Valentine’s Day is a time to celebrate all things to do with love. And as the saying goes, you are never too old for love.
Wartime sweethearts Norwood Thomas and Joyce Morris recently reunited after 71 years apart.
Norwood is a 93-year-old former paratrooper from America while 88-year-old Joyce hailed from the UK. The couple met by the Thames ...
UCA President Stuart McMillan has issued a Pastoral Statement on the legal ramifications of congregations providing sanctuary for the refugees at the centre of the Let Them Stay campaign.
From the statement –
We have been calling for the closure of the detention centres on Manus Island and Nauru for many years. The centres are breeding grounds for abuse ...
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The #Letthemstay campaign has dominated headlines and opinion pieces for the past fortnight.
Are the public protests backing the Turnbull government into a corner? Would more be achieved by working quietly behind the scenes?
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Rev David Thompson, administration minister for the Uniting Church’s Presbytery of Western Victoria has written to Sussan Ley, Minister for Health and Fiona Nash, Minister for Rural Health to protest the June 2016 funding cessation of the Health Consumers of Rural and Remote Australia (HCRRA) organisation.
Operating since 1996, HCRRA works to improve health outcomes for people in ...
More Uniting Churches in Victoria have declared that they will offer sanctuary to asylum seekers facing deportation to Nauru.
St John’s Uniting Church in Essendon was the first church in Victoria to publicly state its intention to invoke the ancient Christian tradition. This was followed by Manningham Uniting Church, Wesley Uniting Church (Melbourne), St Andrew’s Uniting Church (Chelsea), Habitat Uniting ...
Churches, schools and businesses throughout Australia fired up their frying pans on Tuesday for the annual UnitingCare Pancake Day.
Pancake Day takes place on Shrove Tuesday every year and is a fun way to bring the community together while making a real difference to people’s lives.
Shrove Tuesday is traditionally the final day of indulgence before Lent, a 40-day ...
Residents at Uniting AgeWell’s Strath-Haven Community recently received a visit from two miniature donkeys.
Wonka and Plonka are from Happy Hooves, a not-for-profit organisation that supports aged care residents, youth at risk and people living with a disability through interaction with horses and donkeys.
On the morning of 28 January, Wonka and Plonka clopped through Strath-Haven’s ...
A new report released by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) this week has found that family violence is a major cause of homelessness in Australia.
Approximately 187,000 women and children were driven into homelessness between 2011 and 2014 because of family violence. This represents more than one third of all people seeking help from homeless ...
Uniting Churches throughout the country have joined with Anglican churches to offer sanctuary for asylum seekers at risk of being sent to offshore detention facilities on the island nation of Nauru.
Churches who have agreed to provide sanctuary include St John’s Uniting Church Essendon in Victoria; Manningham Uniting Church, St Andrew’s Uniting Church (Chelsea), Wesley Uniting Church Melbourne, Habitat Uniting Church, St ...
The President of the Uniting Church in Australia Stuart McMillan has called on Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to intervene directly to prevent the return of more than 250 asylum seekers, including children and babies, to offshore detention.
“Mr Turnbull, I appeal to your sense of compassion. Please step in and make the moral decision to protect these vulnerable people,” ...
Are you still dusting off the last of the Christmas decorations? Or finishing that final slice of Yuletide cake? We don’t wish to alarm you but next week is the start of Lent, with Ash Wednesday falling next Wednesday 10 February.
Lent contains some of the most important events of the Christian year, running for 40 days (excluding Sundays) ...
Sport and online gambling are now so intrinsically linked that the integrity of sports is under extreme pressure and the human toll is rising.
Last night’s ABC story on Four Corners about online sports betting, with a focus on tennis, again highlights the very real issues that we now confront. According to a law enforcement officer quoted ...
