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The Faith Communities Council of Victoria (FCCV) has issued the following statement:

A Faithful Response to Suicide: Compassion, Connection and Hope (19/06/2025)

A record of 330 attendees sacrificing the comfort of seating to celebrate ZCK’s 23rd Anniversary Celebration with us and be part of the Forces for Good in Victoria!

We were honoured to welcome faith and community leaders from the Buddhist, Baha’i, Christian, Hindu, Islamic, Sikh, and Zoroastrian traditions, and representatives from Interfaith Networks of Casey, Whitehorse, Kingston, Knox, Dandenong, Manningham, and Monash.

We all raised and proudly sang the Australian Anthem together!

Melbourne-based volunteers travelled nearly 1,200 km to rural town in New South Wales to set up their mobile kitchen in parking area of hardware store.

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Source: Tribune India

In the two weeks following the 2025 federal election, the four of us — a Hazara lawyer, a Jewish pianist and writer, a Hazara human rights advocate, and a Jewish journalist — found ourselves talking. We were from different backgrounds, shaped by different histories, yet each of us felt something similar stir as Australia quietly rejected the politics of hate.

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Source: ABC

God Forbid explores how burial traditions across faiths are shaped by theology, ecology, and culture. And how those traditions are being challenged by modern pressures like urbanisation and climate change.

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Source: ABC God Forbid podcast

A new video series, Aboriginal Spirituality & Culture, featuring Aboriginal theologian Reverend Dr Garry Deverell is available online.

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I recently returned from a research trip to Lahore, Pakistan. Despite having visited the city several times before, every time I step out of Allama Iqbal International Airport, I’m still taken aback by the crowds waiting to receive their loved ones with bouquets, wide smiles and warm hugs in the arrivals section.

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Source: ABC

Pope Leo XIV used his first address as pontiff, spoken from the balcony of St Peter's Basilica on May 8, to call for "a peace that is unarmed and disarming".

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Source: ABC