By Marguerite Marshall
This December representatives from 192 countries will meet in Paris to try and solve perhaps the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced – climate change.
According to NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), 97 per cent of the world’s climate scientists say humans are causing climate change. If we don’t act now to stem it, increased violent ...
There’s a saying in India when driving. You need ‘good brakes, a good horn… and good luck!’
If you’ve ever travelled to the sub-continent you’ll identify with this statement completely.
As well as the mayhem that passes for road traffic management – with an astonishing and refreshing lack of road rage – India is ...
Imagine bringing together 285 teenagers, a DJ with sound desk and four speaker stacks that would bring down Sydney Opera House. Add passionate staff who work tirelessly to help these orphaned and disadvantaged youths develop skills to create their own better future. Then mix it all together in a building that many of them helped to ...
Dandenong Uniting Church minister Rev Dr Apwee Ting believes there is a desperate need for churches to re-discover the art of cross cultural ministry in order to fully engage with their missional mandate.
Dr Ting – who was last month announced as the new National Director of Assembly’s Multicultural and Cross Cultural Ministry, replacing Rev Dr Tony ...
By Nigel Tapp
“We love our church but we love our God more.” – Marie Beluch.
Perched on a natural street incline, the Devonport Uniting Church has stood watch over the development of the North-West Tasmanian city’s central business district for almost 130 years.
The synod Commission for Mission wants Australian banks to rule out funding Indian business tycoon Gutram Adani’s Carmichael coal mine and expansion of the Abbot Point coal terminal in Queensland.
Mr Adani has extremely close ties to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and a dubious environmental record in his homeland. His project to build one of the world’s biggest coal ...
These haunting words encapsulate a heartening call to action.
The widespread community campaigns advocating for the lives of Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran have captured public attention and put a spotlight on the death penalty like nothing in recent memory.
While the outpouring of grief at such a senseless and highly politicised act of judicial murder continues, ...
By Penny Mulvey
We have all become voyeurs to the grief of the families of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, and the six other people who were executed overnight in Indonesia. Our insatiable desire for information led to an appalling press of media and police, which the Herald Sun captured in today’s paper with ...
Moderator Dan Wootton has joined with other leaders of the Uniting Church in calling for an end to the death penalty in Indonesia and throughout the world.
Mr Wootton says he’s deeply disappointed to learn Indonesian authorities are refusing the two Australians access to their pastors in their final moments.
“These two people have travelled the journey with Andrew ...
As the executions of Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran edge closer a broad range of individuals and advocacy groups continue to condemn the pair’s fate and use of the death penalty.
The Mercy Campaign remains hopeful President Widodo will grant clemency and is asking supporters to attend vigils and share photos on twitter and Facebook pages using ...
Uniting World is calling for donations to its Emergency Contingency Fund to help communities devastated by the recent Nepal earthquake.
The 7.8 magnitude earthquake is the worst natural disaster in the South Asian nation in 80 years. At least 3,200 deaths and 6,500 injuries are confirmed so far, with the toll expected to rise.
Uniting Church schools throughout the synod are commemorating Anzac Day with a variety of activities. Students are touring memorial sites in France, taking part in Anzac Day dawn services at Gallipoli and creating poppy installations in preparation for the Anzac Centenary.
The Victorian government selected 80 students for the Spirit of Anzac tour. The students will visit Gallipoli ...
