Slater. "We believe God created
the
world, cares intensely about it, revealed basic laws which make for a just
and
cohesive society, and actually became a citizen of it in the person of
Jesus."

AEA, an affiliate of the World Evangelical Alliance, an international
fellowship
of more than 150 million Christians in 110 countries, has been operating in
Australia since 1959.

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