The Multicultural Festivals and Events (MFE) program funds multicultural and multifaith community groups to hold cultural festivals and events for their local communities.
Source: Victorian Multicultural Commission
The lack of women in leadership roles is a point of contention for many theologians — not just for equity reasons.
Source: ABC
At times of challenge and crisis, people often turn to deeper questions of meaning and some draw on spiritual reserves and resources.
Source: National Church Life Survey
A group of Sikh doctors has petitioned the federal and New South Wales governments to make powered air-purifying respirators or PAPR freely available for bearded healthcare workers who work in hospital emergency departments.
Source: SBS
Islamic banking has been a growing feature of international finance for many years and now efforts are underway to introduce it in Australia.
Source: ABC
Few, if any, vice presidential candidates have had as much exposure to the world’s religions as Kamala Harris, the 55-year-old senator from California whom Joe Biden just picked as his running mate.
Source: Religion News
The offering of food and material goods to monks is an essential part of the daily practice of Buddhism in Thailand. The belief is that through the act of giving, lay Buddhists receive, or make, merit.
Source: Religion News
There is a theory that despite all the commotion, religious freedom faces no significant threat in Western democracies like Australia. Therefore, the argument goes, we do not need a federal Religious Discrimination Act.
Source: The Conversation