morepraxis

The Medical Association for the Prevention of War is holding an Art for Peace exhibition and auction, opening on 26 January 2006 at the Counihan Gallery, 233 Sydney Road, Brunswick. The auction will be held on 18 February. The exhibition will be opened at 6pm – 8 pm on Thursday 26 January and runs 26 January – 18 February. For further information contact either the Counihan Gallery on (03) 9389 8622 or the Medical Association for the Prevention of War on (03) 8334 1637.

 
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Bono spoke at a prayer breakfast before Mr. President, First Lady, King Abdullah, Other heads of State, Members of Congress, Jim Wallis plus others. Here is part of that address to what appears to be multi faith gathering of political and spiritual leaders.  Bono has guts – prophetic guts.
…..I’m here today in all [...]

A group of 43 Papuan asylum seekers, including seven children, landed in the Port York area of Queensland, Australia on 17 January 2006. They immediately appealed for human rights asylum and refugee status on the basis of claims of extraordinary human rights abuses committed by the Indonesian military in West Papua.

The Australian daily The Age reported on 30 January 2006 that according to a senior Australian immigration official, the refugees provided “graphic and disturbing accounts of beatings and torture by the Indonesian military.” According to this account, an official told The Age that the Papuans had a “very strong case” to be granted refugee status. The official added that “some of what has come out of the interviews has been absolutely heart-wrenching.” The refugees gave accounts of “vicious bashings while in prison and attacks on villages and livestock in retaliation for the Papuans agitating for independence.”

Below is a link to a Radio Program and a letter about ways we can support the West Papua nasylum seekers and advocates.

Also, there is a planning meeting to publicise the situation in West Papua @ Trades Hall Bar 1st floor, Trades Hall, Cnr Victoria St and Lygon St, Carlton South, enter via Victoria St. Australia West Papua Assoc. There will be a UCA presences and details will find its way to morepraxis. Wed 15 Feb, 6pm:

hear the radio (Monday 6th) here

 
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The guys over at The Chaser decide to go to church… The things that they’ll do to themselves for a story… Actually… the things they’ll get Big Brother runner-up Tim to do for a story…
Hillsong Church started where I grew up in the Hills district of north-west Sydney – the shire with the most [...]

Mrs. Coretta Scott King died on this week (Feb 1st). Last night and this morning my prayers and thoughts are with the family and movement. I trust they fuel your prayer too.

Part of the king centre press release below

Dr. King once said ���I am convinced that if I had not had a wife with the fortitude, strength and calmness of Coretta, I could not have stood up amid the ordeals and tensions surrounding the Montgomery movement. I came to see the real meaning of that rather trite statement: “A wife can either make or break a husband. Coretta proved to be that type of wife with qualities to make a husband when he could have been so easily broken. In the darkest moments she always brought the light of hope.���