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Bishop Daniel Abot's Maundy Thursday 2025 message

“Could I make a personal request for as many of you as are able to come to a Maundy Thursday service and join in remembering the sequence of events, without which Palm Sunday to Easter Day do not come together, and it is THE story on which our faith is based,” invites Bishop Daniel Abot

Elijah Buol OAM accepting his 2019 Queensland Local Hero in the Australian of the Year Awards, which he received for his work in the youth justice system and for assisting young and disadvantaged community members
Spotlight Q&A

Q&A with Brisbane Anglican, Act for Peace CEO and 2019 Queensland Local Hero, Elijah Buol OAM

Meet the inspiring Elijah Buol OAM and find out about his remarkable faith journey, his recent meeting with Archbishop Jeremy, why the Bible is so special to him, the high school teacher whose kindness changed his life, what makes him nostalgic and his earliest memory

Reflections

To Fargo and back

“Hugging people with tears of joy was the highlight of my recent trip to the US for me. We former Lost Boys had lots to reminisce about because we are such good friends — we kept each other alive on the long desert journeys and during our 15 years in the refugee camps,” says Bishop Daniel Abot

Reflections

The miraculous story of baby Angeer

“Because I had been flown from Juba in a Mission Aviation Fellowship plane, I was able to arrange for baby Angeer to be airlifted to a hospital in Juba. She was held lovingly in the aircraft on the way,” says Bishop Daniel Abot from South Sudan

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Bishop Daniel Abot’s Palm Sunday 2024 message

“I remember my first Palm Sunday. It was in 1987. I was fleeing to Ethiopia from South Sudan, along with thousands of other young boys and girls, to avoid being conscripted as a child soldier. Even though I was only 11 years old at the time, I knew it was Palm Sunday. Because we were fleeing on foot through the bush, the only way we could keep track of time was by the moon. We gathered under a shady tree in prayer to commemorate the special day,” says Bishop Daniel Abot