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On behalf of the congregations and committees participating in the Islamic Council of Victoria’s (ICV), the ICV would like to formally invite you to attend one of the many mosques partaking in our annual state-wide mosque open day this year.

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Source: Islamic Council of Victoria

Former prime minister John Howard has reignited the religious freedom debate, arguing schools should be able to hire teachers based on whether they accept the beliefs the school is based on in the same way political parties favour staff who believe in a party’s ideals.

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Source: The Guardian

Jewish women have used a mikvah or ritual bath for generations, but when COVID meant Tasmania's faithful could not travel interstate for the purifying act.

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Source: The Guardian

On the site of a church torn down by East Germany’s communist rulers, a new place of worship is set to rise that will bring Christians, Jews and Muslims under one roof – and it has already been dubbed a “churmosquagogue”.

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Source: The Guardian

Leading Muslims, government officials, and parliamentarians around the world have joined a growing outcry at the unjust confiscation of properties owned by Bahá’ís in the Iranian farming village of Ivel.

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Source: Baha'i World News Service

With deep distress, Religions for Peace Myanmar, and Religions for Peace International, on behalf of all its regional and national entities, plead with all stakeholders, to deescalate the sad turn of events in the streets of Myanmar.

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Source: Religions for Peace

A pastor in Melbourne’s southeast has been fined after holding a church service in defiance of the Stage 4 COVID lockdown rules.

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Source: Islamic Council of Victoria

Whether it was the power of her prayers or her T-cells that did it, 116-year-old French nun Lucile Randon has survived COVID-19.

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Source: ABC