Uniting Church members are encouraged to combat trafficked labour by purchasing ethical chocolate this Easter.
The Slavery-Free Chocolate campaign aims to stop the exploitation of children involved in cocoa harvesting. A coalition of anti-trafficking advocates in Victoria, including the synod’s Justice and International Mission (JIM) unit, are involved in the campaign.
This week we celebrated International Women’s Day – the theme being Pledge for Parity. And if women were looking for parity in the news, they certainly achieved it. The release of Niki Sava’s book The Road to Ruin: how Tony Abbott and Peta Credlin destroyed their own government ...
The Weeroona Uniting Church in Bendigo will perform the musical Godspell on the Palm Sunday weekend.
Godspell is a popular Broadway production that tells the story of Jesus’ ministry, culminating in his crucifixion on the cross. The musical is structured around the parables in Matthew’s Gospel and is interspersed with modern music set primarily to lyrics ...
By Penny Mulvey
in Ho Chi Minh City
“Happy women’s day!” was the warm greeting I received as I appeared for breakfast. The men buy floral displays for the women in their lives and allegedly spend the day doing the home duties the women undertake the other 365 days in a leap year.
Narana Aboriginal Cultural Centre invites music lovers to a day of arts and entertainment with Narana Unplugged II.
The festival will be held on Saturday 9 April from 12pm to 6pm at the Narana centre in Grovedale.
Indigenous rising star Yirrmal will headline the festival and perform on the purpose-built Boomerang Stage. He will be supported by ...
Women who seek alcohol and other drug (AOD) services often encounter severe barriers and discrimination that negatively impact their recovery process. For mothers, the stigma and guilt associated with drug dependence can make treatment an even more confronting and challenging experience.
St Kilda Sharks Women’s Football Club has thrown their support behind UnitingCare ReGen’s work assisting women affected by alcohol ...
The 2016 Synod meeting convenes in just over two months. All are welcome to attend the opening service at Wesley Church Lonsdale Street on Friday 3 June beginning at 7.30pm. Rev Sharon Hollis will be installed during worship before the business proper begins the following day at Box Hill Town Hall.
LARRY MARSHALL
What would happen if you brought a young Muslim, a Tamil Christian and a Sinhalese Bhuddist out from Sri Lanka and asked them to talk about peace and social justice in a Uniting Church school? For anyone who is familiar with the racial tensions in Sri Lanka post the civil war, this would seem unlikely. However, that’s just ...
A multi-faith conference exploring the relationship between spirituality and disability takes place this August at the Jasper Hotel in Melbourne. The conference, ‘Exclusion and Embrace: Disability, Justice and Spirituality’, is endorsed by a wide number of organisations including the Jewish Christian Muslim Association, the Faith Communities Council of Victoria and the Victorian Council of Churches. It will ...
A decade ago most Victorians would not have been able to confidently place the small Tasmanian mining town of Beaconsfield on a map, even if they knew it existed.
But then, on 25 April, 2006 – a decade ago this month – the Tamar Valley town became the centre of world attention when three miners ...
UnitingCare Tasmania and the Brighton Council, in the state’s south, have joined forces to educate struggling families on the nutritional benefits of fresh food as well as help them develop the skills to grow their own produce.
The innovative partnership – which is also supported by a six-month Work for the Dole project – will see community ...
Retired Uniting Church minister Bob Faser remembers attending an ecumenical service in Hobart for the victims of the Dunblane Primary School massacre, in Scotland, in March 1996.
Mr Faser recalls how the general feeling among attendees was one of gratitude that Tasmania was shielded by its isolation from facing such horrors.
