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Taize Pilgrimage
 

Join the Pilgrimage of Trust.

Taize style prayer services are held at several Melbourne and Regional Churches read on>>

  
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WCC Prayer Cycle
 

This week we pray for Brazil.
See the WCC Website for prayers.

  
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Emergencies Ministry
  An update on the work of Emergencies Ministry is available.  
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Vic Unity Newsletter
 

To read the latest edition of the Newsletter of the VCC
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ICAPPI
  To read the newsletter of the International Church Action for Peace in Palestine and Israel...click here  
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World Week of Peace
 

World Week of Peace in Palestine and Israel.

 
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Book Launch
  Former General Secretary, Maureen Postma launched the book 'A Century of Prayer for Christian Unity' click here. for the text.  
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  Week of Prayer for Christian Unity  
Walk for Harmony
 

 


The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity - 24 May to 3 June

"That they may become one in your hand" (Ezekiel 37:17)

In 2009 the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (which is also the UN Year of Reconciliation) overlaps with the Week of Prayer for Reconciliation. The resources offer fresh encouragement to churches in Australia to worship together locally, to witness to their unity in Christ, and to pray and act for the greater visible expression of that unity.

Resources, such as an order of service, daily prayers and reflections are available to download.

 

  

Sunday 12 July - 1pm to 3.30pm
Commencing at Carlton Gardens, proceeding through the City to Federation Square, there will be music and speakers at the beginning and end of the walk..
Aim: To respond to recent attacks on young Indians and much negative publicity about Melbourne by a Walk together which celebrates and affirms racial harmony in multi-cultural Victoria.
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  NATSIEC Statement for Week of Prayer for Reconciliation  
  JCMA Statement
 

Why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye with never a thought for the plank in your own? Luke 6: 41-42

'The theme for National Reconciliation Week "see the person not the stereotype" is also relevant to Christians as we start the Week of Prayer for Reconciliation,' Executive Secretary of NATSIEC Mr Graeme Mundine said today.

'Reconciliation has two parts, first there is an acknowledgement that something is out of balance; an acknowledgement of sorrow and wrongs. The second part is to take action to make amends. We have seen significant actions in the past two years which have helped Australia move to a better understanding of the pain and suffering of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. read on>>

 
 

The Jewish Christian Muslim Association members have come together following the recent hostilities in Gaza, and in recognition of the need for all to maintain dialogue with each other, to produce 'The Melbourne Statement on Israel and Palestine'

JCMA is an Incorporated Association; its membership consists of the Jewish Community Council of Victoria, the Victorian Council of Churches and the Islamic Council of Victoria.


NCCA Prayer for Peace WCC
  NATSIEC Forum

National Council of Churches

Act for Peace and help build Peace in the World

World Council of Churches
Negotiation not Coercion needed in the Northern Territory.
Concerns were raised today about The Federal Government’s consultations on the NT Intervention.
Mr Graeme Mundine, The Executive Secretary of The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (NATSIEC), expressed concern that the “consultations’ the Federal
Government are undertaking with Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory are
token gestures.
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Zimbabwe Situation Update

 

The people of Zimbabwe have been forced to live their lives in the face of unspeakable acts of brutality and persecution under President Mugabe’s fierce regime. With the September 2008 power sharing agreement and the swearing in of Morgan Tsvangirai as Prime Minister on 11 February, 2009, the world is holding its breath for the fate of this crippled nation.

 

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World Council of Churches - News Release

 PALESTINIAN CHRISTIAN FAMILY COUNTERS HARASSMENT WITH OPENNESS
By Emma Halgren (*)

"A land is nothing without people, and people are nothing without a land." That's the maxim followed
by Palestinian farmer Daoud Nassar. And when he speaks of the intimate connection between people
and their land, he is talking from hard-won experience.
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Links to parish awareness kit documents on Israel and Palestine
It's time for Palestine
Jerusalem Prayer Card
Statement on Palestine
Ecumenical Service



10 June 2009
from the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ecumenical Commission
Indigenous Church Leaders Call for Negotiation not Consultation
Indigenous Church leaders from across Australia have met in Sydney to develop a unified platform for action
on the many adverse issues affecting Aboriginal people in the wake of the Northern Territory Intervention.
The forum was hosted by the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ecumenical Commission
(NATSIEC) with its members attending in solidarity with those of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Christian Alliance (NATSICA). Read more ...

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