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Among the world’s present-day religions, Zoroastrianism, founded more than 3,000 years ago, is one of the most ancient and historically influential.

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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.

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Source: ABC

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.

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Source: SBS

The Albanese Labor government is moving to dump the compulsory religious element of the national school chaplaincy program.

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Source: news.com.au

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.

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Source: SBS

Victorians who intentionally display the Nazi swastika (Hakenkreuz) face penalties of up to nearly $22,000, 12 months in jail, or both.

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Source: SBS

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).

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Source: ABC

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.

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Source: ABC