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A record of 330 attendees sacrificing the comfort of seating to celebrate ZCK’s 23rd Anniversary Celebration with us and be part of the Forces for Good in Victoria!

We were honoured to welcome faith and community leaders from the Buddhist, Baha’i, Christian, Hindu, Islamic, Sikh, and Zoroastrian traditions, and representatives from Interfaith Networks of Casey, Whitehorse, Kingston, Knox, Dandenong, Manningham, and Monash.

We all raised and proudly sang the Australian Anthem together!

God Forbid explores how burial traditions across faiths are shaped by theology, ecology, and culture. And how those traditions are being challenged by modern pressures like urbanisation and climate change.

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Source: ABC God Forbid podcast

In the two weeks following the 2025 federal election, the four of us — a Hazara lawyer, a Jewish pianist and writer, a Hazara human rights advocate, and a Jewish journalist — found ourselves talking. We were from different backgrounds, shaped by different histories, yet each of us felt something similar stir as Australia quietly rejected the politics of hate.

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Source: ABC

A new video series, Aboriginal Spirituality & Culture, featuring Aboriginal theologian Reverend Dr Garry Deverell is available online.

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At an eye-catching construction site in Melbourne's south-east, ornately carved marble blocks, like the ones used in the Taj Mahal, are being assembled "like a jigsaw puzzle".

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Source: ABC

A renewed fight over religious freedoms awaits the re-elected Labor government as faith groups and LGBTQ advocates push Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to resolve the thorny issue after he abandoned it last year to avoid culture wars.

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Source: Sydney Morning Herald

Pope Leo XIV used his first address as pontiff, spoken from the balcony of St Peter's Basilica on May 8, to call for "a peace that is unarmed and disarming".

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Source: ABC

More passengers and airport visitors dying or struggling with medical conditions means Melbourne Airport’s small chaplaincy team has been busier since the COVID pandemic.

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Source: Melbourne Anglican