tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89642075961729075372024-02-07T15:25:22.638+11:00Beside The Creek... a blog of spirituality, events, and insights with an interfaith perspectiveBrigidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07862531789968068093noreply@blogger.comBlogger754125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964207596172907537.post-12293253489085849062018-12-05T12:01:00.000+11:002018-12-05T12:01:50.294+11:00Social cohesion. Religious diversity. Ethnic diversity.<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have been missing in action for a while. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Old age and ill health has been playing havoc with me in no uncertain terms. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An interesting graph has come across my 'puter this morning </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">from the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pg/faithccv/posts/?ref=notif">Faith Communities Council of Victoria</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is interesting in our Australian context.</span></div>
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Brigidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07862531789968068093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964207596172907537.post-20294353881511870732018-11-15T14:38:00.000+11:002018-11-15T14:38:07.939+11:00God's beautiful creation ... for His pleasure and for ours<div class="entry-meta" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #888888; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, "Nimbus Sans L", sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Superb Fairy-wren, Wyndham Street Newstead, 11th November 2018</span></div>
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Brigidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07862531789968068093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964207596172907537.post-54357585521512599422018-11-13T20:08:00.000+11:002018-11-13T20:08:16.072+11:00The Thai Theravada tradition in Ballarat<br />
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<b><a href="https://www.watthaibhavana.org.au/">Ballarat Buddhist Centre</a></b><br />
<b>Wat Thai Bhavana is a Buddhist community in the Thai Theravada tradition.</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It is a community for all people who are interested in the Buddhist way of life. Everyone is welcome, irrespective of age, colour or creed. We offer guidance to those interested in practising the Dhamma.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Dhamma is the teachings given by the Lord Buddha over 2600 years ago, and those teachings point to an underlying and transcendent reality which everyone can experience directly for themselves. In order to see reality as it truly is without the fetters of craving and desire, the Buddha established a series of practices taken together are referred to as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Eightfold_Path">Noble Eightfold Path</a>. This path of practice includes developing generosity and kindness, morality, and meditation, leading to the unfolding of wisdom.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You can listen by using the LINE app either on your smartphone, tablet device or PC. After you have downloaded and installed this app you will then have to send us an email asking for us to add you to the "Vip. Chanting"group. This may sound cumbersome, but the LINE app does not let you join a group on your own. You have to have a current member of the group to invite you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>You can download the Line app from this website : https://linecorp.com/en/business/service</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Tuesday only 7.00 pm - 8.00 pm </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Evening Chanting, Meditation, Dhamma talk (In English language)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">All other days 9.00 pm - 10.00 pm </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Special Chanting, Meditation, Dhamma talk (In Thai language)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">25 November 2018 at the Buninyong Town Hall </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">from 10.00 am to 3.00 pm (309A Learmonth Street)</span></div>
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Brigidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07862531789968068093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964207596172907537.post-82547848284207066202018-10-26T05:30:00.000+11:002018-10-26T05:30:06.836+11:00Hasidic women in Brooklyn break through the gender barrier to establish their own ambulance service<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>In a new documentary, the brave work of a group of rule-breaking women in an Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn is brought to light</b></div>
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For many years, Hasidic women in the Brooklyn neighbourhood of Borough Park had a problem.</div>
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If they were stricken by illness or accident, or suddenly went into labour, their only ambulance option was the local branch of the Hatzolah, a volunteer emergency service set up to serve Orthodox Jews.</div>
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The Hatzolah are good; the crews have a response time of one to two minutes. But the Hatzolah are also all male – a very real issue in a religion and community that orders strict separation of genders.</div>
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It meant Hasidic women needing emergency medical attention would sometimes refrain from calling for an ambulance.</div>
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“Women were too embarrassed to call for help and then didn’t call for help,” said Paula Eiselt, the director of 93Queen, a new documentary which follows the efforts of Hasidic women in Borough Park to set up their own all female, ambulance service.</div>
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Brigidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07862531789968068093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964207596172907537.post-68921081590110231522018-10-24T11:43:00.000+11:002018-10-24T12:28:16.498+11:00Sufism, Muslims - and homosexuality<div class="inline-content photo full" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; clear: both; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: none 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">
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Rida Khan is a Sufi Muslim and a bisexual — and she wants to shatter some misconceptions.</div>
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"It's assumed that a lot of same-sex, bisexual or other gender diverse Muslims are having sex and that's actually a myth," says the 24-year-old aged-care nurse.</div>
