Queensland Synod News

In 1998, 70,000 people formed a human chain around the International G8 Conference in the UK to call for cancellation of the debt crippling poor countries. Jubilee Australia works with the global Jubilee movement to resolve the international debt crisis. Ten years on, the National Co-ordinator, Ms Adele Webb, points out that in this era of rising global food prices, ...

The answer is energy, enthusiasm, excitement, expressions of joy, ecumenism. The electric atmosphere was contagious as approximately one thousand mostly Catholic young adults crammed into the Albert Street Uniting Church on Saturday morning, 12th July for the Brisbane Days in the Diocese Prayer Time.  It was one of five ecumenical church venues in the World Youth Day Heart of the ...

In a unique new venture for our organisation, Frontier Services has been invited to be charity sponsor of the Red Centre to Gold Coast car rally in September.We will also use the opportunity of the rally to stage a number of community events in towns and cities along the route to raise awareness of Frontier Services.The Red Centre to Gold ...

 For the first time ever on Sunday, 31st August, Queensland Churches Together (QCT) will be joining with the Greek Orthodox Church of St George in South Brisbane to host a service to commemorate the Orthodox Day of Prayer for the Protection of the Environment. The public service will be held at 6:00pm in the Greek Orthodox Church of St George, ...

Legislation was passed through Parliament on 26 June 2008 that will protect charitable sector employees from the former Government’s Child Support Reforms of 2006, which had major unintended consequences for the community sector, threatening the future of salary sacrificing. The Government moved urgent amendments to the Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and other Legislation Amendment (2008 Budget and ...

Tokyo, 24 June (ENI) High ranking representatives of the world’s main religions are to gather in Japan to discuss world poverty, climate change and violence in advance of the 7-9 July meeting, in the northern Japanese city of Sapporo, of leaders of the Group of Eight industrial nations. "The globalisation of markets requires a globalisation of responsibility," said Germany’s top ...

Arusha, Tanzania, 25 June (ENI) The Zimbabwean-born general secretary of the 68-million-strong Lutheran World Federation, the Rev. Ishmael Noko, has said that those who have criticised churches for lagging behind secular society in taking leadership over troubled Zimbabwe are justified in their point, and that churches have made a mistake in assessing the country’s president, Robert Mugabe. Noko was speaking ...

Church of England Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali says he will not attend a worldwide gathering of his Anglican counterparts in July as a "matter of conscience", rather than as a challenge to the 77-million-strong Anglican Communion. "I would find it difficult to be in Eucharistic fellowship with, and teaching the common faith alongside, those who have ordained a person to be ...

Young adults dubbed "ambassadors for ecumenism" are to scrutinise the work of the Council of Churches in the Netherlands for one year as of September. The council’s chairperson, Henk van Hout, made the announcement in Utrecht at a 21 June symposium to mark the 40th anniversary of the foundation of the council, the main ecumenical body in the Netherlands. The ...

The Free Wesleyan Church of Tonga, a partner church since the first Australian missionaries went there in the 1820s, is the largest church in Tonga. Uniting Church President, Rev Gregor Henderson, attended their annual conference in June. Mr Henderson described the opening days of the conference as celebratory with a focus on feasting and long worship services including 14 choirs ...