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• Preventing and Responding to Family Violence: A Faith Leader’s Practice Guide and Toolkit
• Australia’s First Refugees – The Lutherans, 1830’s
• Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
• William Cooper’s dreams of Indigenous representation in Parliament inch closer
• International Essay Contest for Young People
• Community Cultural Conversations
• Great Stupa of Universal Compassion near Bendigo to host interfaith library of religious texts
• National Reconciliation Week 2022
• Being spiritual in Australia: Complexity, contemplation and controversy
• Climate Change Plan launched at Broken Creek, Nathalia
• Climate Change and Mental Health Event
• Get a Life! ~ What you can (and cannot) do to help your child get back into life post-COVID
• Noosa Temple of Satan education challenge dismissed by judge as ‘jumble of confected nonsense’
• Understanding Tonglen: The practice of giving and receiving
• What’s happening in our brains when we meditate?
• Be kind to your mother-in-law, the victim of ‘cliches’, urges Pope
• A Brief History of Holocaust Denial and Distortion
• Sydney to get a war memorial honouring efforts of Sikh soldiers in Australia’s military history
• Saving Notre Dame chronicles effort to rebuild France’s famous cathedral
• Peace and Alternatives to War
• Interfaith Survey: Covenants of the Prophet of Islam
• When is the Anzac Day public holiday this year and will people be standing in their driveways again?
• Spirituality & Diversity Discussions – a reflective practice initiative for mental health sector workers
• First come floods, then domestic violence. We need to prepare for the next inevitable crisis
• Vaccination and Booster Shots during Ramadan 2022
• Shepparton: Positive Ageing Advisory Committee
• Protect our planet with your finances (Gas and Electricity)
• Fossil fuels were always dangerous. Now they’re fueling war on my doorstep.
• MCG opens a new Multi-Faith Prayer Room
• The importance and usefulness of Christian meditation practice now
• Patriarch of Moscow responds to the World Council of Churches
• Community Safety Forum
• Racism: Understanding your rights and taking action
• International Women’s Day 2022: “Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow”
• International Women’s Day: Liberating religion from Australia to West Papua
• Department of Rural Health –
• I went to a Ukrainian Catholic Church to pray a rosary for peace. I didn’t expect to find Muslims there in solidarity.
• St Brendan’s Catholic Church hosting World Day of Prayer
• Father Rod Bower leaves Gosford
• International Women’s Day – an evening with Jane Caro
• World Day of Social Justice 2022
• Crisis responder rabbis
• Let’s talk about languishing
• Film Review: Breaking Bread
• 14th Shepparton Apology Breakfast
• Sister Janet Mead, who turned The Lord’s Prayer into a rock hit, dies aged 84
• International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust
• Shepparton Uniting Church minister anxious to return to Tonga after eruption.
• Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen Master, Dies at 95
• Living the Change – Global Call
• 26 January ~ Australia Day
• Multifaith Leaders urge immediate release of refugees and asylum seekers still in detention – including those in the Park Hotel
• Tasmanian Way to St James pilgrim walk attracts global audience as virtual event
• Walking the Camino ~ After the Pandemic
• How a Vietnam War veteran became a Zen Buddhist monk
• Violence against women insults God, Pope says in New Year’s message
• Care for Environment – Daoism
• Anti-apartheid hero Archbishop Desmond Tutu dies aged 90
• Pope Francis calls for ‘dialogue’ to heal a divided world
• Christmas Messages from Church Leaders
• Pope Francis at Christmas: Look beyond the lights and remember the poor
• Respect Victoria
• Stress at Christmas?
• International Migrants Day
• Carols by Candlelight in the Queens Gardens will be moved to Riverlinks Eastbank.