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"It's like saying that all Muslim youth that are straight are engaging in heterosexual sex — and that's just far out, like, come on.</div>
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What is Sufism?</h2>
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"Most of us are scared of having an aunty identify us with a guy or a girl."</div>
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Rida realised she was bisexual as a 17-year-old, but she waited a few years before announcing this to her Pakistani friends and family. She and her family are Sufis — followers of the mystical branch of Islam.</div>
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"My experience of coming out was in fact quite positive, quite different from the stories we hear in other gender-diverse communities," she says.</div>
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"But I think it does have a lot to do with the fact that my parents have lived in Turkey, we have lived in Japan, we've lived in Australia.</div>
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"When I came out it was like, 'meh, okay, you're still the same to me'."</div>
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'Not right' for the community</h2>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">While some <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-07/religious-leaders-thinking-differently-about-same-sex-marriage/8878680" style="color: #310099; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_self" title="">progressive Muslim leaders</a> support same-sex marriage, it is widely interpreted by Islamic schools of thought that same-sex intimacy is 'haram' or 'forbidden'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"People think if you're bisexual, if you're homosexual … that's God testing you to prove that you can be a better person, that you can be a better Muslim and that you can rise above your so-called lust," Rida says.</span></div>
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"It's the women who are bullying me, the aunties who are really horrible [saying] 'Stay away from her, she's not a good person'.</div>
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"I don't know if it's jealousy or what it is, but they need to be kinder to gender-diverse women, they need to be kinder to women from Muslim minorities in this country."</div>
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But the pendulum swings both ways.</div>
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Rida says she's received just as much discrimination from Australia's LGBTQI community — because of her faith.<strong style="margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"></strong></div>
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"It's like they constantly ridicule your religion," she says.</div>
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"They don't understand that religion can actually act as a tool for empowering you."</div>
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Faith isn't the only friction point. Rida says she's felt an expectation to fit in with Western expressions of queer sexuality.</div>
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"Not all people of colour from gender-diverse backgrounds actually relate to the mainstream sexuality, particularly along the lines of hypersexuality and self-objectification," she says.</div>
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"And we do get put down for it, like, 'if you're bisexual then prove yourself'."</div>
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Sometimes, prejudice can feel like it's coming from all sides.</div>
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"First, you're not accepted by the Muslim community because you're bisexual, then you're not accepted by the gender-diverse community in Australia for being Muslim," Rida says.</div>
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"Then you also identify as a woman of colour — so when discrimination and bullying happens, you don't know which of the three they are discriminating against you [for]."</div>
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Siobhan Irving is an anthropologist, PhD candidate and a board member for Sydney Queer Muslims.</div>
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She converted to Islam as a 19-year-old and has spent the past five years collecting stories from gay and lesbian Muslims in Sydney and Singapore.</div>
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Ms Irving says Rida's story isn't unique.</div>
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"In the queer community — and just in general, really — many people do not understand why a same-sex attracted Muslim would still embrace their faith ... would still be proud of their religious community," she says.</div>
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"It's difficult for them to express both their identities as Muslims and as same-sex attracted people — they often feel that they must choose."</div>
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Ms Irving says last year's national plebiscite on same-sex marriage brought Islamophobic attitudes to the fore.</div>
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"People in the queer community — and elsewhere — presumed that this just meant Muslims voted against it, because the Western suburbs are known as being very much populated by Muslim communities," she points out.</div>
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In the aftermath, Ms Irving spoke to many LGBTQI Muslims who felt pressured to defend their faith in queer circles and spaces, if they disclosed it at all.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sufism or Tasawwuf, as it is known in Arabic, is not a sect of Islam, like Sunni or Shia, but rather a spiritual practice, and theory, that can be found in all branches of the faith.<strong style="margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Rida's parents, for instance, practise Sufism within the Sunni Hanafi tradition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Meanwhile, Rida describes her faith as "Aboriginal-Sufi-centric Islam"; a practice influenced by Indigenous Dreamtime stories and her 'Baloch' bedouin ancestry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Introspection, meditation and dhikr (devotional chanting) are core elements of Sufism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Rida says these practises give her an inner strength to combat the external conflicts that come from being a bisexual Muslim.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"The modern Sufi community here in Melbourne looks something like a mix of hipsters [who] have a very deep intimate relationship with God," she says.