Dhammananda Bhikkhuni, the first Thai woman to be ordained as a Theravada monk and current abbess of Songdhammakalyani Monastery, has been listed as one of the BBC’s 100 Women in 2019.
Source: Global Voices
The 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, is being celebrated worldwide — and for the first time in Bendigo.
Source: ABC
The foyer is adorned with colourful fabric and bunting. We’re welcomed by the sounds of Indian music while members of the Sikh community offer to tie turbans (Dastaar) around our heads.
Source: The Conversation
The Jewish Christian Muslim Association of Australia (JCMA) is appalled and horrified at the recent terrorist attack in Hall Germany, against worshippers in a Synogogue on the Jewish Day of Atonement.
Source: Jewish Christian Muslim Association
Baron Friedrich von Frankenberg was an unusual pioneer of the Sufi movement in Australia.
Source: ABC
Riley Lee will never forget the first time he heard the shakuhachi (a Japanese bamboo flute) on a record his brother brought home to Hawaii in the late 1960s.
Source: ABC
Anti-Semitism in Victorian schools is a monumental and hidden crisis that is keeping Jewish parents, who are terrified about the physical and mental safety of their children, up at night.
Source: The Age
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