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Australian religious support their sisters in the US
Catholic Religious Australia has offered support to the Leadership Conference of Women Religious in the United States following a Vatican edict that the largest body of religious women place themselves under the authority of an archbishop.
In a media release, CRA president Sr Anne Derwin said, "On behalf of the Council of Catholic Religious Australia I write to offer you and all your Sisters in LCWR our support at this time." 
US women religious have few choices
Options open to the women religious in the US are stark, according to a team of canon lawyers advising the leadership team as they discern their next move.
Nuns bucked by papal bulls
Tensions between enterprising women religious and church authorities go back a long way. Last week's Vatican action against women religious in the United States raises the same questions about respect and process as did the dismissal of Bishop Morris in Toowoomba. But its potential consequences are much larger.
Aussie Christians raise their voices to prevent aid cuts
Deeply concerned that the Federal Government is seriously considering breaking its promise to increase aid to 0.5% of Gross National Income by 2015, more than one thousand Micah Challenge supporters have raised their concerns with our nation’s leaders in the past month.
The promise to increase Australia’s overseas aid contribution from 0.35% to 0.5% of GNI was made by the Labor Government in 2007 and reaffirmed in 2010 as a bipartisan commitment. Yet speculation is rife concerning the Government’s intention to renege on its promised aid contributions in favour of bringing the budget into surplus next week.
Church opposes Stronger Futures draft laws for NT
The Catholic Church has joined with Aboriginal leaders in opposing the Federal Government's draft Stronger Futures laws, reports SBS.
Our century’s greatest injustice
Sheryl WuDunn's book Half the Sky investigates the oppression of women globally. Her stories shock. Only when women in developing countries have equal access to education and economic opportunity will we be using all our human resources.
As a journalist reporting on China, Sheryl WuDunn saw the everyday oppression of women around the world. She and Nick Kristof wrote Half the Sky chronicling women's stories of horror and, especially, hope.
Life in occupied Palestine
A one-hour video from American Jewish film-maker Anna Baltzer on her experiences of living in Palestine.
Wednesday June 27, 7.30pm, St Timothy's Church, Vermont. 
Mary Ward Justice Lectures
Bridging the Gap
Why Warriors is running its annual 'Bridging the Gap' seminar in July. This provides comprehensive, cross-cultural training, including online workshops and public seminars.
The training explores the core issues in cross-cultural dynamics and teaches effective communication skills and strategies when working with Aboriginal communities across Australia. For more information and to register, click here
Mary Ward Justice Lectures
Theologian, author and film maker Fr Daniel Groody speaks of his pastoral work on the US-Mexican border and issues related to globalisation and the movement of peoples in Mary Ward Justice Lectures in Australia's main centres in May.
Walking alongside indigenous communities
Brothers and Others again invites people to celebrate Reconciliation Week – May 26 to June 2, 2012 in a different way following a highly successful pilot immersion program in 2011. The Brothers and Others program began as an invitation for Brothers and people in the Edmund Rice Networks to walk with Indigenous peoples in North West NSW on a journey in their country.
The ‘Million Pleas’ Campaign
The Million Pleas campaign is an attempt to create the world’s longest video chain letter through a unique website at www.millionpleas.com. People from all over the world are encouraged to take part in the project and ask for a world free from nuclear weapons.
In conversation... with Claire Anterea & Phil Glendenning, Pacific Calling Partnership
As rising sea levels in the Pacific threaten to engulf the tiny nation of Kiribati, Claire Anterea tells of how her country people are dealing with salt in their drinking water and Phil Glendenning of the Edmund Rice Centre describes being in an emergency ward with the high tide washing around his feet.
Walk With Us
Aboriginal elders call out to Australian people to walk with them in their quest for justice. Walk With Us is a sequel to the highly regarded This Is What We Said (February 2010).
Beautifully illustrated, this hard-covered book provides an important update on current thinking about the Intervention. The book articulates the views of Aboriginal elders and of other leading Australians. Following her visit to meet with Aboriginal elders in Darwin, Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights expressed her own concerns.
Elders are calling on the ‘People of Australia’ to walk with them as they seek the return of their basic human rights in their quest for justice.
To order, visit www.concernedaustralians.com.au.
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