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"[It's about] sitting together, discussing life issues, reading Rumi's poetry, and overall just really trying to do the best we can in a world which is largely right-wing or left-wing — we really fall somewhere in the middle."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">According to Ed Husain, author of The House of Islam: A Global History, Sufi poets like Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi and Omar Khayyam celebrate an inner spirituality that can be overlooked in more hard-lined expressions of Islam.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"Their poetry ... is much more focused towards drawing to God and the divine through love, attraction, passion, hope and optimism, rather than [being] fearful of God and fussing over sins and hellfire and worrying about the consequences of whether, you know, your hair shows," he told Rachael Kohn on a recent episode of RN's <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/spiritofthings/ed-husain/10177364" style="color: #310099; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_self" title="">The Spirit of Things</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"The fact that the Prophet Muhammad was reciting beautiful poetry was because he was internally in communication with the divine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"And if you lose that internal communication, externality becomes ugly and rigid."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For Rida, Muslims and non-Muslims alike can gain joy from introspection.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"Sufism itself is just a practice to help you become closer to your divine," she says.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"[It tries] to get you to understand that the universe is a much bigger picture than what institutionalised religion has made it out to be."</span></div>
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It is not yet known who is responsible for the attack but given the word "Jesus" was scrawled on the inside of the temple it is not unreasonable to imagine that the perpetrates of this crime are the same kind of extreme right wing "christianist" terror<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">ists that that have now desecrated our worship space on two occasions, and abused worshipers at a Brisbane Mosque.</span></div>
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Brigidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07862531789968068093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964207596172907537.post-27444566145193206692018-10-02T05:30:00.000+10:002018-10-02T05:30:04.201+10:002019 MULTIFAITH CALENDAR<img align="left" alt="picture" height="203" src="https://www.fastmail.com/unsafecontent/mail-attachment/f119425074u4315/%3Cf5bb33b5cb071b86dfb99bf702d33290%3E/?u=44434145#cidref=cid%3Af5bb33b5cb071b86dfb99bf702d33290" style="border: 1px solid; color: #8a8a8a; float: left; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 203px; margin: 10px; max-width: 600px !important; width: 200px;" width="200" /><br />
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Australia has been going through a great deal of political turmoil lately ... or should I say that the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Party_of_Australia">Liberal Party of Australia</a>, currently the political party of government, has been going through a great deal of turmoil lately. <br />
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There is a new Prime Minister, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Morrison">Scott Morriso</a>n commonly referred to as ScoMo. Sco-Mo is a Pentecostal Christian - which is a bit of a shock for most Australians - and he wears his religion on his sleeve. For most of Australia's political history, the Prime Ministers from the Liberal Party would usually be Anglican, Presbyterian or Methodist. Malcolm Turnbull, who ScoMo recently ousted, is a Catholic convert ... although his wife, Lucy, is from a Catholic blue-blood family.<br />
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So there is an<a href="https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/i-want-my-child-to-be-moses-not-mary-in-the-school-play-20180908-p502kg.html"> interesting article in the Fairfax papers today giving rise to the question - Religion or Culture</a>. The write of the article says there is a difference. In addition to the points made, Australians have always considered themselves a secular nation without national adherence to one particular religion. However, the reality was that most Australians, if pressed, would nominate a religion even if they never darkened the door of a church or were "Easter and Christmas" Christians. <br />
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Along with all this, Australia has always thought of itself as the nation of the "<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fair_go">fair go</a>". <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Patriots_Front">This concept has been sorely tested in recent times</a> with the influx of people from the African continent. <br />
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<i>Editor's Note: When I was growing up in 1950s Australia, there was no such concept as "interfaith" - and there was not the dispersion of faiths that there is to-day. Even Christians found it difficult to collaborate with one another. </i>Brigidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07862531789968068093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964207596172907537.post-60171746283968627062018-09-08T13:34:00.001+10:002018-09-08T13:34:40.255+10:00From The Golden Sufi Center: Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations --- available now on Podcast<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="templateContainer" style="background-color: #fff7d8; border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); color: black; width: 600px;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Oné gloomy fall day in the early 1980s, I was on a tour of the infamous toxic waste dump in Love Canal, New York, with government officials from Canada and the United States. The dump’s contaminants were leaking into the Niagara River, and hence into Lake Ontario, the source of drinking water for 40 million Americans and Canadians. Needless to say, this was causing widespread alarm on both sides of the border, and, as an environmental policy analyst for the city of Toronto, my job was to prepare an appropriate response for the city council.</span></span></div>
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US ends funding to UN Palestinian refugee aid agency, following up on Trump threat</h1>
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<a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-17/us-withholds-82-million-palestian-aid-after-donald-trump-threat/9335108" style="color: #310099; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 0.9167em; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; word-wrap: break-word;">RELATED STORY:</span> US withholds $82 million in Palestinian aid after Trump threat</a></div>
