Victoria Police hosted its 12th Chief Commissioner’s Iftar dinner on Tuesday night to commemorate Ramadan together with representatives and leaders from Victoria’s Muslim and faith communities.
More than two hundred and eighty people attended the event, including more than 100 women of Muslim faith, 80 police officers and employees, and Muslim and faith communities from across the state.
The High Court has rejected an appeal against the Bendigo mosque, giving final approval to the project.
All legal avenues have now been exhausted, the Bendigo Advertiser reports
The mosque has already passed the City of Greater Bendigo, Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal and the Victoria Court of Appeal.
Source: The Age
To the friends, families, and neighbors of the victims in Orlando: We, the global community of the Parliament of the World’s Religions, are with you.
We are - without qualification - with you. We grieve with you. We feel anger with you. We love you. Our prayers are with you.
Source: Parliament of World Religions
Muslim farmers in a village in near the city of Gojra in Pakistan's Punjab province are putting their savings together and helping build a church for the Christians in their neighbourhood.
How does such tolerance and harmony exist in a place known for religious violence?
Source: BBC
As part of the 'Exclusion and Embrace: Disability, Justice and Spirituality' conference, being held on 21-23 August in Melbourne, an opportunity exists for artists from across the faith spectrum to submit pieces that depict experiences of exclusion and/or embrace, as experienced from the perspective of a person with a disability, a parent or a carer.
We invite you to represent your personal experience of disability and how you reflect on that experience through your spirituality or faith. This Conference will draw on the wisdom of all faiths, and will deepen the understanding of the many aspects of disability and spirituality.
An exemption to a long-standing tradition in Switzerland has prompted education authorities to hand down a controversial ruling for Muslim students.
Swiss authorities have ruled that Muslim students must shake the hands of teachers at the start and end of lessons, or their parents could face fines of up to $7,000.
Handshakes between students and teachers are a deeply entrenched tradition in Switzerland, signifying respect. But last month a school in the town of Therwil agreed to allow two teenage Muslim boys an exemption.
Source: SBS
Greens senator Robert Simms wants to remove religious exemptions from the Sex Discrimination Act. He says the provisions in the law allow for religious organisations to discriminate against staff or clients who are from sexual minorities.
His opponents say these are protections for religious groups to act in accordance with their conscience, something that’s recognized in the United Nations Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
To debate the question, we talked to Senator Simms and Terry Tobin, a leading Queens Counsel and former chancellor of Notre Dame University. Why does Robert Simms want to change the law?
Source: ABC
We are at a critical point in human history; global warming is seriously beginning to bite. At the same time, we are witnessing market shifts towards low carbon technologies and an explosion of civil society activity aimed at saving the climate.
In increasingly large numbers, people of faith are joining the effort and are calling on our political representatives to change the direction our country is headed. The unseasonably warm weather is a regular topic of conversation, for good reason.
Source: ABC
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