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Moderator Sharon Hollis has written to Immigration Minister Peter Dutton to ask that he reconsider deporting Sheryil Allen, a 50-year-old woman with autism, and her 80-year-old mother Florence Allen to India, which would mean leaving behind the rest of their family in Australia.
SILVIA YANG
The Korean War caused a deep wound to all Koreans. More than 10 million people were scattered all over the country and, since all means of communication were cut off, the war-dispersed families had no way to verify whereabouts of their missing relatives.
In 1983, a live TV program titled Finding Dispersed Families aired for 138 days in ...
Uniting Church in Australia President Stuart McMillan has urged the Australian Government to take a lead in efforts to end the brutal violence against the Rohingya people in Myanmar.
“The Australian Government must urgently work alongside the international community to halt what is justifiably being described as the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya minority by military forces,” Mr McMillan said.
Jacqueline Vanderholt
Synod employee Jacqueline Vanderholt writes about her sister Sheryil who faces deportation from Australia.
Sheryil was born 28 July 1967; she was the fourth in the family of six kids. Mum and Dad were so brave to have two more kids after Sheryil.
Sheryil was a beautiful baby who never had any symptoms of ...
Uniting Church President Stuart McMillan has urged the Australian government to take a lead in ending the brutal violence against the Rohingya people in Myanmar.
More than 410,000 Rohingya have been driven out of the country by military forces and into refugee camps at the Bangladeshi border.
Christians from all denominations are invited to attend a conference on spiritual healing in Melbourne this October.
The 2017 OSL Healing Ministries conference will be held at the Waverley International Hotel in Glen Waverley from 2-6 October. The conference takes place once every three years and the theme for the 2017 event is “Walking in Faith into ...
DAVID SOUTHWELL
In Australia, the generation gap has become the accommodation gap.
The dizzying rise in house prices, which have far outstripped incomes, especially in Sydney and Melbourne, threatens to deprive many young people of what many considered a generational birthright in post-war Australia, the opportunity to call a place your own.
For those uninitiated in the decision-making process of the Uniting Church, it can be a little confusing to attend a meeting where three coloured cards – orange, yellow and blue – seem to dominate proceedings.
As Synod Standing Committee member Rev Dr Robyn Whitaker described in her sermon at the opening service to the 2017 ...
One hundred and seventy five years is an extraordinarily long period by any measure – three quarters of the entire time of European settlement in Australia – but that is the anniversary being celebrated this year by the Wesley congregation at Yarra Street, Geelong.
On Sunday 22 October, this major milestone will be celebrated with ...
Rev Denise Liersch, moderator-elect of the Uniting Church Vic/Tas synod, travelled to Germany as one of three Uniting Church representatives to the World Communion of Reformed Churches, celebrating the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, from 29 June to 7 July. She shares her experiences with Crosslight.
The deliberations of the Victorian and Tasmanian Uniting Church might not normally attract an ABC TV crew, but they were there at Synod 2017 on Sunday.
A day later ABC Lateline broadcast a story on the working group discussions of same-sex marriage that occurred at the request of Assembly, ...
Almost 300 Synod members packed Box Hill Town Hall throughout the past five days to discern and discuss the future of the Uniting Church in Victoria and Tasmania.
Rev Dr Robyn Whitaker set the tone for the 13th Synod meeting at the opening worship at St Michael’s Uniting Church. She urged Synod members to “wrestle with ...
