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Breaking bread together at Iftar

QLD Synod Webmaster — Mon, 03 Jul 2017 06:12:55 +0000

In a sign of solidarity and friendship with the Muslim community of South East Queensland, the Queensland Synod has hosted its first Iftar dinner with Muslim partners. Synod research officer Sue Hutchinson reports. Ramadan is a significant and sacred time for Muslims, marked by fasting from sun-up to sunset. The Iftar meal is the daily ...

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Friday’s religion wrap

QLD Synod Webmaster — Fri, 31 Mar 2017 01:24:33 +0000

The Journey team selects stories that got us talking this week. Lent for Gen Y: junk food and tweets get the goodbye ABC News explores Lent for millennials and what they’ll be giving up for the season. While some have chosen to abstain from drinking alcohol to mark the occasion, many young Christians are choosing to boycott social ...

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Dangerous ideas cause chain reaction

QLD Synod Webmaster — Tue, 31 May 2016 23:45:50 +0000

A new forum to explore outside-the-box thinking was a smashing success at Synod. Journey reports. Hundreds gathered for Unchained, a half-day festival held during Synod in Session to air dangerous ideas about how the Uniting Church might re-imagine itself and its place in the world. The event evolved from a suggestion first made by the ...

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Brisbane’s faith leaders welcome Dalai Lama, agent of peace

QLD Synod Webmaster — Mon, 06 Jul 2015 02:00:10 +0000

A visit from the Dalai Lama brought Brisbane’s civic and religious leaders together in June at a multifaith service of prayer for world peace. Rohan Salmond reports. The moderator of the Uniting Church Queensland Synod has gathered with the Dalai Lama along with Brisbane’s other religious and civic leaders at St Stephen’s Cathedral for a ...

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Uniting Church mourns for Sydney

QLD Synod Webmaster — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 06:34:03 +0000

The Uniting Church in Australia mourns the deaths of those caught up in the hostage-taking incident in a café in Sydney’s Martin Place. Moderator of the Uniting Church in NSW and the ACT Rev Myung Hwa Park has offered prayers and condolences on behalf of the Church. “We continue to pray for those caught up in ...

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Uniting Church minister explains why he protests

QLD Synod Webmaster — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 06:20:52 +0000

Anti-coal activists at the controversial open-cut coal mine at Maules Creek, near Narrabri, New South Wales are at times surprised to find themselves accompanied by a Uniting Church Minister. Rev John Brentnall joined a blockade for the third time on 26 November, together with three Buddhists and another Christian, this time at the gate of ...

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Love your neighbour

QLD Synod Webmaster — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 00:00:34 +0000

Since the activities of the so-called Islamic State have made the news, anti-Muslim sentiment in Australia has been at an all-time high. Rohan Salmond speaks to some interfaith activists working to build understanding across religious lines. A black silhouette wielding a knife stands over a man kneeling in an orange jumpsuit. It’s an image so ...

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Synod resolutions show concern for others

QLD Synod Webmaster — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 03:31:56 +0000

A number of general proposals were passed by consensus during the 31st Synod in Session, many focussing on the church’s call to love our neighbour as ourselves. Constitutional recognition A proposal brought to the Synod by UnitingCare Queensland CEO Anne Cross and Calvary Presbytery Minister Rev Dennis Corowa called the church to join UnitingCare Queensland ...

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Interfaith support for Australia’s Muslims

QLD Synod Webmaster — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 05:44:14 +0000

Uniting Church leaders from across Australia joined interfaith and ecumenical friends on 22 August in a statement of solidarity with Australia’s Muslim community. Uniting Church in Australia President Rev Dr Andrew Dutney is one of more than 150 faith and community leaders who has signed on to a declaration that “We’ll Love Muslims 100 Years”. ...

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Hope for the Holy Land

QLD Synod Webmaster — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 00:50:27 +0000

The Holy Land is stitched into the fabric of the Christmas story. Could Mary and Joseph make their way to Bethlehem in today’s conflict-ridden West Bank? Mardi Lumsden explores hopes for peace in Israel and Palestine. From its beginning, Jerusalem has been a city in conflict, and the regions around have been conquered and fought over for ...

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