For six months last year, 17-year-old Nitya Shah packed her swimmers, goggles and towel into a bag, and set off to run swimming lessons for toddlers. Juggling her part-time job around school, the Year 11 student carefully saved about $7,000 in total.
Source: ABC
The community-building activities my family and I participate in every week are a core part of our faith. In Iran, it would see us arrested.
Source: The Guardian
In 1960, when I was seven, my family moved from the Netherlands to Australia, where I attended a Catholic primary school in Noble Park Victoria.
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Melbourne is renowned for its cultural, linguistic and religious diversity. The population reflects a wide spectrum of faiths, including Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism.
Source: Insider Guides
The appointment of the “special envoy” to combat Islamophobia in Australia has sparked a wave of controversy.
Source: ABC
Muslims across Europe are grappling with a “worrying surge” of racism that is being fuelled in part by “dehumanising anti-Muslim rhetoric”, the EU’s leading rights agency has said, as it published a survey in which nearly half of the Muslim respondents said they had recently experienced discrimination.
Source: The Guardian
Fethullah Gulen, proclaimed to be a modern Rumi, who passed away this week, said something similar some time ago as he lived a celibate life.
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
For the second time in less than a year, Pope Francis met with transgender and intersex Catholics on Sunday (Oct. 13) at the Vatican, where he listened to their stories of pain, solitude and redemption.
Source: Religion News
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