SEMISI KAILAHI
Victoria’s vibrant multifaith community was on show at the annual Victorian Interfaith Networks Conference (VINC), held at the Darebin Arts and Entertainment Centre in November.
Approximately 300 people attended the conference, organised by Faith Communities of Victoria along with the Darebin Interfaith Council and the City of Darebin. A number of religious and government bodies, including the VicTas ...
The King of Jordan, Abdullah II, visited Australia this week, where he signed a historic counter-terrorism agreement with the Australian government.
Jordan plays a vital role combating ISIS in neighbouring Iraq and Syria. King Abdullah II holds immense political and legislative power in the country and he was ranked second in ...
The President of the Uniting Church in Australia Stuart McMillan has condemned racist comments made by Immigration Minister Peter Dutton about Lebanese-Muslim Australians.
Mr Dutton suggested the arrival of Lebanese Muslims in the 1970s was partly to blame for a small number of Australians joining ISIS/Daesh as foreign fighters.
“Mr Dutton’s remarks unfairly stigmatise one migrant community and serve ...
Mothers in Victoria will have access to a new alcohol and other drug residential withdrawal service after UnitingCare ReGen launched Australia’s first dedicated mother and baby unit.
The facility, which opened last month at ReGen’s Curran Place centre in Ivanhoe, was launched by Minister for Mental Health Martin Foley on Monday.
Oxfam Australia has published its annual list of ‘naughty or nice’ fashion brands to help shoppers make ethical purchases this Christmas.
Since the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh in 2013, numerous clothing companies have pledged to improve workers’ safety by updating their codes of conduct and improving transparency.
Rival protests proved only a minor distraction for those attending this year’s Time for Remembering ceremony at Parliament House on Sunday.
Synod disability and inclusion office Rev Andy Calder, who was ceremony convenor, said the annual event had once again been “a great comfort and support” for those affected by road trauma.
Teenage Tasmanian Indigenous artist Grace Williams has been the driving force behind two distinctive pieces of artwork which have pride of place at Leprena, the southern Tasmanian home of the Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress.
Working collaboratively with other young Indigenous people, 18-year-old Grace designed a mural for the back fence of the property. The mural portrays the young ...
The Victorian and Tasmanian Synod has called Rev David Withers as strategic framework minister to join the team implementing the Church’s renewed vision of spiritual and strategic discernment.
Mr Withers started in the role last month and is looking forward to the diverse nature of his work as he helps the Church live out the Vision and ...
The aged care sector is facing testing times as providers seek to retain the quality of their service while faced with significant reduction of government funds.
However, this is a challenge that Andrew Kinnersly (pictured) is prepared to meet as he takes up the role of Uniting AgeWell (UA) Chief Executive Officer.
CATH TAYLOR
The halving of extreme poverty over the last two decades is one of the biggest success stories in recent human history. But chances are you haven’t heard about it.
A recent global study ‘Glocalities’, carried out by Dutch agency Motivaction, found that worldwide, only one-in-a-hundred people correctly identified that global poverty has actually halved. In Australia 90 per ...
Evidence presented over the last three years to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has demonstrated that many institutions have failed the people they are supposed to serve.
Witnesses before the commission have told harrowing stories of betrayal, a lifetime of suffering, addictions and brokenness caused by the sexual, physical and psychological abuse ...
Uniting Church member Shirley Johnson’s award-winning gardens may not quite stop traffic but they do slow it down.
Ms Johnson, who attends the Church of All Nations in Carlton, has been named Gardening Australia magazine’s Gardener of the Year. She also won the magazine’s community garden category for her efforts in making the traffic obstacles in her North Fitzroy ...
