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Have you ever taken time to reflect on your life experiences and think about how your views on faith and spirituality may have changed at different times in your life?  At the Frankston Interfaith Network 'Spirituality At Midlife' workshop on Sunday 30th June, at Frankston Library, we had the opportunity to do just that.

A Taste of Faith forum on Sunday June 16 drew a good crowd of mostly women from the three Abrahamic faiths to the Paddy O’Donoghue Centre in Noble Park.

Some 68 people gathered in St Augustine's Hall to hear Vicki Clark of Aboriginal Catholic Ministry give a talk on Indigenous Spirituality on Monday, 13 June, 2013.

12 June 2013

The UN refugee agency and representatives of 25 faith-based Non-Governmental Organizations will today unveil a landmark declaration aimed at strengthening protection for the world's more than 40 million refugees, internally displaced, and stateless people.

Religions for Peace (RfP) Australia, formerly known as the World Conference of Religions for Peace (Australia), is an Australian community-based interfaith organization working for inter-religious harmony and social cohesion.

Senator for the ACT and Minister for Multicultural Affairs, Senator Kate Lundy,  was today (31/05/13) pleased to launch a new grants program worth $4.55 million nationally which will provide funding for community organisations to purchase new equipment, undertake refurbishments and build new infrastructure.

The average percentage of global youth trusting religious leaders is now in the single digits. This “mass exodus” is becoming a pervasive challenge for a lion’s share of the world’s major faith traditions while leaders grapple, struggle, and investigate.

HALAL food is now sold at a dozen McDonald's restaurants and bacon is off the menu at some KFC outlets to accommodate the religious sensitivities of Australia's growing Muslim population. The Muslim population has soared by 40 per cent to 476,291 in just five years - paving the way for a building program of schools, mosques and prayer rooms in the suburbs of Sydney and Melbourne.