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How diverse is my suburb?

This interactive explores the diversity of Australian suburbia via ancestry, age, food, religion and birthplace data.

Find out how your suburb ranks against the rest of Australia and which suburbs are the most diverse.

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Source: SBS Online

The second International Day of Yoga was celebrated across major Australian cities including Canberra and Melbourne with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull hailing yoga as one of India's gifts to the world.

Turnbull commended Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision for supporting global peace and well-being and described the ancient practice of yoga as one of India's gifts to the world and acknowledged its aim to develop resilience,thoughtfulness, respect and harmony, towards each other and the world.

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Source: The Economic Times

An art project at an Islamic school in Melbourne's north has led to a remarkable cultural exchange between the country's oldest Australians, some of the newest and some of the toughest.

Tile by tile the Connection to Country mosaic comes to life in a classroom at Ilim College.

The students' heads are down. Their hands are busy. The chatter is about colours and shapes.

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Source: ABC

Victoria Police hosted its 12th Chief Commissioner’s Iftar dinner on Tuesday night to commemorate Ramadan together with representatives and leaders from Victoria’s Muslim and faith communities.

More than two hundred and eighty people attended the event, including more than 100 women of Muslim faith, 80 police officers and employees, and Muslim and faith communities from across the state.

The High Court has rejected an appeal against the Bendigo mosque, giving final approval to the project.

All legal avenues have now been exhausted, the Bendigo Advertiser reports

The mosque has already passed the City of Greater Bendigo, Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal and the Victoria Court of Appeal.

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Source: The Age

To the friends, families, and neighbors of the victims in Orlando: We, the global community of the Parliament of the World’s Religions, are with you.

We are - without qualification - with you. We grieve with you. We feel anger with you. We love you. Our prayers are with you.

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Source: Parliament of World Religions

Muslim farmers in a village in near the city of Gojra in Pakistan's Punjab province are putting their savings together and helping build a church for the Christians in their neighbourhood.

How does such tolerance and harmony exist in a place known for religious violence?

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Source: BBC

As part of the 'Exclusion and Embrace: Disability, Justice and Spirituality' conference, being held on 21-23 August in Melbourne, an opportunity exists for artists from across the faith spectrum to submit pieces that depict experiences of exclusion and/or embrace, as experienced from the perspective of a person with a disability, a parent or a carer.

We invite you to represent your personal experience of disability and how you reflect on that experience through your spirituality or faith. This Conference will draw on the wisdom of all faiths, and will deepen the understanding of the many aspects of disability and spirituality.

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