NCCA Newsletters (2320)
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Healing of the Hurting and Helping the Wounded
By: Dr Peter Selvaratnam (Ph.D)
Content editors: Ps Hilda Samuel and Ps Helena Kaupinnen
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Building Earth Ethics in Australia: Pathways and Challenges Conference
Call for Participation—Proposals due by 30 July 2019.
When: Thursday 28th and Friday 29th November 2019
Where: Australia Catholic University, 115 Victoria Parade, Fitzroy, Victoria
How do we build Earth-centred ethics in Australian society? What barriers prevent people from developing and maintaining an Earth-centred world view? How do we address these barriers?
Anglican Church of Australia
National Study of Family Violence in faith groups
The Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia, Archbishop Philip Freier, announced that the Church will be conducting Australia’s first national research into family violence within faith communities. The Study will investigate and discuss the prevalence, experience and impact of family violence.
Representatives of Christian churches are urging Christians to celebrate September as the “Season of Creation” in an effort to raise awareness about climate change.
1 September was proclaimed a Day of Prayer for Creation by the Orthodox in 1989 and repeated by Pope Francis in 2015.
Sunday 8 December 2019 - Save the Date
You are invited to prepare for the second week of COP25 by recharging amidst beauty, with friendly dialogue and time for personal reflection.
Where: Las Majadas De Pirque - Centre for Deep Conversations, Santiago, Chile
National Conference on Strengthening Social Cohesion
Hosted by the Australian Baha'i Community
Date: Monday 28 October 2019
Time: from 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Save the date
Transforming Ecumenism - "listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches" (Rev 2:7)
Monday 22 – Thursday 25 June 2020.
Sigtuna, Sweden
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1 | The Coming of the Light |
| 7 | NAIDOC Week begins | |
| 7 | Hijrah (Islam) | |
| 11 | World Population Day | |
| 12 | 1971: Aboriginal Flag first flown in Adelaide | |
| 30 | World Day against Trafficking in Persons |
NCCA 10th National Forum
Living and Walking in the Holy Spirit: called to transforming discipleship
In the cold but pleasantly sunny surrounds of the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, Canberra approximately 60 people from 11 member churches came together for the 2019 Triennial Forum through prayer and reflection, dialogue and discernment. We gathered to renew the purpose of the Council and provide direction on Council activities and issues of focus for the next three years.
Voice. Treaty. Truth. Let's work together.
Have you marked NAIDOC (National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee) Week this year?
We are invited to walk with the First Nation people in a movement of the Australian people for a better future.
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Sign the Petition!
For the past six decades West Papuans have lived within genocidal conditions, experiencing violence, injustice, torture, and gross human rights violations.
Join us to have the Australian Government support a motion at the UN General Assembly in September to register West Papua on the UN Decolonisation List.
The Dinner is on again this weekend!
When: Saturday, 6 July 2019 7:00 - 10:00 pm
Where: Parra Villa Function Lounge 37 Campbell St, Parramatta NSW 2150, Australia
Naomi Paget Disaster and Emergency Care Response workshops
Sydney - Wesley Mission on 16,17 and 18 July 2019
Melbourne - 22,23 and 24 July 2019
Ministry can be stressful in ordinary times and extreme, even disabling, at others. We do well to understand the dynamics of how stress affects our life and relationships and build our capacity and resilience in terms of crisis management.
'The Importance of Christology for the 21st Century'
When: Friday 20 September - Saturday 21 September, 2019
Where: St Andrew's Greek Orthodox Theological College - 242 Cleveland St, Redfern, NSW, 2016.
Throughout the centuries practically most if not all theological investigation centred on the person and work of Jesus Christ, mandated of course by the various challenges during the Christian Church’s early years
