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“The VAD training day affirmed that the new legislation will impact many in our communities. While it may not directly impact you or a loved one, no doubt someone in your wider community, for example in your church family, will be impacted. Conversations about dying are important because it is something that we all face,” says The Rev’d Canon Cheryl Selvage
Reflections
“Because of the way I understand and make sense of Scripture and the teachings of the Church, I am an evangelical. However, there is a danger in labelling ourselves and others anything at all,” says The Rev’d Rick Gummow from the Parish of Drayton
The leaders of Queensland’s largest Christian churches have jointly expressed their shock and disappointment at the Queensland Premier’s changed promise on euthanasia legislation
As the Queensland Parliament continues its inquiry into palliative care and voluntary assisted dying, Archbishop Phillip Aspinall has signed a joint statement on the provision of end-of-life care, along with 15 other Queensland religious leaders. They are uniformly opposed to voluntary assisted dying, and are committed to the proper funding and availability of palliative care founded on the promotion of human dignity, human freedom and the common good
Last Friday, Archbishop Phillip Aspinall was joined by the Anglican Bishop for North Queensland, Bishop Keith Joseph, and the Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane’s Archbishop Mark Coleridge, in advocating before the Queensland Parliamentary Committee Inquiry hearing into aged care, end-of-life and palliative care and voluntary assisted dying
Queensland MPs are asking the public for their views on the introduction of voluntary assisted dying laws, with a report due by November and the Diocese rejecting the idea
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