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On Sunday, 16 November 2025, approximately 275 people gathered at the Broadmeadows Town Hall for the 2025 Victorian Interfaith Festival. The event was hosted by the City of Hume and the Hume Interfaith Network, in association with the Faith Communities Council of Victoria.

Among the thousands at the “Rising Tide Protestival” last weekend at the Port of Newcastle were Sisters of Mercy, Christian Ministers, Brothers, Buddhist teachers, Quakers and many other people of faith. They joined people from all walks of life and, for a few hours, successfully stopped coal ships from going into and out of the port. It was a brief but important symbolic victory, showing our collective deep concern for the future of our common home.

The Faith Communities Council of Victoria (FCCV) has issued the following statement:

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A record of 330 attendees sacrificing the comfort of seating to celebrate ZCK’s 23rd Anniversary Celebration with us and be part of the Forces for Good in Victoria!

We were honoured to welcome faith and community leaders from the Buddhist, Baha’i, Christian, Hindu, Islamic, Sikh, and Zoroastrian traditions, and representatives from Interfaith Networks of Casey, Whitehorse, Kingston, Knox, Dandenong, Manningham, and Monash.

We all raised and proudly sang the Australian Anthem together!

A new video series, Aboriginal Spirituality & Culture, featuring Aboriginal theologian Reverend Dr Garry Deverell is available online.

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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

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

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