A NEW grants program designed to enrich the lives of older Australians has been launched by the Commission for Mission.
Uniting Journeys is offering up to $10,000 toward responsible travel opportunities for (but not exclusive to) people 55 years and older.
Project support worker Jim Wakelam said the program also aimed to encourage intergenerational, ...
IN JUNE the congregation of Lilydale Uniting Church handed over the keys of the Lilydale Church property to the CEO of Melba Support Services.
The church and Melba had been involved in discussions for some months when the Lilydale property was earmarked for sale by the Uniting our future program at the end of 2013.
A troupe of Taiwanese Bunun singers will perform traditional songs in concerts throughout Victoria this September.
The Bunun tribe are mountain people from southern Taiwan and are one of 14 Indigenous tribes of the region.
Uniting Church minister Rev Arthur Poole has been involved with the Bunun community for more than 25 years. ...
In late May at least 15 local Islamic militants attacked a group of Catholics praying at a home in Ngaglik, Sleman in Indonesia.
The attackers claimed to be loyal to Jafar Umar Thalib, the former commander of the Islamic extremist group Laskar Jihad.
The Catholics were attacked with stones, batons, iron bars and flower ...
Uniting Church members have engaged in a number of letter-writing campaigns organised by the Commission for Mission urging the Federal Government to take concrete action to prevent FASD (Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder) and provide support to children impacted by the disorder.
“FASD describes a range of cognitive, learning, behavioural and development abnormalities caused to unborn children ...
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse has announced that the Catholic Archdiocese’s Melbourne Response will be the subject of the first public hearing in Melbourne commencing on Monday 18 August 2014.
The Commission has announced that the hearing will look at the principles, practices and procedures of the Melbourne Response. The spotlight ...
The Uniting Church Assembly has recently changed section 5.2 of the Regulations (Pastoral Care of Members) in an effort to curb unwelcome behaviour.
Among the changes is a new section about elders and church councillor behaviour. Behaviour that is deemed inappropriate can now be referred to the presbytery pastoral relations committee who can determine whether the ...
Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag, the 27-year-old woman sentenced to 100 lashes and death for the crime of apostasy in Sudan in May, arrived in Rome on 24 July with her family. The Italian government negotiated permission for their departure with the Sudanese authorities.
Mrs. Ibrahim and her family are expected to stay a few days in ...
The World Council of Churches (WCC)has called for an immediate cessation of hostilities in the Gaza Strip. WCC general secretary Rev Dr Olav Tveit issued a statement late last month in which he expressed deep sadness and grave concern at the continued escalation of military operations in Gaza.
Uniting Church leaders from across Australia are joining interfaith and ecumenical friends today in a statement of solidarity with Australia’s Muslim community.
Uniting Church in Australia President Rev. Professor Andrew Dutney is one of more than 150 faith and community leaders who’ve signed on to a declaration that “We’ll Love Muslims 100 Years.”
Shadows cast across the high ceiling of St Paul’s Cathedral combined with the echoing sounds of the Choir of Trinity College to create a true sense of ceremony at a Multifaith Service for Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 late last month.
People of various cultures, ages and faiths filled the church to pay their respects to those who perished in ...
UnitingCare Australia has commended the Productivity Commission’s Draft Report on Early Childhood Care and Learning praising proposed funding reforms.
“Introducing a simple funding system in which subsidies are means-tested and based on the cost of providing a service rather than chasing fees charged is a positive direction for the system to head,” Lin Hatfield Dodds, National Director of UnitingCare Australia ...
