Reflections
“Who is Socrates among us today? Who is corrupting the youth by teaching them to hold the world in common against the efficiencies of the city? She’s not in the university, but in another of capitalism’s public squares, YouTube, and her name is Ms Rachel,” says Dr Peter Kline from St Francis College
International
World Council of Churches general secretary The Rev’d Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay celebrated with families to whom loved ones have been restored in an initial exchanges of hostages and prisoners in Gaza: “We pray that all the remaining hostages and all those unjustly detained will soon be released,” he said
“I sought God’s blessing and dealt with the ‘What if?’ scenarios through prayer. I knew that I needed to accept that death was very possible in Gaza. I wrote my will, cleaned my rented unit and gave a friend my car keys before I left — just in case. Because I wasn’t scared of death, I think I was more effective and focussed on my work in Gaza,” says British-Australian emergency medicine physician Mohammed Mustafa
“Because Israel is blocking medicines and medical supplies from entering Gaza, surgeons are performing amputations on children and caesareans on women without any anaesthetics or pain killers. Because Israel is blocking medicines and medical supplies from entering Gaza, Palestinian people are dying from treatable illnesses, both chronic and acute…As a pharmacist and as a Christian, I say not in my name,” said ACSQ Justice Unit Coordinator and pharmacist Peter Branjerdporn at a recent healthcare workers vigil
Five young Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Tamil Hindu community members reflect on the prayer spaces, holy text readings and prayers that they led at a recent “Gathering in Prayer for Gaza” inter-faith prayer vigil at St Andrew’s, Indooroopilly
Hear from young Christian, Muslim, Jewish and Tamil Hindu inter-faith leaders, who led prayers and read from their holy texts at a recent youth-led “Gathering in Prayer for Gaza” prayer vigil at St Andrew’s Anglican Church in Indooroopilly. The youth-led vigil was the fourth in a series of “Gathering in Prayer for Gaza” inter-faith vigils that have been held in Brisbane since March
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