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Prayers for Peace – all around the world

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Don’t forget to join us tomorrow, Thursday, March 24, 2022 for “A Call to Join a Multi-Religious Prayer and Share a Moment of Silence Together: Envisioning Peace in Ukraine” in which people of different faiths and backgrounds will #PrayforUkraine. 🗓️24 March, 2022 ⏰10 AM EST 15:00 CET 01:00 AEDT 25 March đź”—https://bit.ly/3tqT2ZY Organised by Europe, … Read more

Fossil fuels were always dangerous. Now they’re fueling war on my doorstep.

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A woman reacts in front of destroyed apartment buildings
A woman reacts in front of destroyed apartment buildings March 17 in Mariupol, Ukraine. (CNS/Reuters/Alexander Ermochenko)


Svitlana Romanko is zero fossil fuels campaign manager for the Laudato Si’ Movement and based in Ukraine. She has been an environmental lawyer for over 20 years and holds a Ph.D. in environmental, natural resources, land and agrarian law, and a doctorate on climate change law, climate governance and climate policy. She also worked for 350.org, and campaigned for a Just Green Recovery and Green Deal in Eastern Europe. Here, Svitlana writes about war in Ukraine and the move for faith based organisations to divest from fossil fuels.

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Women for Sustainability – International Women’s Day 2022

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Sustainability and Women

Brahma Kumaris Australia conducted a panel of remarkable women about the fascinating and very different ways in which they are active for sustainability. These women spoke about their work, its challenges and victories and the spiritual inspiration that motivates them. This took place online, on Tuesday, 8 March from 7 – 8PM: a video of this event is now available.

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Prayers for Peace in Ukraine

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The NSW Ecumenical Council will hold an Ecumenical event praying for peace in the world, especially for Ukraine and Ethiopia. This event will take place at St Demiana & St Athanasius Coptic Orthodox Church, Punchbowl, on Thursday 24 March 2022. This is a face-to-face event and will be live streamed.

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Victorian Council of Churches Emergencies Ministry deployed to NSW

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Victorian Council of Churches Emergencies Ministry deployed to NSWOn Wednesday 16th March, the Victorian Council of Churches Emergencies Ministry deployed its first interstate team to Northern NSW to support the recovery efforts after the recent flood events. This deployment came about as the result of a request from the NSW Disaster Recovery Chaplaincy Network (DRCN) as a partner in the Australia Volunteer Emergency Chaplaincy Alliance (AVECA) and was a historical occasion.

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MCG opens a new Multi-Faith Prayer Room

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MCG opens a new Multi-Faith Prayer RoomThe Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC), managers of the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) are delighted to today unveil the brand-new MCG Multi-Faith Prayer Room, open to the public ahead of all four matches of Round 1 of the 2022 AFL Premiership Season.

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USCIRF Warns of Potential for Significant Religious Oppression in Ukraine

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United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF)Washington, DC – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) is appalled by the incalculable suffering already caused by Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, and warns that religious communities across Ukraine will likely be targeted with violence and oppression under any Russian influence

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Voice of Religious Youth on Ukraine to All World Leaders

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Religious Youth from worldwide regions speak out on the conflict in Ukraine. Youth are conscious of the need to create a future of peace, a future wherein their children and their children’s children may live in peace with one another and their neighbours.

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Muslims in Australia experienced surge of hate after Christchurch massacre, report reveals

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honouring lives lost

The Christchurch massacre triggered a surge of hate towards Muslim people in Australia, with women the vast majority of victims, a report has found.

The Islamophobia Register Australia (IRA) recorded a fourfold increase in reports of in person incidents of anti-Muslim hate, while reports of online incidents were 18 times higher in the two weeks after 15 March 2019, when an Australian white supremacist, Brenton Tarrant, murdered 51 people in an attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.

The third report of its kind, Islamophobia in Australia III draws on verified incidents of anti-Muslim hate in Australia in 2018 and 2019.

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So, we are “learning to live with COVID” — can we learn to live with climate change?

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Phoenix Mills
Phoenix Mills was up all night moving valuables upstairs at her West Ballina home as the town prepares for flood waters to peak on Wednesday. Photograph: Natalie Grono/The Guardian
As we have been forcefully reminded over the past two years, human beings cannot control the world, and we cannot escape climate change. In its many manifestations, it is seeping into our homes, our lives, and our bodies. Our leaders have told us we need to “learn to live with COVID” — to recognise that, while we can take measures to manage our lives in this pandemic, the virus exceeds our control. But can we “learn to live with climate change”?

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