Do you sometimes need a bit of motivation to take action? Do you like good music with meaningful lyrics? Do you want to support the Pine Gap 4 as we head towards trial? Well, it just so happens we can cater for all these needs.    Rise Up and Speak the Truth is a compilation CD with […]

Here at the WCC’s Keeping the Faith site you can find wonderful multimedia stories of local communities of faith keeping it real and through faith, hope and love, making a difference in our world. There are also warnings, like the story from Rwanda, of what can happen when we fail to be the change we […]

I am proud to say that I am a Christian: for it is the faith that is dearly and preciously held by many of the poorest peoples of the earth. Of course, what implications this faith has for somebody as rich as I am is no doubt going to be profoundly different in many respects […]

Video: From Little Things Big Things Grow – Make Poverty History Kev Carmody, John Butler and Paul Kelly perform From Little Things Big Things Grow at the Make Poverty History concert in Melbourne 2006. . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tHEGo-g3mw

This year on Martin Luther King Day everyone will be reading — or should be reading — Dr. King’s famous denunciation of the Vietnam war: “A Time To Break Silence.” For those of us working to end the war in Iraq, it holds a valuable lesson: Once we’ve expressed our moral outrage, we’ve only just […]

Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. This is an audio recording of a sermon by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. in which he raises several themes including how he wishes to be remembered. http://www.hpol.org/record.php?id=84  

3 Minute music video http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12980.htm

“I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” – Elie Wiesel

A great band from the UK. Music of conscience, protest & spirit building. http://www.seizetheday.org/ If you are aware of the current debate about air travel and global warming, check out this song of theirs – it’s great! It’s called: “Flying”…. http://www.moonspace.co.uk/clients/seizetheday/cffiles/preview/preview.cfm?song=5

by Howard Thurman When the star in the sky is gone, When the Kings and Princes are home, When the shepherds are back with their flocks, The work of Christmas begins. To find the lost, To heal the broken, To feed the hungry To release the prisoner, To teach the nations, To bring Christ to […]

“No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.” – Dorothy Day

In 1994, decades of suspicion and hate erupted into a frenzy of killing in Rwanda, resulting in the death of almost one million people over 100 days  As in all cases of genocide and war, the survivors – both victims and perpetrators – are left with a terrible legacy of loss, pain and shame. In […]