Chocolate is a luxury that adds to our waistline and often makes us feel guilty. Yet if people knew about the exploitation and dangers kids in the cocoa fields are forced to endure, chocolate would also make them feel sick. It is estimated that in the West African nation of the Ivory Coast alone more than 600,000 children work on ...

Rich nations benefiting from corruption are making the poor even poorer The first independent report on global corruption since the election of the Rudd Government says Australia’s foreign policy needs to cut off loop-holes in corruption battle. The Uniting Church will today present the first major independent report on global corruption to the new government of Australia at Parliament House. ...

You’re the character in a video game, aliens from another planet are attacking you, enemies from another country are killing slaves, and an evil corrupt ruling power just keeps on sending their troops after you. Your character Striker needs to fight through the hoards of aliens, bullets, dead bodies, landmines, tanks, smoke and fighter planes in order to save the ...

As a direct response to the 2006 National Assembly’s request for a working group to consider the diversity of views across the Church regarding sexuality and leadership, the Uniting Church’s National Working Group on Doctrine facilitated a two day consultation in Sydney earlier this month. Six theologians from across Australia, representing a variety of viewpoints, were invited to write papers ...

Nearly 20 000 participants from 30 Baptist groups throughout the United States are meeting in Atlanta with hopes of promoting Christian unity and of forging an alliance for the first time since the American Civil War which ended 143 years ago. Initiated by former US president Jimmy Carter, the three-day event, titled "Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant", will focus ...

Mr Harry Thompson, former secretary of the Bremer Brisbane Presbytery and member of the Uniting Church congregation in Oxley, was awarded an Order of Australia (OAM) Medal in the 2008 Australia Day honours list One of 473 recipients receiving awards in the Order of Australia from the Governor-General, Major General Michael Jeffery, Mr Thompson was commended for service to the ...

There has been nothing like it since the 1980s as 300 young people and leaders from 30 youth groups across Queensland came together at Alexandra Headland for a weekend of Summer Madness. Billed primarily as a spiritual growth opportunity with great teaching, discipleship development and worship, Summer Madness was a cooperative venture between Queensland Uniting Church Youth Workers and lay ...

Don’t be afraid! I have good news for you, which will make everyone happy. This very day in King David’s hometown a Saviour was born for you.  He is Christ the Lord.  (Luke 2:10-11 Contemporary English Version) The team at Journey and the Uniting Church Queensland Synod wish you all the blessings of God’s great generosity shown to us in ...

Epworth Press 2006 You’ll have to search Amazon for this one When is a Book Review Not a Book Review? Well, this is not a book review in the strict sense though I certainly commend the book to anyone with a curiosity about ‘hope’. I was recently watching a TV program piece featuring two neurosurgeons one of whom had a ...

Rassel Chisango is not your average 25-year-old.  He is the Chief Projects Officer and one of the founders of a Zimbabwean not-for-profit organisation the Royal Youth Organisation (RYO) which provides projects that aim to empower the youth of Zimbabwe to meaningfully participate in critical development issues including the Millennium Development Goals. He is also a star of the most popular ...