Resisting ISIS! Beyond Secularism and Religious Fanaticism NOVEMBER 13, 2014 / MARTIN ACCAD by Martin Accad The Middle East is in turmoil! That’s a bit of an understatement. Are you feeling frustrated and helpless about it? This has been an ongoing feeling for me since ISIS (the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) hit the […]

We will continue asking to release kids in detention December 11 2014, ‪ #‎LoveMakesAWay‬ movement holds national day of action in MPs’ offices calling for ALL detained children to be released into the community – 53 Christian leaders arrested or forcibly removed from MP offices – Perth leaders – including a mother who was praying with her […]

Dave Andrews Asa Jennings was born in Upstate New York. USA on September 20, 1877. Very little is known about Asa’s childhood. And, according to Giles Milton, Asa grew up to be a very unremarkable adult. Giles said Asa was a ‘shy individual, five feet tall and diminutive of build, he wore large glasses and […]

Just because people belong to the same faith doesn’t always mean they will get on well. Differences can emerge even between brothers who worship together. Ramjan Miya and Adbul Gaffar Shah, of Pathardiaya in Kapilvastu, fell out over the location of a new mosque for their Muslim community. Ten years ago, the community decided to […]

The mental health industry is a big and complex beast. Amid the high-tech, neurological, genetic and pharmaceutical landscape it is easy for religious communities to feel nervous and disempowered. “What could we possibly have to offer that might bring healing in the midst of such prohibitively high-tech approaches to mental health care?” Jean Vanier, founder of L’Arche, provides […]

History pits them against each other, but a fiery passion united this year’s interfaith Nobel Peace Prize winners around the common goal of children’s rights. Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi — a Muslim education activist from Pakistan and a Hindu child slavery abolitionist from India — are joint recipients of the 113-year-old honor, the Norwegian […]

By Janet Allon The Grace Shown by James Foley’s Parents Is Unfathomable to Me. No anger, resentment, nor calls for revenge. They’re not even mad at him for going back to Syria. I got mad at my son for cutting his finger the other day. He had accidentally broken the lightbulb in a lamp he […]

Commuters tilt train to free man whose leg was trapped between platform and carriage AFP | Aug 6, 2014, 03.54 PM IST PERTH, AUSTRALIA: Dozens of Australians tilted a train on Wednesday to free a commuter whose leg was trapped between a carriage and a platform, with authorities praising their efforts as an example of “people power”. […]

“As a father who lost his children in Gaza, I call for an end to this bloodshed” Palestinians and Israelis must work together to build a new generation that believes in humanity and freedom Izzeldin Abuelais theguardian.com, Friday 18 July 2014 22.29 AEST Insanity, as Einstein said, is doing the same thing over and over and expecting […]

Israelis Pay Condolences To Family Of Murdered Palestinian Teen The Huffington Post  | By Yasmine Hafiz Over 350 Israelis made their way to a mourning tent in Jerusalem on Tuesday to pay their condolences to the family of Mohammad Abu Khdeir, a Palestinian teenager who was brutally beaten, burned, and murdered last week. Khdeir’s death is believed to […]

The remarkable journey of this Adelaide Catholic to Australia is the stuff of legend, and his achievements within Australia almost as extraordinary. If there was a defining moment which said to the world that Hieu Van Le would be a leader, it came in a small wooden fishing boat crammed with more than 50 seasick […]

Over the Easter weekend I joined Tri Nguyen and three other asylum seekers, Linda, Daniel and Majid on the last leg of their walk from Melbourne to Canberra to take a message to the heart of the nation. Tri wanted to thank Australians for giving him the gift of refuge when he came with his family […]