ONLINE EVENT

'Maralinga Pieces' Film: Understanding the humanitarian impacts of nuclear weapons

When: Monday 6 March 2023  6:00 - 7:15 pm AEDT  

Mid-Lent Prayer for Peace and for those affected by Natural Disaster

When: Tuesday 14 March 2023 7:00 pm (AEDT)

Where: St Andrew's Ukrainian Catholic Church Lidcombe, SYDNEY, NSW

SAVE THE DATE: 2 April 2023

Justice marches for refugees are being held in most capital cities on Palm Sunday.
Details are still being finalised. 

Voice to Parliament referendum 

Online messaging workshop for church leaders, advocates and communications professionals   

When: Friday 21 April 9.30am to 11.30am AEST

Call for constitutionally guaranteed Voice 

Released:  8:00 am, Wednesday 22 February 2023

Reverend John Gilmore, President of National Council of Churches in Australia (NCCA) is a joint signatory to the Open Letter from Australia’s leaders of major religious organisations to federal parliamentarians on 22 February 2023. The letter calls for support of an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament as requested in the 2017 Uluru Statement from the Heart.

And he said, 'Let anyone with ears to hear listen!'

Mark 4:9 (NRSV)

May our speech not be noisy and our listening, deep. 

Religious Educational Institutions and Anti-Discrimination Laws Inquiry 

The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) welcomes any submission you make. There is also a confidential survey for members of the public to share their views.

Submissions and survey close: Friday 24 February 2023.  

Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines

If one member suffers, all suffer together with it; if one member is honoured, all rejoice together with it. 1 Cor 12:26 (NRSV)

His Eminence Ephraim Maalouli, Greek Orthodox Metropolitan of Aleppo, Alexandretta, and Dependencies, describes how churches are responding to earthquake-related needs in Syria.

The aftermath of earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria

The news out of Türkiye and Syria becomes more grim each day.

Church leaders' call for prayers, and appeals have been set up to offer relief.