Faith Communities Council of Victoria: Promoting a Harmonious Victoria

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Welcome to FCCV

Established in 2010, the Faith Communities Council of Victoria (FCCV) is Victoria’s umbrella multifaith body. It is the successor to the Leaders of Faith Communities Forum, founded in 1995.

FCCV was created to contribute to the harmony of the Victorian community by promoting positive relations between people of different faiths and greater public knowledge and mutual understanding of the teachings, customs and practices of Victoria's diverse faith traditions.

2022-23 Multifaith Calendar

logomfcalendar The following are major holy days and festivals for Baha'i, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism and Sikhism. Whilst this list is not exhaustive it is comprehensive to represent each of the religions in good faith.

Click here to view 2023 Multifaith Calendar (pdf)

Click here to view 2022 Multifaith Calendar (pdf)

Vale Queen Elizabeth II: A Champion for Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations

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Queen Elizabeth II is being hailed as a woman of great personal Christian faith who achieved more in advancing ecumenism and inter-faith dialogue than any previous English monarch.

Source: Catholic Weekly

King Charles to be Defender of the Faith but also a defender of faiths

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The King shares his mother’s religious devotion and has also shown great interest in non-Christian faiths.

Source: The Guardian

The Interfaith Network of the City of Greater Dandenong is seeking volunteers

The Interfaith Network of the City of Greater Dandenong is seeking volunteers. There are currently three positions available:

ABS to consult on religious classifications

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The Australian Bureau of Statistics has started consultation on a major review of data it collects on religions.

Source: The Mandarin

Countering religious bullying with better religious education

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Troubling reports of “rampant” religious bullying in Australian schools has reignited the “religion in schools debate”.

Source: ABC

SBS’s The Cultural Atlas expands to include religion

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Profiles on Roman Catholic Christianity, Protestant Christianity, Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Theravāda Buddhism and Mahāyāna Buddhism have been added to SBS’s The Cultural Atlas.

Source: SBS

Review of Victoria’s Reportable Conduct Scheme

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The Victorian Government introduced the Reportable Conduct Scheme (the Scheme) to make organisations safer for children by protecting them from abuse and misconduct.

Source: Commission for Children and Young People

Melbourne Sikhs United creates history in Victoria’s domestic hockey league

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Both Mains and Reserves teams of Melbourne Sikhs United (MSU) Hockey Club have made it to the Grand Finals of Men's Victorian League 2 this year.

Source: SBS

'The world is watching': Australian daughter of Iranian Baha'i in prison pleads for her release

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When Negar Sabet awakes after a restless night in Sydney, she agonises about her elderly mother, Mahvash Sabet, who has been locked up in Iran's notorious Evin prison since the end of July.

Source: ABC

‘A long way to go’: Catholic women call for wide-ranging church reforms in new international survey

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The International Survey of Catholic Women is one of the most extensive surveys of Catholic women ever undertaken. The aim of the survey was to gather feedback on the experiences of Catholic women.

Source: The Conversation

Submission made to NSW Govt for awareness campaign about difference in Swastika and Nazi symbol Hakenkreuz

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The rights of Hindus to display a Swastika were recently preserved and protected by a significant piece of legislation that was passed in the NSW Parliament.

Source: The Australia Today