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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

A renewed fight over religious freedoms awaits the re-elected Labor government as faith groups and LGBTQ advocates push Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to resolve the thorny issue after he abandoned it last year to avoid culture wars.

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Source: Sydney Morning Herald

At an eye-catching construction site in Melbourne's south-east, ornately carved marble blocks, like the ones used in the Taj Mahal, are being assembled "like a jigsaw puzzle".

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Source: ABC

More passengers and airport visitors dying or struggling with medical conditions means Melbourne Airport’s small chaplaincy team has been busier since the COVID pandemic.

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Source: Melbourne Anglican

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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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

A fresh approach to climate discourse—one that transcends purely technical considerations by integrating moral and spiritual principles—came to the fore at a recent Youth Interfaith Summit in London, encouraging a sense of collective responsibility that spans generations.

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Source: Baha'i News