It has just been announced that the ABCs Choir of Hard Knocks has won an ARIA award.
“Who would have thought that in just over a year a group of over 50 homeless Australians would have captured the hearts and minds of people enough to be rewarded with an ARIA,” said the group’s spokesman, Adrian Panozzo.
The latest update of our parish newsletter is now available, featuring regular news of group life, events, children’s ministry, message from the manse and more.
Balkara Parish News, October 2007Â (pdf 221kB)
Dozens of Anglican parishes across central and northern Victoria want to become carbon neutral within five years.
The Bendigo diocese in central Victoria has voted to reduce its net carbon emissions to zero by 2012. Its Bishop, Andrew Curnow, says the church has a moral responsibility to reduce its impact on the environment.
The prime minister of Australia, John Howard is likely two days away from announcing an election date, and after 11 years of strained relations with Aboriginal people, has just announced his desire to make amends. Criticism aimed fairly and squarely at Mr. Howard suggest the public believes this is too little, too late.
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St. Francis of Assissi has given a lasting legacy in many ways. For all those who are animal lovers, a blessing of the animals reminds us of their importance to humanity, and especially the delight of having a pet.
The Lara Uniting Church has continued the tradition of St. Francis with a special service of blessing.
Philanthropist Chuck Feeney wants others on the rich list to follow his example of giving while living.
World travellers might well be familiar with the company Duty Free Shoppers (DFS), but few would have heard of the man who founded the empire and then one day literally gave it all away.
That’s exactly what Irish-American Chuck Feeney did in the 1980s. Read more>>
A book of letters written by Mother Teresa of Calcutta reveals for the first time that she was deeply tormented about her faith and suffered periods of doubt about God.
“Jesus has a very special love for you. As for me, the silence and the emptiness is so great that I look and do not see, listen and do not hear,” she wrote to the Reverend Michael van der Peet in September 1979.
The ethnic Albanian Roman Catholic nun, who dedicated her life to poor, sick and dying in India, died in 1997 aged 87.
Mother Teresa had wanted all her letters destroyed, but the Vatican ordered they be preserved as potential relics of a saint, a spokeswoman for the book’s publishers Doubleday said.
Map-making has always been political, and wars have started over the drawing of a boundary, but climate change has injected a new political element into modern cartography.
It has been four years since the last edition of The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World, and cartographers say they have had to redraw coastlines and reclassify land to reflect significant geographical changes since then.
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MEL Gibson has poured a further $10 million into his controversial sect in the Malibu hills as he oversees the construction of a 400-seat church to expand his flock of followers.
A federal tax filing reveals that the troubled actor-director made the large lump sum donation earlier this year to his Holy Family Catholic Church, which is situated in the secluded Agoura Hills. Read more>>
Leaders from many religious communities across the United States have urged Americans of all faiths and none to join a fast from dawn to dusk on Monday 8 October 2007 to call for an end to the Iraq War. They want to send out a clear message to government and society.
“This war must end!” say the religious leaders in their statement about the interfaith fast. “We must end the shattering of Iraqi and American lives by offering American generosity and support – but not control – for international and nongovernmental efforts to assist Iraqis in making peace and rebuilding their country, while swiftly and safely bringing home all American troops.”