NCCA Newsletters (2320)
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“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing."
Matthew 23:37
Last week we entered into the season of Lent. This time of discipline and reflection is practiced across our differing church traditions in a variety of ways.
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As the three Abrahamic faiths prepare to observe Ramadan, Easter and Pesach, the World Council of Churches General Secretary, Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay, has visited Palestine and Israel to advocate for a ceasefire and promote a just peace.
2024 Dinner Series
An Evening with Asuntha Charles - Australian Tour
You are invited to a special evening hosted by the Micah Women Leaders Network with Global Women’s Rights Advocate Asuntha Charles.
When: Tuesday 12, March to Thursday 21 March 2024
Where: Perth, Brisbane, Melbourne, Canberra, Hobart, Adelaide, Sydney
Thank you
Thank you for being a part of the Christmas Bowl. Together, you are helping to create a world where everyone has a safe place to belong.
Closing the Gap
The Australian Productivity Commission recently released its Closing the Gap Report and Implementation Plan.
Bishop Charles Gauci, chair of the Australian Catholic Bishops Commission for Relations with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders responded to the report, referring to it as 'the starting point for renewed action'.
In Conversation with Pacific voices on climate
Registration is now open for the Edmund Rice Centre's upcoming webinars in March-April 2024.
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H.E Anote Tong- Pacific climate advocacy - emerging priorities: Friday 15 March, 1:30 pm (AEST)
- Reverend James Bhagwan- climate and faith in the Pacific: Tuesday 2 April, 6:30 pm (AEST)
Sunday 24 March 2024
Justice marches for peace and refugees are being held in most capital cities on Palm Sunday.
Details are outlined over.
For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known.
I Corinthians 13:12
Listening is not always easy. It is even harder to suspend our preconceived ideas...to be different and maybe even to have greater insight into a particular matter of faith than we do.
Big Walk 4 Refugees
Join in the VIRTUAL walk all around Australia in solidarity with 10,000 refugees #bigwalk4refugees
Start date: 13 February End date: 26 March 2024 … refugees will be in Canberra to meet with politicians and media event
The Christmas Bowl 2023
A huge 'thank you' to all the church congregations and supporters around Australia who took part in the Christmas Bowl last year.
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Gaza Emergency Update
With thousands of lives lost and over 1.7 million people forcibly displaced the human cost of this crisis is enormous.
“The world can’t relax while people are dying every minute... Every 10 minutes there is a child killed in Gaza..."- Nader, Executive Secretary, DSPR
Churches in common unity celebrate the Fast of the Ninevites.
Today, drawing inspiration from their Ninevite ancestors in the Book of Jonah, thirteen Churches, including; the Assyrian Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church, Syro-Malabar Church, Maronite Catholic Church, Syriac Orthodox Church, Coptic Orthodox Church, Ethiopian, and Eritrean Orthodox Churches, and others, practice this fast.
Evening Prayer for Week of Christian Unity & Annual Ecumenical Gala Dinner
You are invited to join the NSW Ecumenical Council and their hosts, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia.
When: Friday 10 May 2024 from 5:30 pm (AEST), Surry Hills, Sydney NSW
Will artificial intelligence change the way we practice our faith?
Many possibilities, and equal questions arise for Christian pastors, evangelists and the average believer.