• History of coffee linked to Islam
• Human Rights Day 2021
• 2021 Carols by Candlelight
• Language of flowers in Islam and Ottomans
• The science and clinical application of mindfulness and meditation
• Mission Australia: The three most important issues facing young people today in 2021
• Islamic Religiosity and Mental Wellbeing Research Project
• Care for Environment – Confucianism
• Human Rights Week 2021
• Documentary chronicles historic religious fraternity in United Arab Emirates
• In focus: 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence
• Peacebuilding Perspective: Conversation Series with Helen Bishop
• 2021 Walk Against Family Violence – Goulburn
• What works to address violence against women and family violence within faith settings: An evidence guide
• International Day of Islamic Art
• Launch of the Laudato Si’ Action Platform
• National Anti-Racism Framework
• Anti-Racism Multicultural Family Concert
• The Power of First Nations Women’s Voices
• Global Day for Climate Action
• Diwali returns in India as COVID situation eases
• Prayers and Meditation for a Beneficial Climate Change Conference
• Pope Francis explains the Interfaith Declaration on Climate Change
• International Freedom of Religion and Belief Day
• Prayers and Meditation for a Beneficial COP 26
• Respecting Diversity In The Coronial Process
• Grand Imam Al-Tayeb: “Fratelli tutti” important for Muslims too
• Lecture: Embracing Cultural Diversity in Australia
• Picnic 4 Peace – Lighting a Candle for Afghanistan
• Slavery in our suburbs: The matrix of marriage, migration and abuse
• Online Forum Tonight: 4 October
• Benalla: St Joseph’s Church damaged in earthquake
• Gandhi’s Birthday Reflections
• Tigers Launch Jolson/Houli Interfaith Through Sport Program
• To Build a More Peaceful, Equitable, and Sustainable World, Interfaith Dialogue is Fundamental
• John Lennon, stamps inspiring message of peace, on UN’s big week
• Glasgow Multifaith Declaration on Climate Change
• United Nations Day of Peace Event
• World Peace Day: Lighting a Candle for Afghanistan
• 2021 Dungala Kaiela Oration
• Trafficking in humans
• 2021 Abraham Conference to highlight the role of women in the Abrahamic traditions
• Joint statement on climate change by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch
• September 7: World Clean Air Day
• Align your finances with your faith – Superannuation Divestment Workshop
• Shepparton’s Sikh community bands together to serve free meals and grocery kits as COVID cluster grows
• Thinking out loud
• Standing with the Afghan People, Refugees, And Those Who Remain
• Community Information Session – TONIGHT – 27 August
• Explainer: what is shariah law and what version of it is the Taliban likely to implement?
• Sacred sapling from Buddhist bodhi tree in Australian quarantine ahead of Bendigo planting
• Multicultural Film Festival
• Food Delivery Help Needed; Volunteers Sought
• Getting Covid jab is an ‘act of love’, says Pope Francis
• Regional Victorian Afghan community makes heartbreaking calls back home
• On Moral Injury
• Aged Care Employee Day
• Upstanding citizens – Having the Courage to Care
• Tibet and China clash over next reincarnation of the Dalai Lama
• Tokyo Olympics: The medal winners’ flowers that pay tribute to 2011 disaster
• Care for Environment: Hinduism
• Social Housing Regulation Review
• Sanctuary for those in need
• GV Health COVID-19 vaccine update
• The Compassionate Companions Project
• Prayer and Reflection Exhibition: Shepparton and Euroa
• Dealing with loss in the family: How meditation can help
• Thank a First Responder Day
• Elder Abuse: Everyone’s business
• Contemplative Studies Centre
• Six steps to get yourself through Victoria’s fourth lockdown
• Vesak 2021 – Message from the Prime Minister
• World Council of Churches: Statement on Israel and Palestine
• Helping India from Australia
• Meditate in May
• History of Yoga Films
• What do the 5 great religions say about the existence of the soul?
• Mind and Life: Science and Wisdom of Emotions Summit
• Fatwa on taking the COVID-19 vaccination and test while fasting in the month of Ramadan
• Ramadan 2021 – Message from the Prime Minister
• Ugadi: The Hindu New Year
• Ramadan 2021
• The Aussie Camino
• 8th Parliament of the World’s Religions, 2021
• Indigenous Voice Consultations – Shepparton
• Passover Video
• Palm Sunday: Justice for Refugees
• High Commissioner’s Message on the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
• What do near-death experiences mean, and why do they fascinate us?
