The grand old man of Penguin Uniting Church, Ted Howe, was the guest of honour at a special morning tea at the church on Sunday 22 October to celebrate his 100th birthday.
Mr Howe has worshipped at the church, on Tasmania’s North-West Coast, for almost 80 years after moving from Mole Creek to work on a local farm. He was ...
DAVID SOUTHWELL
When Coming Home art exhibition organiser Gordon Traill returned to Australia from Iraq, he was unaware that he was yet to suffer the real toll of six months spent in an urban warzone.
“When I came back I thought everything’s fine, of course,” Mr Traill said.
“There’s nothing wrong with me.”
Speaking up against oppression and injustice is not optional for a Christian, the head of the Methodist Church in Zimbabwe says.
“You cannot say you are preaching the Gospel if social justice is not part of your work,” Presiding Bishop Solomon Zwana said while in Melbourne last month.
THE Royal Commission has revealed a greatly reduced reported number of allegations of child sexual abuse within the Uniting Church than was indicated by previously released data.
At the request of the commission, the six Uniting Church synods have analysed and reclassified data to come to a tally of 430 allegations made since union in 1977. This compares to ...
“Following Christ, walking together as First and Second Peoples, seeking community, compassion and justice for all creation” – is the inspiration behind the latest project at Congress Tasmania’s Leprena community centre.
The art exhibition featuring the work of 10 Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal artists –Telling story with our takila (heart) – was launched in Hobart during ...
The Christmas Bowl is the Christmas appeal of Act for Peace, the international aid agency of the National Council of Churches in Australia.
It began on Christmas Day in 1949 when Rev Frank Byatt of Victoria brought an empty bowl to the dinner table and asked his guests to give a gift to bring relief ...
PENNY MULVEY
The federal government introduced legislation for a national redress scheme for survivors of child sexual abuse in institutions in Parliament late last month.
Minister for Social Services, Christian Porter, said the Commonwealth Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Bill 2017 aims to begin the task of alleviating the impact of past institutional child sexual abuse.
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A new project is improving literacy for Indigenous children in some of the most remote parts of Australia.
The Aboriginal Literacy Foundation’s (ALF) Northern Australian Books and Library project aims to support more than 120 rural schools in Northern Queensland, the Northern Territory and North Western Australia.
The Melton Uniting Church is one of the oldest structures in Melton. When built in 1857 the original (and still functioning) building was built for all denominations to share.
The Scottish designed bluestone building was opened 14 December 1867. A Sunday school building was constructed in 1938. This building, along with the original church, ...
Community service agencies in Launceston – Tasmania’s second largest city – are reporting a significant spike in calls for emergency relief support this year.
St Vincent de Paul Society state president Toni Muir said while it was hard to accurately tally the number of new cases, she estimated that about 35 per cent more people had come through the ...
For the rest of Thursday don’t be shy about wishing any Hindu people you know “Happy Diwali” (the ‘w’ has a ‘v’ sound), and certainly do so if you run into Kirit Kapadia.
Diwali, which falls on 19 October this year, is otherwise known as the Festival of Lights and is a national holiday in India as well ...
The Great Wall of China was constructed as an impassable barrier, which is how a lot of people see the problem of child abandonment in China.
On Saturday, approximately 150 walkers – including a team from Manningham Uniting Church – joined in a Walk the Wall walkathon at Westerfolds Park to raise more than $20,000 for abandoned ...
