Faith Communities Council of Victoria: Promoting a Harmonious Victoria

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Welcome to FCCV

Established in 2010, the Faith Communities Council of Victoria (FCCV) is Victoria’s umbrella multifaith body. It is the successor to the Leaders of Faith Communities Forum, founded in 1995.

FCCV was created to contribute to the harmony of the Victorian community by promoting positive relations between people of different faiths and greater public knowledge and mutual understanding of the teachings, customs and practices of Victoria's diverse faith traditions.

2022-23 Multifaith Calendar

logomfcalendar The following are major holy days and festivals for Baha'i, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism and Sikhism. Whilst this list is not exhaustive it is comprehensive to represent each of the religions in good faith.

Click here to view 2023 Multifaith Calendar (pdf)

Click here to view 2022 Multifaith Calendar (pdf)

Violence against women and family violence in faith settings

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Faith and faith-based communities play an integral role in many people’s lives. Faith leaders provide a source of social, moral and ethical guidance and support for their community
members, and may provide invaluable support to women experiencing violence and their families. Faith settings are also an important environment where social networks and
social norms are formed. Such networks and norms have the potential to protect against violence against women and family violence and foster relationships based on equality and respect. However, faith leaders and faith-based communities may also promote norms and relationships that drive or condone the use of violence. Faith settings are therefore an important context in which we can target activities to prevent violence against women and family violence.

Australia's Anglican Church splits over same-sex marriage, conservatives form new diocese

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Australia's Anglican Church has split, with a conservative group of bishops opposed to same-sex marriage forming a breakaway diocese.

Source: ABC

Forget about your worries or dying

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As Christianity rapidly declines, these religions are growing faster than ever.

Source: ABC

Prayers and Meditation for COP27

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We encourage people of all faiths to offer their prayers and meditations towards a beneficial UNCOP 27. Our silent prayer and meditation around the world helped the outcome of the Glasgow COP26 through collaboration and inclusion.

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Statement from Faith Communities to Nuclear Weapons Conference

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On 5 August the Faith Communities Concerned about Nuclear Weapons, a group of faith-based organisations and individuals committed to a nuclear-weapon-free world, issued a joint interfaith statement to the conference.

Source: Independent Catholic News

Remembering Dr Helen Light AM

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Helen Light: Inaugural Director of the Jewish Museum of Australia brought warmth and compassion into the Museum spaces.

Source: Jewish Museum

The rebel women defying a powerful all-male clergy to become Buddhist monks

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Under towering palms and frangipani trees on her farm in rural Thailand, Achara Ratanakasin hacks away at the tangled undergrowth with swift machete strokes.

Source: ABC