• Racism: Understanding Your Rights and Taking Action
• Are you bogged mate? – Men’s BBQ and Ladies Picnic Lunch
• Why Pope Francis’s historic trip to Iraq was a mission of peace over politics
• #WhenWillSheBeRight
• 31 Days of Prayer for Incarcerated Women
• Pope Francis visits war-ravaged northern Iraq, inspects churches damaged by Islamic State
• One by One: A Prayer as the COVID-19 Death Toll Mounts
• L’Arche Shepparton – Activity Day
• International Women’s Day: Pray for Women around the World
• Impacts of COVID-19 in our region – Local research findings from the Department of Rural Health
• Australian Values
• The International Day of Human Fraternity: A Pathway to the Future
• Care for the Environment – Indigenous Traditions
• Researchers Name Top 10 Insights from Climate Science in 2020
• In Hiroshima and Nagasaki, religious leaders urge “concentric circles of peace”
• International Holocaust Remembrance Day
• The Faravahar: The Ancient Zoroastrian Symbol of Iran
• Volunteering: Resilience, Relief and Recovery
• Treaty Ban on Nuclear Weapons
• Sikh volunteer group recognised as ‘Australian Human Rights Heroes 2020’
• International Effort Underway to Establish Tolkien Center Author’s Famed House
• Orthodox Christmas – Celebrate Safely Message
• The New Year: Make Every Moment Divine
• UN declares 4 February ‘International Day of Human Fraternity’
• Carols by Candlelight returns with virtual performance
• Indigenous artwork on V/Line train aims to educate Victorians about diversity of Aboriginal nations
• Spirit Harmony Multicultural Festival Australia
• What Happens When Summer Heatwaves Strike?
• Online prayer service on World AIDS Day
• The Dalai Lama on Surviving the Climate Crisis Together
• faithSAFE
• Overview: Faith Communities Supporting Healthy Family Relationships
• Halima Aden and shaping one’s own hijab journey
• River Above Asia Virtual Launch
• Climate Change and the Strategy for our Local Resources:
• The Long View on COVID-19 – Prof. Brett Sutton
• NAIDOC Week: Australia Post Agrees to Include First Nations Place Names in Australian Postal Addresses
• NAIDOC Week Event ‘Cultural Burning’ Webinar
• Land, water and fire: the science of a continuous culture
• Virtual NAIDOC Week 2020
• French Catholics and Radical Islamists
• Faith Communities Supporting Healthy Family Relationships
• Faith Communities in Pandemic Times
• Abraham Conference 2020
• How community leaders in Melbourne’s north helped drive down coronavirus outbreaks
• Baskets of Joy – for the City of Greater Shepparton 2020
• Pope Joins Interfaith Clergy To Pray For Peace And End To Coronavirus Pandemic
• The Church of QAnon: Will conspiracy theories form the basis of a new religious movement?
• Three Sides of the Coin
• Update Regarding COVID-19 Outbreak in Shepparton: Thursday Morning
• Residents urged to be tested, even if no symptoms
• 24-hour helpline for migrant women experiencing domestic and family violence in Australia
• Three charged following alleged forced marriage in Shepparton
• Thich Nhat Hanh’s health reported “stable”
• From the Big Smoke to the Bush: Stories of Migrant Refugee resettlement in regional Australia
• Youth: The Sydney Statement
• Dalai Lama: Global Vision Summit
• Nepal: The revered living goddess is not leaving her temple this year
• Bendigo Health joins Spiritual Health Association
• Mental Health and Farmers
• Shepparton: Buddhist Meditation, September 2020
• UN International Day of Peace
• Citizenship Test to Change
• COVID and the climate challenge in Oceania
• Faith Victoria: A Message of Hope
• What are the lessons from COVID-19 and how can we use them to build a better future?
• Supporting Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
• #religion: social media influencers of faith
• Racism information sessions: Understanding your rights and taking action
• Light in the Darkness ~ Time Out for a Suffering World
• Third Nelson Mandela Youth Leadership Summit
• Earth Overshoot Day for 2020
• Religion and ceremony: Regional Victoria stage 3
• Government assistance for temporary and provisional visa holders – coronavirus (COVID-19)
• Kindness and Love in a Time of Separation – Perspectives from the Three Abrahamic Faiths
• Chief Health Officer gives Eid-al-Adha greetings
• Call for National Day of Prayer – 2nd August
• Prime Minister’s Message for Eid-al-Adha
• Climate Pastoral Care Conference – 2020
• Mental Wellbeing During Uncertainty
• New Human Rights Website for Victoria
• Line of Remembrance – Indigenous Deaths in Custody
• Multicultural Commission Condemns Racism
• Advice on Wearing a Mask
• Silent reminder of Indigenous deaths in custody
• Statement from Victoria Police
• Lockdown and Mental Health: Meditation and The Sanctuary Experience
• Covid-19 Racism is not acceptable
• Seminar: Forgiveness and Optimism
• Australia Together: National Community Recovery Summit
• Southeastern Australia Turns Green
• World Unity Week
• Vatican: Climate change efforts go forward even without US
• The Buddhist Pureland and Living Under Curfew
• World Environment Day
• Looking after your mental health during coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic
• Buddhism in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter
• Tamandeep Singh live-streams Sikh services to thousands from his Shepparton home
• Pope begs world leaders to provide coronavirus relief
• International student who received help from Melbourne Sikh temple says it ‘changed my life’
• Covid -19 Public Webinar Series
• Message of Grand Mufti of Australia on occasion of Eid-al-Fitr
• eFriend peer service, for those who are feeling anxious, lonely, isolate or distressed
• In African communities, ‘there is no COVID-19 for a particular religion’
• Nationwide Multi Faith Service for the Climate
• eVesak – Vesak Celebrations Online
• Googling Prayer during Covid-19
• Shepparton: Essential COVID-19 information and resources
• ANZAC Day in time of pandemic
• Dalai Lama on Earth Day: COVID-19 is ‘a lesson in universal responsibility’
• Six Daily Questions to Ask Yourself in Quarantine
• Safeguarding children during COVID-19
• An Interfaith Earth Day message
• ‘Prayer Is Not Enough.’ The Dalai Lama on Why We Need to Fight Coronavirus With Compassion
• 10 Tips for a Mindful Home
• Red Cross Help for migrants in transition
• Updated – Translated resources – coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
• Approaches to worship, life and death during stay at home lockdown
• Amma – Mata Amritanandamayi – speaks on Coronavirus
• “In the Beginning was the Word”: Why Covid-19 Renders Words even more Powerful
• A Special Message from the Dalai Lama
• Faith and Multifaith in Shepparton in times of Covid-19
• Covid 19 arrangements – City of Greater Shepparton
• Empty spaces amid coronavirus
• Christian leaders pray for end to pandemic
• Shepparton: Local churches make changes to services due to coronavirus
• Hinduism: COVID 19 and the Herd Instinct
• Call to Prayer
• Cancelled: Shepparton: The Unbreakable Farmer
• Shepparton: The Unbreakable Farmer
• Church leaders call for accurate information as well as prayers to overcome coronavirus
• From smiling at strangers to feeding those in need: What different faiths say about kindness
• Melbourne: Multifaith gathering to acknowledge Victoria’s bushfire crisis
• 2020: Chinese New Year
• Bushfires: The Dalai Lama extends Condolences to Australia
• Looking at New Forms of Burial
• Global Silent Minute
• Community Trauma Toolkit
• Interfaith Declaration on Climate Change for COP 25 Madrid, 2019
• Australia: 2019 Human Rights Day Oration
• 2019 Carols By Candlelight
• Scanlon report: Taking Australia’s temperature on migration attitudes
• World Premiere “Kristallnacht Cantata – A Voice Of Courage”
• Shepparton: Gender Rights and Related Issues
• History of Remembrance Day
• ‘Sustainability Book’ offers Christian perspective on the UN Sustainable Development Goals
• Wangaratta: The Unbreakable Farmer
• An emoji for forgiveness? It’s on the way …
• Bendigo: Bicentenary of The Bab (Baha’i)
• Respect and Resilience: creating community cohesion and reducing violence
• Kyabram: Mindfulness-based Stillness Meditation
• ABC Radio: Don’t call it a cult
• UN International Day of Peace
• Creating inclusive multi-faith workplaces
• Jewish Care: Family violence awareness campaign
• Faith Based Urban Thinkers Campus
• What Can We Learn from an Android Buddhist Preacher?
