11 years too long

This week marks 11 years of the Australian Government’s offshore detention policy. 

You are invited to attend an online event featuring Behrouz Boochani, writer and former Manus detainee. 

When: Saturday 20 July 2024 

Time: 6:00pm (NSW, VIC, QLD, TAS) 5:30pm (NT, SA), 4:00pm (WA)

Catholic Social Teaching and Australian Politics 

The La Salle Academy at ACU, has partnered with Catholic Schools NSW to put the spotlight on a very significant publication - Shadow of the Cross.

When: Thursday, 1st August 2024 5:00pm to 7:00pm 

In-person: The Australian Catholic University,  NORTH SYDNEY NSW

In-person and Online 

A Summit of the Future 

An invitation to a roundtable discussion about the UN Summit of the Future.

When: Tuesday 6 August 2024 at 9:30 AM - 5pm AEST

Where: Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, CANBERRA |ONLINE

‘Earth Wisdom: Hope in Action’.

You are invited to participate in ARRCC's second national Conference

Register now! Come and meet like minded, faith-inspired climate activists. 

When:  Friday 4 – 6 October, 2024

Where: Santa Sabina College, Strathfield - Sydney NSW 

I in them and you in me, that they may become completely one, so that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.  (John 17:23)

Being ecumenical is being in relationship with each other....This experience of ‘community’ formed in our being together, was rich and hopeful. 

Messages of Hope in a complex world

‘Let us hold on unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.’  HEBREWS 10:23

The NCCA Forum program was full and diverse in its richness. Delegates came together with grace and openness. 

16-23 September 2024

Theme for 2024: "Whatever you did…you did for me” (Matthew 25:40)

The World Council of Churches (WCC) invites people and churches all over the world to pray, advocate, and stand in solidarity with people in the Holy Land during the World Week for Peace in Palestine and Israel. 

World Refugee Day

Online Ecumenical Service Thursday 20 June 2024

Address by Bishop Vincent Long OFM Conv DD SSTL, Bishop of Parramatta and Chair of the Australian Bishops' Commission for Social Justice.

120 million people are forcibly displaced worldwide today.

It’s a shocking figure. When the UN Refugee agency, UNHCR released their updated Global Trends Report recently in June, the updated displacement figures were overwhelming. 

First Nations news

• Uncle Glenn Loughrey, Anglican priest - commissioned New Archdeacon for Reconciliation
  
  
• Vale Rev Dr Gondarra: a founder of the Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress