By PENNY MULVEY
After a marathon session of the Victorian Upper House this week, the Dying with Dignity legislation was narrowly passed, 22 votes to 18.
The Bill will give terminally-ill Victorians in intolerable pain and with less than six months to live the right to ask to end their lives using prescription medication.
A dozen former Australians of the Year have called on political leaders to immediately address the ‘human disaster’ unfolding on Manus Island, as police and military begin to forcibly remove over 400 men from a detention centre.
In an open letter addressed to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, 12 former Australians of the Year warned ...
A group of religious leaders – including a Uniting Church minister – were arrested on Tuesday for blocking construction of the Adani rail link.
Five peaceful protesters from Uniting, Catholic, Buddhist and Quaker backgrounds blockaded the rail line from Abbot Point coal port to the Galilee Basin, site of Adani’s proposed Carmichael coal mine.
Uniting Church President Stuart McMillan has called on church members to pray for a peaceful resolution to the unfolding crisis in Zimbabwe.
Last week, the Zimbabwe military seized control of the capital and detained President Robert Mugabe under house arrest.
The ruling Zanu-PF party sacked Mr Mugabe as their leader and demanded he resign as head of ...
Moe Turaga came back to the Uniting Church in Mildura on Sunday 29 October.
The disability services worker from Bundaberg in Queensland was returning to the Sunraysia region for the first time in 30 years – a region that holds some painful memories for him.
For three years from the late 1980s, Moe was a horticultural worker at a ...
NIGEL TAPP
When Gospel Ralte and his wife Grace decided to escape from Myanmar three years ago they told nobody, not even their two teenage children.
Gospel explained that it would have been far too risky to share their plans given the tight controls placed on Christians by the military rulers in the country.
TIM LAM
For the past 15 years, a theatre company in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs has helped young people navigate the challenges of adolescence.
Fresh Theatre for Social Change is the brainchild of Sharyn Mullens Taylor, whose husband Rev Lucas Taylor is the minister at Manningham Uniting Church.
A memorial service will be held at St Michael’s Uniting Church – on the corner of Russell and Collins Street in Melbourne – on 8 December to commemorate the 30th anniversary of a mass shooting which rocked the city.
On 8 December 1987, a man armed with a sawn-off shotgun entered the Australia Post headquarters in Queen St ...
Uniting Church members in Melbourne’s east have been meeting with young Muslims to share a mutual love of poetry.
At the monthly Poetry and Faith evenings, people from St Kilda parish share a meal with Muslims for Progressive Values (MPV) members at the St Kilda church.
Someone then presents a specially chosen poem and offers an ...
The Uniting Church has urged the Australian government to listen to the voice of First Peoples and support the Uluru Statement.
In May this year, Indigenous leaders met for three days at Uluru to discuss their approach to Constitutional Recognition.
The meeting developed the Uluru Statement of the Heart, which called for the establishment ...
NIGEL TAPP
The Uniting Church’s relationship with the nation’s First Peoples has changed markedly throughout the last three decades. Those of non-Aboriginal heritage have sought to throw off the cloak of paternalism that dominated much of the early relationship between First Peoples and the formation churches.
In 1985, the UCA Assembly unanimously endorsed the establishment of ...
NIGEL TAPP
Last year the extended Maynard family provided each of their nine children with $50 to choose what they wanted to buy for another sibling for Christmas.
The gift was not a present handed directly to the other child but something bought in their name to support an ethical project overseas.
