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.
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 2022 Multifaith Calendar (pdf)
Australian religious leaders gathered at Sydney's Barangaroo to demand an urgent referendum. The faith leaders formally endorsed the Uluru Statement from the Heart, which calls for a "voice" — a representative body that can help shape policy directed at First Nations people — to be enshrined in Australia's constitution.
Source: ABC News
For the first time, fewer than half of Australians identified as Christian, though Christianity remained the nation's most common religion (declared by 43.9 per cent of the population).
Source: ABC
Victorians who intentionally display the Nazi swastika (Hakenkreuz) face penalties of up to nearly $22,000, 12 months in jail, or both.
Source: SBS
Politicians, community and faith leaders from across Victoria have come together at a mosque east of Melbourne to show their support after the prayer hall was allegedly vandalised.
Source: SBS
A library devoted to texts and artefacts from different faiths will be built at the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion, near Bendigo in Central Victoria, which organisers hope will attract scholars and people from around the world.
Source: ABC
The initiative will ensure "our faith-based institutions will have a voice around the table", Minister for Multiculturalism Mark Coure said while making the funding announcement in Sydney.
Source: SBS
The Albanese Labor government is moving to dump the compulsory religious element of the national school chaplaincy program.
Source: news.com.au
Fatima Payman has won Western Australia's sixth and final Senate seat, becoming the first Afghan-Australian and the first hijab-wearing Muslim woman in parliament. A former refugee from Afghanistan, Ms Payman's victory comes on World Refugee Day.
Source: SBS
About 15,000 people are converging on a regional Australian town for one of the country's most popular Sikh sporting events, but with food a central ingredient to the cultural event, a mammoth effort is underway to feed everybody … for free.
Source: ABC
The book ‘Reflective Being, Being Reflective', 25 years of multi-faith disability and spirituality perspectives in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand’, was recently launched.
Source: FCCV
Christianity has declined in recent decades, but Australians are not completely closed off to faith, with young adults being the most open of all age groups, a new study has found.
Source: Christianity Today