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2008
June
Refugee Week
The Refugee Council of Australia has produced a resource kit for Refugee Week (15 – 21 June) and a poster. Click here to download the kit and here for the poster.
Principles that Can Change the World
The Tasmanian Catholic Justice and Peace Commission is launching a series of leaflets on key principles of Catholic Social Teaching. Click here for details of launch events.
NAIDOC Week
NAIDOC Week will be celebrated 6 – 13 July this year and the focus city is Canberra. Click here to visit the NAIDOC Committee website where you can order posters and find out about events.
Youth Theatre of the Oppressed
Young people from Australia, Brazil and the Philippines will employ dance drama and music to inspire solidarity, action and empowerment in this program organized by the Columban Centre for Peace, Ecology and Justice during July. For details of dates and locations, click here.
Learn About Interreligious Dialogue
Relations between believers is emerging as one of the most important issues in the world, and is very relevant to multi-cultural, multi-religious Australia. Click here for more information on a second semester course at the Catholic Institute of Sydney offered by Columban Father Patrick McInerney, a member of the Bishops Council for Ecumenism and Interreligious Relations and head of the Missiology Department at the Catholic Institute of Sydney.
Justice & the Mission of the Church
This course, offered by the Catholic Institute of Sydney in intensive mode over three weekends, presents the scriptural call for justice, how justice is integral to the evangelizing mission of the Catholic Church, option for the poor, structures of sin, social change, the role of religion in the public forum. Click here for more information.
