Monthly Archives: November 2009

"Liturgical action" at Word

MorePraxis has organised Abolitionist Anti-Sweatshop Caroling and a public liturgy event. Contact Adrian: age@morepraxis.org.au for more info. For more general information about the campaign go here STOP PRESS update (4 Dec 09) – it appears that the Word Bookstore may …

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“Liturgical action” at Word

MorePraxis has organised Abolitionist Anti-Sweatshop Caroling and a public liturgy event. Contact Adrian: age@morepraxis.org.au for more info. For more general information about the campaign go here STOP PRESS update (4 Dec 09) – it appears that the Word Bookstore may …

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Koorong Issues Fair Trade Policy

The Justice and International Mission Unit of the Uniting Church in Victoria and Tasmania look forward to continued collaboration with Koorong.

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Banks must prove they give a dam

MARK ZIRNSAK November 27, 2009 UCA Funds Management, an entity of the Uniting Church in Australia, operates several investment funds, all of which have investments in ANZ. As an ethical investor, it raised concerns with the bank about the evidence …

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Are We There Yet?

An event launching a Year of Re-commitment to Addressing the Unfinished Business of Reconciliation” ANTaR Victoria forum Sponsored by the Victorian Equal Opportunity & Human Rights Commission Welcome to Country: Aunty Joy Murphy Wandin is an Aboriginal Elder of the …

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A Massacre Most Foul, Gross, and Utterly Repugnant

Yet even as we grieve and mourn, we are outraged. We are outraged that government has not acted with dispatch. Two days after news of the carnage broke out, the suspected mastermind has not been taken into custody. From day one, the spokesperson of the Armed Forces of the Philippines already identified the suspected mastermind – a known staunch ally of the President and undeniably a political warlord in Maguindanao. We join the demand for the Government to take action but, we are appalled that a state of emergency has been declared in Maguindanao. For so long, Mindanao has been militarized and used to justify more military hardware and budget. What other more powers does the government need?

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Update on Orissa situation in India

Members of the Justice and International Mission Unit were recently in India meeting with Uniting Church partner church, the Church of North India (CNI). The CNI reported that there are at least 3,000 Christians living in tents in Orissa as …

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World Council of Churches passes resolution on the responsibility of churches for communities enduring anti-Christian violence

On 2 September the World Council of Churches (WCC) Central Committee passed a resolution in recognition that Christian communities in many parts of the world today are the targets of different forms of religiously motivated violence or find themselves under …

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