• Season of Creation
• Golden Rule Day
• New survey reveals which religions New Zealanders trust most – and least – after Christchurch shootings
• Laughing Matters: Laughter Yoga
• My New Neighbour: a way to bring refugees safely to Australia
• Homelessness ‘duty to assist’ law could force government to help those in crisis
• Bendigo mosque construction begins as Premier Daniel Andrews turns first sod
• The Bridge Youth Service: Screening Life after the Oasis
• UN International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief
• Back Your neighbour
• The Israel Folau crowdfunding saga is not about freedom of religion
• Top 10 books about cults
• Pope Francis declares ‘climate emergency’ and urges action
• 31 Days of Prayer for Women’s Empowerment
• Voluntary Assisted Dying Model of Care
• SAM: facing death creatively
• Metta for Refugees
• 2018 National Police Remembrance Day, Shepparton
• Picnic 4 Peace 2018
• Raga Shamabala – Westside
• #YouCanTalk
• Inquiry into Replacing Parliamentary Prayer
• End of Life Care: “Unspoken: What will become of me?”
• Refugee Week: Benefits of Migrants and Refugees
• William Cooper Memorial Statue Launch
• Harmony Day – Unity in Diversity
• Shepparton: Screening of Freedom Stories
• SBS: Muslims Like Us
• Albury-Wodonga: Mapping Social Cohesion with Prof. Andrew Markus
• Getting religion (close to) right on YouTube
• Religious Short Film Prize
• Faith-based approach to tackling domestic violence recommended at Adelaide symposium
• Baha’i Celebrations
• Picnic 4 Peace 2017 – Shepparton
• The psychology of radicalisation: Lego Islam
• Robots Enter Religion to Perform Buddhist Funeral Rites
• Dying to Know Day
• Light Festival at Bendigo Stupa
• Kialla: World Labyrinth Day
• Ecumenical Patriarch: Islam is not terrorism
• Albury: Spiritual Care – Everyone’s Business
• Cruise 4 Hope
• Clinical Pastoral Education, Shepparton, July – November 2017
• Birth Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda
• Vatican: Tolerance can’t be set against Religious Freedom
• Shepparton, Australia: UN World Day of Tolerance 2016
• VALID Statement on Spirituality and Disabled Persons
• Advance Care Planning Talk
• Mooroopna: Labyrinth Opening
• Asylum Seeker Workshop, Shepparton
• Labyrinths and the Labyrinth at Picnic for Peace – Shepparton
• 2016 Picnic for Peace, Shepparton
• ‘Spiritual but not religious’: What the census won’t say about Australians’ beliefs
• Interfaith Statement on Church Attack in France
• Out of the Blue ~ Mooroopna and Numurkah
• The Parable of the Good Muslim: Feeling Safe in Australia
• Radio National: Is religious violence a scrap in backyard compared to secular violence?
