Two more Baha'i leaders released

It is with great pleasure we advise of the release of the fifth and sixth Baha’i leaders in Iran.

Mr Jamaloddin Khanjani and Mr Vahid Tizfahm, have now been released from prison after completing their ten-year sentence.

Safe Church Training Agreement

The NCCA Safe Church program will be running a SCTA Safe Church Awareness presenter training in Sydney 2 June 2018

Time: 9:00am - 4:30pm
Venue: Baptist Churches NSW & ACT Level 1, 3 Carlingford Road, Epping NSW
Cost: $330 including GST

Introducing Rev Janet Woodlock

The Rev Janet Woodlock has just recently begun working with the NCCA as a Project Officer. Her role will see her based in Melbourne and engaging with our member Churches, ecumenical partners and friends. We are privileged to have Janet share her gifts of ministry and Christian leadership with us in this capacity.

Be a responsible consumer this Easter

Did you know that children are picking cocoa in West Africa to make the chocolate we eat? 

Some of these children are trafficked.

Asia Sunday 2018

 ‘Embracing the Differently Abled and Upholding Their Dignity’

Observed every year on the Sunday before Pentecost, this year’s Asia Sunday falls on 13 May.

Dr. Mathews George Chunakara, CCA General Secretary, urges member churches and councils as well as the ecumenical partners to observe the Asia Sunday 2018 in an appropriate way.

Sydney NSW 

• New Power Politics: Confrontation & Competition in the Middle East -28 March 2018
• The Saudi-led war in Yemen: the proxy war no-one wants and no-one can win -5 April 2018
• “Australian Religious Diversity in the 2016 Census: Recent Changes & Freedom of Religion” - 18 April 2018

Melbourne VIC

• Women’s Interfaith Seder - 21 March 2018

A Lenten Practice:

I have learnt a lot from the insights of receptive ecumenism as they apply to our relational life.

Here are a few learnings:

1. Orient towards one another from the perspective of our unity rather than division....

South Australian Council of Churches 

Lenten Pilgrimage to the Heart:
May we be always ready to give up what we cannot keep in order to gain what we cannot lose

An Ecumenical Lenten Resource prepared by a team from the South Australian Council of Churches (SACC) Community for Ecumenical Learning. 

“Your right hand, O Lord, glorious in power" 

(cf. Exodus 15.6)

13 – 20 May 2018

In 2018 the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity in Australia will be observed from 13 – 20 May 2018 , the week between Ascension and Pentecost. 

Resources are now available.

Living in the Anthropocene - The Human Era

Dr Clive Pearson shares his research into climate change, the Anthropocene and theology and also of the relationship of Christian Faith to Islam.
Date: Saturday 10 March 2018
Time: 9.30am-12.30pm.
Place: Catherine McAuley Room 6 Victoria Road, Parramatta, NSW, 2150