When is it okay to want more?

BY Cath Taylor
May 22nd, 2013

If you’ve grown up around churches or with some kind of spiritual heritage, you’re probably uncomfortable with the idea of wanting more.  It sounds greedy – and who wants that when we’re trying to walk in the footsteps of the one who a…

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Looking for a positive way to respond to disappointing Aid figures? Look no further than our May e-news

BY UnitingWorld
May 16th, 2013

This tax time, here’s a really effective way to make sure $1.2 billion people living on less than $1.25 a day don’t get left behind in all this budget talk. We have been hearing some incredibly positive stories coming out of our brand new midwife training initiative in South Sudan. As one of the projects we’re supporting this year through the Matching Gift Fund, you have an opportunity to make sure even more women can be trained by donating to the Do More Together appeal; it’s the very best way to make your tax-deductible dollar go further. Read the story and find out more below.

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Bridging the gap between belief and action: the challenge of International Day of Families.

BY Cath Taylor
May 15th, 2013

International Day of Families is a great day for slogans. All families are equal!  YES!  All families have a right to health care, education and nutritious food!  YES! And yet probably one of the hardest questions I’ll ever ask myself occurred to …

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2013/2014 Federal Budget – Our response

BY UnitingWorld
May 15th, 2013

UnitingWorld expresses disappointment today that the Government has again delayed its foreign aid commitment of 0.5% of GNI for another year and will continue to divert up to $375 million from the aid budget to onshore asylum seeker processing. These further delays and diversions equate to a cut of up to $4.8 billion in projected [...]

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Giving your heart to love and your hand to help

BY UnitingWorld
May 13th, 2013

Rev Paul Bartlett, one of UnitingWorld’s newest staff members, has just spent a week with our partners on the Indonesian islands of Bali and Sumba. He witnessed first hand how small loans and business skills training is giving a hand up to famili…

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Handy Hints for Mission Volunteers – with thanks to Lu Piper

BY Kathy Pereira
April 30th, 2013

After many years of service in remote areas of the Papuan Islands region, UnitingWorld today said thank you to the amazing Rev Lu Piper for her deep commitment and service. In asking Lu what hints she had for others interested in serving as volunteers …

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It’s time for action

BY Bruce Mullan
April 28th, 2013

In a current Australian co-sponsored study of sexual violence in six Asia-Pacific countries, one in every four men admitted raping a woman or girl and one in every 25 had participated in gang rape. These are data averages from more than ten thousand me…

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Real peace is about justice and it starts with me

BY Cath Taylor
April 25th, 2013

“Real peace is not just the absence of conflict- it is the presence of justice.”  Martin Luther King. Dawn, April 25.  In hushed cities and towns all over Australia, school children shuffle and stamp their feet, blowing softly into the sleeves of…

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A unique gift for Mother’s Day, volunteer placements and speaking up to end poverty: your April e-news

BY UnitingWorld
April 18th, 2013

A gift of motherhood

Wondering what to get your mum this Mother’s Day? What could be better than the gift of motherhood… for a woman in South Sudan? One of the world’s poorest nations, South Sudan also has the highest maternal mortality rate in the world because women don’t have access to the simplest maternal care.

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A gift of faith – travels with Ji Zhang and Kathy Pereira

BY Kathy Pereira
April 17th, 2013

Which country in the world am I visiting if: 21 years ago there was one theological college with 19 students but now there are over 21 theological colleges and bible schools with more than 30,000 graduates? 4000,000 new converts join the church each ye…

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