NEWS
News from our member churches and the wider ecumenical movement, with our monthly roundup and a library of stories from ecumenical bodies around the world.
A new general secretary for the National Council of Churches in Australia
The board of the National Council of Churches in Australia has appointed Dr Kate Power as its new general secretary, the first to be based in Queensland.
The Lutheran World Federation visits Australia
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A WCC lecture in Sydney on memory and healing
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Australia’s ecumenical officers meet in Brisbane
Ecumenical officers from the National Council of Churches in Australia and the state and territory councils of churches met at St John’s Anglican Diocesan Centre in Brisbane, hosted by Queensland Churches Together.
Australian churches pray together for unity
The National Council of Churches in Australia and the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference held an ecumenical prayer service at the Mary MacKillop Memorial Chapel in Sydney on 12 May, ahead of the Week of Prayer.
An Armenian homily for the Week of Prayer in Australia
The National Council of Churches in Australia announced that its annual Prayers for Christian Unity on 20 May would be held online, with a recorded homily by Bishop Vardan Navasardyan, Primate of the Armenian Church of Australia and New Zealand, and hymns from the choir of the Armenian Apostolic Church of the Holy Resurrection in Chatswood, Sydney.
Easter messages from Australia’s church leaders
The National Council of Churches in Australia published Easter messages from the national leaders of its member churches, noting that Western churches would celebrate Easter on 5 April and the Orthodox and Oriental churches would keep Pascha a week later, on 12 April.