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November E-News

Thursday, November 24th, 2011

Share In this issue: Challenging Times for our Partners in West Papua and Amritsar, North India |  Dollar for Dollar Initiative ending 30th November – Horn of Africa Appeal | Creative Giving with Everything in Common | Learning Together: Women from Vanuatu and Australia connect | Experiencing Development in Context – InSolidarity 2012 | Rolling out LentEvent 2012 Challenging Times for... Read More »

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Challenging Times for our Partners in West Papua and North India

Thursday, November 24th, 2011

Share West Papua Confrontation looms in West Papua. Thursday December 1st is the 50th anniversary since Papuan independence was first declared and West Papua moved from Dutch colonial rule to a United Nations mandate. That mandate was handed to Indonesia two years later and history now demonstrates West Papua was, somewhat controversially, incorporated into the Republic of Indonesia in 1969 after a... Read More »

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Everything in Common Gift Catalogue 2011

Wednesday, October 26th, 2011

Share Sight to the blind, freedom for captives, good news to the poor this Christmas. UnitingWorld has just launched the Everything in Common Gift Catalogue, your chance to give sight to the blind, freedom for captives and good news to the poor this Christmas. The Catalogue contains gifts that support the ministry of Uniting Church Partners beyond Australia in the areas of Relief and Development, Peacemaking,... Read More »

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October E-News

Monday, October 17th, 2011

Share In this issue:  Farewell Joy Balazo | More Than Peace in Mindanao | Uncompromising Compassion for North Korea | Gifts to be DOUBLED dollar for dollar | Here, there and everywhere | Everything in Common 2011 | Opportunity to help shape our mission Farewell Joy Balazo After twenty years of travelling across the Asia-Pacific region spreading seeds of peace, the founder of Young Ambassadors... Read More »

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In announcing Horn of Africa Dollar-for-Dollar Initiative Minister for Foreign Affairs Kevin Rudd commends Uniting Church

Wednesday, October 5th, 2011

Share Today The Hon Kevin Rudd MP, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, stood outside Tecoma Uniting Church in Melbourne to announce the Australian Government’s plans to support Australian NGO’s, including the Relief and Development Unit of UnitingWorld, in their response to the Horn of Africa crisis. The Australian Government’s Dollar-for-Dollar initiative will match each dollar donated... Read More »

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