• Update: Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry into End of Life Choices
• The Dalai Lama and Lady Gaga
• Pope Benedict XVI Makes Rare Public Appearance With Pope Francis
• World Council of Churches – World Refugee Day
• End of Life Choices Inquiry
• Sacred Earth, 2016
• Refugee Week: Australia’s Migration and Australia’s welcome
• Refugee Week Movie: Desert Flower
• INTERVIEW: Humans Become God? Yes, It’s Catholic Theology
• Australian – Indian History Exhibition at Sikh Temple
• Christian-Muslim Dialogue Group Offers 8 Joint Proposals
• Creating a religiously harmonious society in Australia: issues and challenges
• Symposium: Religion and Young People Today – Diverse Beliefs in Turbulent Times
• Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) – Wangaratta
• Sign the Interfaith Statement on Climate Change
• Faith at the End of Life
• Vatican Cookbook offers 60 Recipes
• Bendigo mosque given all clear
• 2015 White Ribbon March and Breakfast, Shepparton
• Where there are Muslims, there is much disdain for ISIS
• UN World Day of Tolerance, Shepparton
• Australia’s Changing Attitudes To Immigration
• Muslim Radicalisation: Where Does the Responsibility Rest?
• Lucky country needs all faiths standing up
• The Hope Prize – Short Story competition
• Booing the messenger: Goodes is gone, but the confronting truth remains
• National Police Remembrance Day, Shepparton
• Statement on Syrian and Iraqi Humanitarian Crisis
• R U OK?
• Screening: Mary Meets Mohammad
• Climate Change – Euroa and the road to Paris
• Love and Marriage in Kabul
• Victoria examines Islam and the Media
• Lit Up in Purple for Elder Abuse Day
• Dalai Lama in Australia
• BumbleBee Foundation and Nepal Aid
• Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) – Shepparton
• Buddhist talk at Riverside Plaza
• Vesak Celebrations at Queens Park, Shepparton
• Seva Is More Than Service
• BAZm e Hazaragi
• Maitreya Loving Kindness Tour
• International Women’s Day – Conversations with Women
• Social Justice and “A Fair Go”
• FECCA Community Consultations
• Harmony Day at GV Health
• Multicultural Youth Forum
• Voices for Harmony Shepparton celebrating UN World Day of Social Justice
• The Gift of Love – Interfaith Anthem
• Bendigo: Multi-faith dinner and forum
• Am I Charlie?
• Taize Young Adult Pilgrimage
• Attacks on Charlie Hebdo Offices in Paris
• The Sunni – Shia Divide
• Walk and Candlelight Vigil, Shepparton
• Carols by Candlelight
• Christmas for Those Alone
• Tolerance Day at Kidstown
• African Community House opened
• For Tibet with Love (at Kialla)
• UN Day of Tolerance
• Statement Promoting Harmony
• Crisis and Ambiguity
• An Evening looking at Pilgrimages
• Mooroopna – Talk by Buddhist Nun
• Racism Initiative extends to Shepparton
• Bendigo Eid Dinner well attended
• Shepparton’s new Houses of Worship – Community Centres
• Interfaith Summit on Climate Change – New Website
• Restoration of the Caliphate is not religious activity
• Cobram imam: Islamic State is not our Islam
• Submission to Joint Select Committee on Constitutional Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
• Respecting Difference Forum
• Reflections on All-Faith Musical Festival
• Ramadan Greetings to Islamic Communities
• Bendigo mosque: Council approves construction
• World Elder Abuse Awareness
• Multi Faith Prayer and Contemplation Room
• Anzac Day, 2014
• Shepparton responds to Racial Discrimination Act Proposal
• Bank Orders Anti-Mosque Group to close account
• Support for Ballarat Mosque
• Bendigo Muslim speaks: Islam: A place of truth
• Pray and Prosper: A Mosque for Bendigo
• Good Samaritan Primary School and Refugees
• Dignity, Australian Trees, The Interfaith Tree
• Muslim Charities Respond to NSW Bushfires
• Understanding Yom Kippur from Mildura
• Multifaith Statement on Asylum Seekers
• Buddhist-Muslim Iftar
• Indigenous Spirituality Talk
• Ramadan Greetings

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