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Interfaith

Catholic and Jewish leaders unite against antisemitism

Catholic Religious Australia and the Executive Council of Australian Jewry yesterday released a new resource to assist Catholic schools, communities and agencies to hold better-informed discussions about antisemitism.

Interfaith Saints

St John Paul II hailed as model for Catholics to fight anti-Semitism

St John Paul II’s example as a strong bridge-builder between Catholicism and Judaism should be used against enduring antisemitism, according to a theologian who wrote a two-volume biography of one of the longest-serving popes. Source: OSV News.

Interfaith Southeast Asia

Indonesians discusss Pope’s impact on religious tolerance

Indonesian scholars and religious leaders have discussed Pope Francis’ influence on the religious landscape following his 2024 visit to the nation. Source: Vatican News.

Interfaith

Interfaith bonds strengthen amid rise in anti-Semitism

Canberra-Goulburn Archbishop Christopher Prowse has visited the ACT Jewish Centre to express the Catholic community’s solidarity with the Jewish community and to explore ways to foster interfaith collaboration. Source: Catholic Voice.

Bishops Interfaith Religious Freedom

Archbishop Costelloe urges Christians to support Jewish Australians

Australian Catholic Bishops Conference president Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB has urged Christians to actively support and protect Jewish-Australians under attack from “the violent and senseless attitude which goes by the name of anti-Semitism”. Source: The Australian.

Interfaith Mission

Catholic Mission’s interfaith program secures major grant

Catholic Mission’s Interfaith Encounters Program, which enables young people to develop new friendships, celebrate difference, deepen faith, and promote peace and social cohesion, has won a grant from Multicultural NSW’s COMPACT Program.

Interfaith

Religious leaders gather to support Jewish community

Under the theme “Unity, Hope, and Light”, religious leaders gathered last night to support the Jewish community, which has faced vitriolic abuse and acts of terror in Sydney and Melbourne in recent weeks. Source: Broken Bay Diocese.

Interfaith

Muslim Kazakhstan is listening to the Pope

Pope Francis’ vision of global solidarity and interreligious fraternity has found a foothold in Kazakhstan, a predominantly Muslim Central Asian nation. Source: National Catholic Register.

Interfaith Religious Freedom

Interfaith roundtable discusses equality law concerns

Commercial surrogacy, gender self-identification on birth certificates, and the safety of women-only spaces were at the forefront of a roundtable discussion of interfaith leaders and NSW state Liberal MLC Susan Carter. Source: The Catholic Weekly.