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Quote of the Week: "Evil thrives in silence. Behaviour unspoken, behaviour ignored, is behaviour endorsed.” - Grace Tame
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Today is National Close The Gap Day, an opportunity to send our governments a clear message that Australians value health equality as a fundamental right for all. Go to the ANTAR website for more information.
Our Palm Sunday Justice and a Fair Go for Refugees event is shaping up to be one with a difference this year. A small live event at the UCIC Hall in the city, streamed out to hub groups and individuals, all passionate about justice, freedom and safety for refugees and people seeking asylum.
Keep up with developments and news of the Palm Sunday event by clicking 'Interested' on the Facebook event here. To register your hub, or join online on the day go to our website HERE for more information including a handy guide to hosting a Palm Sunday Hub.
Finally, we stand with all the women who have been speaking out against abuse and harassment in recent weeks. As our UCA Assembly President, Dr Deidre Palmer points out: “As the Uniting Church, and as followers of Jesus, we are called to name gender-based violence as a sin against God and a breach of the love, trust and care that Christ embodies and calls us to model.”
The Uniting Church Synod of Western Australia acknowledges the Wadjuk people of the Noongar nation, on whose land our Synod office stands. We acknowledge their elders past and present, and their people.
At its 7th Assembly the Uniting Church formally entered into a relationship of Covenant with its Indigenous members, recognising and repenting for the Church’s complicity in the injustices perpetrated on Australia’s Indigenous community, and pledging to move forward with a shared future. Congress’ generous response to this statement, among other messages, called upon the broader Church to take up the mission of reconciliation.
The ongoing and continually renewing nature of the Covenant calls the Uniting Church to continually act to remove the systems and structures of discrimination and oppression in Australia.The Uniting Church works for just, inclusive and equal relationships, recognising the place of First Peoples in Australia.
