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Naw-Ruz, also spelled Nowruz as well as other variants, is an ancient Persian holiday celebrating the new year. It is one of only two festivals mentioned by Zoroaster in the Avesta, the  holy Zoroastrian scriptures. It is also celebrated as a holy day by the Baha'i Faith. In addition, other Iranians (Persians) also commonly celebrate it as a secular holiday.

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Source: Thoughtco

Conservative government MPs are still champing at the bit to change Australia's race hate speech laws despite a parliamentary committee's failure to make a recommendation on section 18C.

The joint committee on human rights has made 22 recommendations, tabled in the lower house on Tuesday, to be considered by the federal government.

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Source: Sky News

Faith-based groups across Australia are uniting to call on the Australian Government to participate and support the UN negotiations for a treaty banning nuclear weapons this year.

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Source: International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)

Lent is a time of reflection for many Christians, as they look back on and celebrate the death and resurrection of Christ.

But what is the story of Lent, what do people give up and what is the challenge asking us to do one nice thing each day during this time?

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Source: Metro

More Indigenous Australians are converting to Islam. But it is more than a political gesture. Unknown to many is the long history between Aboriginal people and Islamic culture and religion.

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Source: NITV

Bright and early on Saturday morning, 4 February 2017, almost before the sun was up, over 70 people from various faith communities and neighbouring interfaith networks, members of the police force, community leaders and people working in the area of Family Violence began arriving for the Interfaith Network’s Sixth Annual Interfaith Breakfast held during United Nations World Interfaith Harmony Week 2017. This was held at “The Castle”, Hemmings Park in Dandenong.

Scores of headstones at a Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia have been broken and overturned, in the latest apparent vandalism incident at a Jewish burial ground in the United States.

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Source: Business Insider

Australian imams are being urged to speak out against Islamic State, with the national imams council insisting the extremist group does not follow sharia law.

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Source: SBS