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Royal Commission

Religions for Peace Australia is providing coverage of state and national inquiries into child sexual abuse with multi-faith and interfaith perspectives as a service to the interfaith community.

This select coverage is offered as service to the religious and faith communities of Australia; there is no intention to single out nor provide critique of any single institution … Religions for Peace gives service to multifaith, multicultural and Interfaith networks.

All states urged to act on Vic report

November 15, 2013 by Admin

Vic Parliamentary Enquiry

All Australian states are being urged to change laws preventing the Catholic Church from being sued and to consider a compensation fund for victims of child sex abuse.

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Royal Commission Upates: Public Hearings and new Issues Paper

August 17, 2013 by Admin

Royal Commission

The Royal Commission has commenced private hearings and has issued several updates on its websites. A public hearing will be conducted in the Hunter Valley in September.

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Forgotten Australians find their voices

July 25, 2013 by Admin

Forgotten Australians

How hard will it be for people who grew up in orphanages and homes to make a submission to the Royal Commission?

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Vatican must report to UN on child abuse

July 11, 2013 by Admin

UN

The Vatican has been called to give detailed information on its record on child sexual abuse to a United Nations panel.

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Non-Christian Religions respond

July 11, 2013 by Admin

Parliament of Victoria

A number of non-Christian religious organisations have provided responses to the Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry.

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Royal Commission calls for public responses

July 11, 2013 by Admin

Royal Commission

The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has requested community participation in its issues papers.

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Royal Commission releases Issues Paper

June 18, 2013 by Admin

Royal Commission

The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse today commenced an important new phase of its work with the release of an Issues Paper on the Working with Children Check.

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Pope Francis directs decisive action

April 6, 2013 by Admin

Pope Francis

Pope Francis has told the Vatican’s chief doctrinal enforcer he should respond “decisively” to the issue of sexual abuse of minor by clergy, the Vatican said Friday.

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Dublin and Cloyne: Judge Yvonne Murphy speaks

March 14, 2013 by Admin

Bishops Residence Cloyne

Judge Yvonne Murphy who headed the judicial Commission of Investigation into clerical sexual abuse in the Archdiocese of Dublin and the diocese of Cloyne gave the Annual Justice Michael Kirby lecture.

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Interfaith and Royal Commission Terms of Reference

January 21, 2013 by Admin

Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse

Prime Minister Julia Gillard has announced the terms of reference for the Royal Commission into institutional child abuse, with plans for a legislative change to allow for more evidence to be submitted.

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Religions for Peace Australia acknowledges the traditional owners of country throughout Australia and their continuing connection to land and community. We pay our respect to them and their cultures, and to the elders both past and present.

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2018 Interfaith Calendar

Calendar of Cultural and Religious Dates lists events for different cultural groups and faiths in Australia, 2018.

Faiths for Earth

Faiths for Earth is a common initiative among the World's Religions, led by Religions for Peace to unite in a supreme effort to Protect the Earth We Have. To read about Faith and Climate Change, click this image: faithsforearth

COP 23 Interfaith Climate Statement

At COP23 in Bonn, Germany in November 2017, a coalition of diverse faith and spiritual groups share a declaration and their initial commitments to lifestyles of compassionate simplicity for the sake of the climate. We invite you to read the statement and sign the statement online.

Australian Religious Response to Climate Change

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Visit the website of the Australian Religious Response to Climate Change

Interfaith Resources for Domestic Violence

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Booklet produced by City of Greater Dandenong Interfaith Network

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Promoting Equal and Respectful Relationships in Faith Communities: a Manual and Tool Kit

Offer A Meal

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Religions for Peace Australia invites you to join the worldwide Offer a Meal Movement – a movement which skips a meal a couple of times a month in solidarity with–and prayer for –those suffering from hunger, extreme poverty or violent conflict.

The Golden Rule

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An Australian Version of the Golden Rule Poster - with Australian Aboriginal ethic - is available.

Anti Racism

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Religions for Peace Australia has partnered with the Australian Human Rights Commission Anti Racism Strategy

Interaction

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Affliated with Religions for Peace Australia, InterAction is Interfaith Youth building a generation-wide movement of young people. Inspired by individual spiritual traditions, InterAction works together to build a better world. Visit Interaction

9th World Assembly

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The 9th World Assembly of Religions for Peace was held in Vienna during November, 2013. Theme Papers and Resources are available.

Religions for Peace

Religions for Peace Australia is a global, community-based organisation working for global peace across the world and for social cohesion in Australia in other countries, and for peace and co-operation between the religions of the world. It works for an understanding of the benefits that religion and religious moderation brings to society, and works against religiously based extremism that is violent. Religions for Peace Australia has affiliates and branches in all states of Australia.

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