Be a responsible consumer this Easter

Did you know that children are picking cocoa in West Africa to make the chocolate we eat? 

Some of these children are trafficked.

Asia Sunday 2018

 ‘Embracing the Differently Abled and Upholding Their Dignity’

Observed every year on the Sunday before Pentecost, this year’s Asia Sunday falls on 13 May.

Dr. Mathews George Chunakara, CCA General Secretary, urges member churches and councils as well as the ecumenical partners to observe the Asia Sunday 2018 in an appropriate way.

Sydney NSW 

• New Power Politics: Confrontation & Competition in the Middle East -28 March 2018
• The Saudi-led war in Yemen: the proxy war no-one wants and no-one can win -5 April 2018
• “Australian Religious Diversity in the 2016 Census: Recent Changes & Freedom of Religion” - 18 April 2018

Melbourne VIC

• Women’s Interfaith Seder - 21 March 2018

A Lenten Practice:

I have learnt a lot from the insights of receptive ecumenism as they apply to our relational life.

Here are a few learnings:

1. Orient towards one another from the perspective of our unity rather than division....

South Australian Council of Churches 

Lenten Pilgrimage to the Heart:
May we be always ready to give up what we cannot keep in order to gain what we cannot lose

An Ecumenical Lenten Resource prepared by a team from the South Australian Council of Churches (SACC) Community for Ecumenical Learning. 

“Your right hand, O Lord, glorious in power" 

(cf. Exodus 15.6)

13 – 20 May 2018

In 2018 the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity in Australia will be observed from 13 – 20 May 2018 , the week between Ascension and Pentecost. 

Resources are now available.

Living in the Anthropocene - The Human Era

Dr Clive Pearson shares his research into climate change, the Anthropocene and theology and also of the relationship of Christian Faith to Islam.
Date: Saturday 10 March 2018
Time: 9.30am-12.30pm.
Place: Catherine McAuley Room 6 Victoria Road, Parramatta, NSW, 2150

Grasstree Gathering is a national, inter-denominational and non-denominational event which aims to celebrate, encourage, equip and inspire an emerging generation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Christian Leaders.

In 2018 Sydney will be hosting this event from March 16-20.

Justice marches are being held in most capital cities on Palm Sunday 25 March 2018
For more information visit the Facebook page for your city.

Sydney Palm Sunday Rally for Refugees -2pm Belmore Park, near Central Station 
Brisbane Palm Sunday Rally for Refugees Rights -2pm King George Square, George St
Adelaide Walk for Justice for Refugees -2pm Victoria Square,
Melbourne Walk for Justice for Refugees - 2pm State Library, 328 Swanston St
Perth Walk for Justice for Refugees – 1pm St George’s Cathedral, 38 St George’s Terrace

Melbourne School of Theology are holding a one day conference on Christian Ethics.

18 May 2018 

Wantirna campus, Melbourne School of Theology