This Easter initiative by the World Council of Churches Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (WCC-EAPPI) sets out to connect the Biblical narrative with current realities in Palestine and Israel to spotlight the injustices of life under occupation
Sometimes a fish is just a fish, sometimes itâs a piece of boiled meat
In partnership with St Bart’s, Toowoomba, students from Toowoomba Anglican School narrate and reenact the Easter story, based on Mark’s Gospel, in this special video filmed at the school’s main campus
âAs the Church, we are to be the hands and the feet of Jesus on earth. We are called to reach out and to touch the lives of the untouchables in our society, those who feel excluded from the company of others, and those who are forced to live alone or in poverty,â says The Revâd Canon Linda McWilliam in this Anti-poverty Week homily
âWhile preparing for the hastily organised sanctuary liturgy all those years ago, I vividly remember looking for vigil candles. As I picked up a box of 100 candles in the storage room, I looked at them hoping that enough people would turn up to light them all. Later that day, as more and more people arrived at the vigil, I had to keep bringing additional candles out from storage for people to light. In the end, 1,500 people turned up. I have never been happier to be 500 short of anything in my life,â says The Very Revâd Dr Peter Catt
âIt is one thing to study the Bible when you are 14,000 kilometres away, but it is a completely different â some say life-changing â experience reading it while in the Holy Land,â says The Revâd Daniel Jayaraj as he reflects on modern-day pilgrimage
âMany theologians have come up with various models for how faith develops, but one in particular caught my attention a few years ago. It still manages to be helpful in my day-to-day understanding of faith, the Church, ministry and just about everything,â says Jonathan Sargeant from St Francis College
75 years after the creation of the United Nations, its envoys and supporters say their role is more important than ever in advocating for refugees and people seeking asylum
The Gapâs St Markâs Anglican Church community has been raising funds to help a Christian Pakistani refugee family stuck in Bangkok to find a permanent and safe home â find out more about this refugee family and how you can help
“Since the beginning, Godâs wisdom gave us the Sabbath to let people and the earth rest every seventh day or every 49 years. We have not allowed the land to observe a Sabbath, and the earth is struggling to renew. Nowadays, our living pushes the planet beyond its limits and this has led human beings to a lifestyle that is far from peaceful,” says Dr Louk Andrianos from the World Council of Churches