REGIONAL MEL SESSION – THAILAND: INTERFAITH PEACEBUILDING CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN CLOSING CIVIC SPACES

This  workshop will organize around one overarching question: How might we better harness the influence of religious actors and safeguard their work to achieve broader peacebuilding and human rights objectives? We will explore two specific aspects of this issue through the stories of peacebuilding practitioners, and then ask participants to dialogue around their own experiences and brainstorm solutions. Date and…

#ChangeTheHeart

Dear Friends You are invited by one of Australia’s most senior Aboriginal Christian Leaders, Aunty Jean Phillips, to gather together to pray in unison on the evening before January 26. During a moment of national significance, answer the call to prayer to #ChangeTheHeart of this nation. While there are mixed feelings across the country around January 26, we as Christians…

ADVANCING NON VIOLENCE AND JUST PEACE IN THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD

I  am so pleased to share with you an invitation for an upcoming event, prepared by our colleagues and partners in the Philippines for our members and partners throughout Asia-Pacific. We warmly invite you to an online event celebrating Advancing Nonviolence and Just Peace in Church and the World, a book from Pax Christi International's Catholic Nonviolence Initiative celebrating, reflecting on,…

CONVERSATIONS THAT MATTER LAUNCH

An earnest plea to friends, supporters, and all who strive for a better world Friends, I am asking for your help. Conversation at the Crossroads is about to launch its most ambitious project to date Conversations that Matter. It's all happening this Wednesday 24 November - flyer attached. These last two years we've staged a good many events, some small, some large. We've covered…

A Day of Prayer for Myanmar

National Day of Prayer for Myanmar Advent Sunday 28 November 2021 Peace and New Hope for Myanmar This is an invitation to pray during your Advent Sunday worship, for peace and justice with the people of Myanmar and to be part of an Australia wide prayer offering. Suffering and trauma have accompanied the people of Myanmar for decades. A level…

Traditional Owner’s Town Hall

Origin Energy's Annual General Meeting is less than two weeks away, and Traditional Owners from across the Northern Territory are doing everything they can to make the most of it. For the first time ever, Traditional Owners lodged powerful shareholder resolutions, calling on Origin's major investors to protect water, country and sacred sites. Those same investors have told us they're listening, and…

School Strike 4 Climate Australia

https://youtu.be/oRRf4rhAJrk?list=TLGGsihVFOQy0OoxMTEwMjAyMQ School Strike 4 Climate Australia pays our respects to the countless Traditional Custodians who have cared for this land for tens of thousands of years. ​We acknowledge that we meet, organise and strike on stolen Country, and that sovereignty has never been ceded. First Nations peoples are disproportionately on the frontlines of the climate crisis, and therefore must be…