Faith Communities Call For Historic Investment In Clean Energy And Phase Out Of Fossil Fuels

Australian Religious Response to Climate Change logoThe Australian Religious Response to Climate Change will conduct a national day of action next Tuesday, 17th September, part of a Multi-Faith Faiths 4 Climate Justice Week of Action 14 – 24 September. Religious leaders and people from Catholic, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, Anglican, Uniting Church and other faith communities will be participating.

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Australian Religious Response to Climate Change: Conference 2024

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The Australian Religious Response to Climate Change (ARRCC) warmly invites you to participate in their second national Conference, from 4-6 October, 2024, Strathfield, NSW.

The Australian Religious Response to Climate Change has a unique role in Australia in bringing together diverse people of faith as witnesses to both our common humanity and respect for the earth.

Groups and communities in many different parts of the country have supported ARRCC’s work on Faiths 4 Climate Justice, ethical investment, solidarity with First Nations people and challenging new coal and gas projects.


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Inner Peace and Outer Peace

Sister Jayanti with the shovel

Bishop Philip Huggins attends an international multifaith retreat at the Brahma Kumaris Global Retreat Centre, in Nuneham, England. Here, Bishop Huggins recalls several individual actions that contribute to a global response to the climate, human flourishing and interfaith collaboration for the welfare of our home, Earth.

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Prayers and Meditations for our Earth and COP 29

Prayers and Meditations for our Earth and COP 29

The annual Zoom event of Prayers and Meditations for our Earth and for the United Nations Climate Change Conferences have been well supported. You are invited to join our upcoming silent meditation session dedicated to prayers and reflections for our Earth and in support of the UN Climate Conference, COP29. This will begin on Tuesday Mornings at 11:00 commencing on 6th August, 2024 … Australian Eastern Standard Time. The first session and meditation will be led by Bishop Philip Huggins.

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Side event will explore impact of climate change on human rights

Side event will explore impact of climate change on human rights

The World Council of Churches – as a member of the Geneva Interfaith Forum on Climate Change, Environment, and Human Rights, is co-organising a side event at the 56th Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland. Focusing on the intersection of human rights and noneconomic loss and damage in the context of climate change, the event will take place on 1 July from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm at Room XXV, Palais des Nations.

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Australian Religious Response to Climate Change: Conference 2024

Australian Religious Response to Climate Change logo

The Australian Religious Response to Climate Change (ARRCC) warmly invites you to participate in our second national Conference.

The Australian Religious Response to Climate Change has a unique role in Australia in bringing together diverse people of faith as witnesses to both our common humanity and respect for the earth.

Groups and communities in many different parts of the country have supported ARRCC’s work on Faiths 4 Climate Justice, ethical investment, solidarity with First Nations people and challenging new coal and gas projects.

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Caring for Creation: Making the transition to Renewables without so much noise

Caring for Creation: Making the transition to Renewables without so much noiseBishop Philip Huggins writes about the transition to renewables where so many other faith bodies and international organisations are doing so without theatrical grandstanding and rhetoric. It is all noise, whereas the committed take the need of Earth – the only home we have – into their prayer, their meditation, their hearts.

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Going to Church on the Sunday after the Coalition spoke on Nuclear Reactors

Pacem in TerraBishop Philip Huggins – member of the United Nations Interfaith Liaison Committee and Patron of the Australian Religious Response to Climate Change has written a reflection on the Coalition announcement about building seven nuclear power plants, and that which will bring Peace on Earth. It is a journey fractured by much noise and building of division instead of unity.

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Sacred Ecology: An Interfaith Perspective

Patriarch Bartholomew I

Patriarch Bartholomew I, the Archbishop of Constantinople and the spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodox Christians, is in Lisbon this week for a conference on interreligious dialogue.

On Wednesday morning, he delivered a stirring speech to the KAICIID interfaith forum on the “spiritual obligation” to fight against climate change.

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Grow in your Sense of Place + Listen to Wisdom from Elders

Faith Ecology Network logoFaith Ecology Network is an Australian hub for strengthening an interfaith dialgue between science and religion. Faith Ecology Network is an interfaith network of people from various traditions including: Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Ba’hai’, Sikh, Buddhist, Hindu, Brahma Kumari traditions united in growing our care for biodiversity. A hybrid event on ways to care for biodiversity will be delivered on Sunday, 2 June 2024 at Blacktown NSW and online.

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