What's on: A worship event and workshop with the Rev. Dr Raewynne J. Whiteley, co-author of Get Up Off Your Knees: Preaching the U2 Catalog. May 5 and 6. READ ON MORE
Crisis in indigenous affairs
is making us sick
A
great sickness has descended on this country,
says the Uniting Church's national director of
covenanting, Peter Lewis. READ ON
WCC presidents' Pentecost message
The
World Council of Churches calls on all member
churches to be woven together through prayer and
reaching out to each other. READ
ON
Australia should not be greedy
Mark
Zirnsak, social justice spokesman for the Victorian
and Tasmanian Uniting Church, says East Timor
should have sovereignty over all the oil and
natural gas deposits it has legal claim
to and which are closer to East Timor than
Australia. READ
ON
Postmodern kids spiritually at
risk
A
US study has found that children today, although
safer than they were nearly 30 years ago, are
more likely to be obese, impoverished, suicidal
and living in single-parent families. READ ON
Further injustice to Palestinians
an outrage
The
NSW Ecumenical Council has urged the Prime Minister
to seek the immediate reversal of the latest decision
taken in Washington and to advocate for
the implementation of all UN resolutions
pertaining to the just settlement of the
Palestinian situation. READ
ON Arafat pledges to
continue struggle. READ
ON US church leaders
fault President Bush. READ
ON Methodist Church alarmed.
READ ON Roadmap to
war. READ ON Pope says killing
of Hamas leader was contrary to will of
God. READ ON
Uniting Church condemns decision
to 'kill off' ATSIC
The
Uniting Church today condemned the Federal Government's
decision to abolish ATSIC. And the Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
Commissioner said it would simply silence
indigenous people at the national level
while the deeply entrenched crisis in indigenous
communities continued unabated. READ ON MORE
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