The world is facing an unprecedented ecological crisis. Figures released by NASA over the weekend confirmed that last month was the hottest April ever recorded globally. With 2016 on track to be the hottest year on record, the need to care for God’s creation is more urgent than ever.
World Environment Day, celebrated annually on 5 June, falls ...
Homelessness has been in the news this week following a Herald Sun report that claimed “aggressive beggars” are “jeopardising Melbourne’s reputation”.
In Melbourne’s City Square, a group of homeless people has created a makeshift shelter in response to rising hostility from the public. The temporary campsite is built underneath ...
International Nurses Day, held on 12 May every year, highlights the important contributions nurses make to society. From helping patients affected by life-threatening illnesses to caring for the elderly, nurses are unsung heroes who quietly work behind-the-scenes.
Nurses play an important role at Uniting AgeWell and make up approximately 20 per cent of their staff.
Freedom Stories is a collaborative documentary that explores the struggles and achievements of asylum seekers who arrived in Australia in 2001. Now Australian citizens, they have rebuilt their lives and are contributing to their new country.
Crosslight spoke with Freedom Stories director Steve Thomas about his motivations behind the documentary.
On National Volunteer Week, the Uniting Church pays tribute to the thousands of volunteers who serve their church and community.
According to Volunteering Australia, more than six million Australians participate in formal volunteering each year. Many Uniting Church members are involved in volunteer activities, both in their congregation and in the wider community.
Television presenter Waleed Aly won the Gold Logie on Sunday night, dedicating his award to “people with unpronounceable names”.
The 37-year-old Walkley Award-winning journalist, commentator, academic and lawyer became the first non-Anglo Australian to win the award.
Mr Aly was educated at Wesley College in Glen Waverley, a Uniting Church school, and later completed a Bachelor of Engineering and ...
As billionaire property developer Donald Trump continues to bully and bluster his way towards the Republican presidential nomination in the United States, many are left scratching their heads at how this could happen. A man who is openly racist, sexist, mocks people with a disability and threatens to sue those who ...
Over the weekend in Adelaide 400 women and one ‘token male’ gathered to hear stories of hope, along with a bit of ‘Dancing Queen’.
Sharing Stories of Hope was the theme of the four-day UnitingWomen conference that wrapped up on Sunday.
Clarence Uniting Church minister Rev Ann Perrin left from Tasmania to make the first day of the conference ...
Uniting Church leaders have responded to the 2016-17 Federal Budget that was delivered last night by the Treasurer, Scott Morrison.
Stuart McMillan, President of the Uniting Church in Australia, described the budget as a “missed opportunity” to alleviate poverty and disadvantage at home and abroad.
“There is not nearly enough in this Budget to assist the most vulnerable,” Mr ...
Former State Health Minister Bronwyn Pike has been appointed inaugural Chair of the new UnitingCare single Agency Board.
UnitingCare will become one of the largest community service organisations operating in Victoria and Tasmania under a new single governance structure aimed at strengthening its ability to support people in need throughout the two states.
A recent National Geographic report seemed to confirm what many have suspected – the number of Christians is declining in Australia, as it is throughout much of the Western world.
Atheists, agnostics and people who identify themselves as nonreligious now constitute the second largest ‘religious’ group in Australia. ...
UnitingJustice Australia national director Rev Elenie Poulos has called for the immediate transfer of all asylum seekers on Manus Island to Australia.
On Tuesday, the Papua New Guinea (PNG) Supreme Court ruled that the detention of 850 men on Manus Island breaches the detainees’ right to personal liberty under the PNG constitution.
