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Promoting change through Pacific prayers

QLD Synod Webmaster — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 00:18:23 +0000

The Pray for Our Pacific campaign from 3–11 September is encouraging Australian faith communities to host a special service or event to highlight the region’s ongoing challenges of climate change and environmental damage. Pacific Island nations, which are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, face a range of environmental threats such as cyclones, ...

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Let them stay with us

QLD Synod Webmaster — Sun, 06 Mar 2016 22:00:27 +0000

Churches across the country grabbed headlines around the world last month by offering sanctuary to 267 asylum seekers threatened with deportation to Nauru. What does it mean, and why did they do it? Rohan Salmond reports. Baby Asha had no idea the problem she was causing the Australian government. Asha was a healthy one-year-old baby—fully ...

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Kids in detention: good first step

QLD Synod Webmaster — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 04:10:50 +0000

While asylum seeker advocates are celebrating the announcement that some children and their families will be released from detention, they warn that there is still much to do. Dianne Jensen reports. The Uniting Church in Australia has welcomed an announcement by the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection Scott Morrison that some children in detention ...

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