Refugee and Asylum Seeker Emergency Appeal
Uniting Vic.Tas is calling for volunteers to assist refugees and asylum seekers about to be released from community detention with accommodation and employment.
Stepping up to run a business
Stepping Stones is a micro-enterprise training and support program tailored to women from refugee, migrant and asylum seeker backgrounds.
Being there for asylum seekers
Uniting Church agencies are calling for help in supporting asylum seekers attempting to make a new life in Australia.
Christian women pay a call on Canberra
A delegation of ecumenical women leaders in Canberra have spoken out in support of female political representation and leadership while also urging MPs to increase foreign aid and end the offshore detention of children.
UCA adds voice to getting kids off Nauru
The Uniting Church has joined with over 100 secular and faith organisations to call for the release of refugee children on Nauru.
‘Full-hearted hospitality’ for those seeking asylum
Visitors with (centre) Jayke Clayden, social cohesian worker at the Asylum Seekers’ Welcome Centre, and (right) Fay White of Castlemaine UCA.
Dignity not destitution for people seeking asylum
Thousands of people who have come to Australia seeking asylum are now at risk of losing access to critical services and basic financial support under new Government changes.
Gesture of solidarity
Uniting Church congregations throughout Australia are standing in solidarity with the refugees on Manus Island following their forced removal from the decommissioned detention centre.
Australians of the Year call for end to Manus crisis
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
Gospel and Grace start a new life in Tasmania
The story of how a Myanmar refugee came to minister a small Uniting Church congregation in Tasmania.
Taskforce chair says time to end offshore detention
The chair of the Australian Churches’ Refugee Taskforce (ACRT) has called for the recognition that offshore detention has failed, even according to its original charter, and called for detainees to be immediately settle
‘We will die’: Manus refugees send out SOS
Refugees on Manus Island are sending out desperate pleas as they brace themselves for a violent confrontation with the Papua New Guinea military after the detention centre officially closed on Tuesday.