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The United States has halted all funding to a UN agency that helps Palestinian refugees, in a move likely to further heighten tensions between the Palestinians and the Trump administration.</div>
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US State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said the business model and fiscal practices of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) were an "irredeemably flawed operation."</div>
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"The administration has carefully reviewed the issue and determined that the United States will not make additional contributions to UNRWA," she said in a statement.</div>
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Ms Nauert said the agency's, "endlessly and exponentially expanding community of entitled beneficiaries is simply unsustainable and has been in crisis mode for many years."</div>
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UNRWA rejected the criticisms, with spokesman Chris Gunness describing it as "a force for regional stability".</div>
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Speaking in Jordan, where more than 2 million registered Palestinian refugees live, including 370,000 in 10 refugee camps, Mr Gunness said: "It is a deeply regrettable decision … some of the most disadvantaged, marginalised and vulnerable people on this planet are likely to suffer."</div>
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<span style="color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bolder; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-align: inherit;">2018 VICTORIAN INTERFAITH NETWORKS CONFERENCE: REGISTRATION NOW OPEN</span></h2>
<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #d6833a; font-weight: bold;">Registration is now open for the 2018 Victorian Interfaith Networks Conference to be held Sunday, November 18th 2018 @ St. Albans Community Centre.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://faithvictoria.org.au/index.php?subid=862&option=com_acymailing&ctrl=url&urlid=1252&mailid=810" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: none; color: #fca43a; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="read more" height="30" src="https://www.fastmail.com/unsafecontent/mail-attachment/f119425074u4147/%3Ca69293731193e140a0f374a02e7b9df0%3E/?u=44434145#cidref=cid%3Aa69293731193e140a0f374a02e7b9df0" style="border: none; height: auto !important; max-width: 600px !important;" width="114" /></a></td></tr>
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<span style="color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bolder; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-align: inherit;">MEHREEN FARUQI TO BECOME FIRST FEMALE MUSLIM SENATOR AMID FRASER ANNING OUTRAGE</span></h2>
<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #d6833a; font-weight: bold;">Mehreen Faruqi, who will on Wednesday become Australia’s first female Muslim senator, has slammed Fraser Anning as a “merchant of hate” who has “spat in the face of our successful multicultural society”.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://faithvictoria.org.au/index.php?subid=862&option=com_acymailing&ctrl=url&urlid=2624&mailid=810" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: none; color: #fca43a; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="read more" height="30" src="https://www.fastmail.com/unsafecontent/mail-attachment/f119425074u4147/%3Ca69293731193e140a0f374a02e7b9df0%3E/?u=44434145#cidref=cid%3Aa69293731193e140a0f374a02e7b9df0" style="border: none; height: auto !important; max-width: 600px !important;" width="114" /></a></td></tr>
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<span style="color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bolder; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-align: inherit;">A FAITH COMMUNITIES PERSPECTIVE ON THE ISSUE OF REFUGEES IN MANUS AND NAURU</span></h2>
<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #d6833a; font-weight: bold;">There are around 1,650 asylum seekers and refugees, adults and children, currently in Manus and Nauru. These are people who arrived by boat after 19th July 2013 and are still awaiting resettlement.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://faithvictoria.org.au/news-a-articles/698-a-faith-communities-perspective-on-the-issue-of-refugees-in-manus-and-nauru?acm=862_810" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: none; color: #fca43a; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="read more" height="30" src="https://www.fastmail.com/unsafecontent/mail-attachment/f119425074u4147/%3Ca69293731193e140a0f374a02e7b9df0%3E/?u=44434145#cidref=cid%3Aa69293731193e140a0f374a02e7b9df0" style="border: none; height: auto !important; max-width: 600px !important;" width="114" /></a></td></tr>
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<span style="color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bolder; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-align: inherit;">AUSTRALIA'S DROUGHT CRISIS: SIKH FARMERS FIGHT TO SAVE THEIR CROPS</span></h2>
<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #d6833a; font-weight: bold;">On the New South Wales mid north coast, time is running out for a group of farmers from the Sikh community to save their crops.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://faithvictoria.org.au/index.php?subid=862&option=com_acymailing&ctrl=url&urlid=2625&mailid=810" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: none; color: #fca43a; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="read more" height="30" src="https://www.fastmail.com/unsafecontent/mail-attachment/f119425074u4147/%3Ca69293731193e140a0f374a02e7b9df0%3E/?u=44434145#cidref=cid%3Aa69293731193e140a0f374a02e7b9df0" style="border: none; height: auto !important; max-width: 600px !important;" width="114" /></a></td></tr>
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<span style="color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bolder; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-align: inherit;">NEW JEWISH WAR MEMORIAL UNVEILED IN CANBERRA</span></h2>
<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #d6833a; font-weight: bold;">A new national war memorial has been unveiled to remember the 341 Jewish servicemen who laid down their lives fighting for Australia, 100 years to the day since Monash was knighted on the battlefield.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://faithvictoria.org.au/index.php?subid=862&option=com_acymailing&ctrl=url&urlid=2626&mailid=810" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: none; color: #fca43a; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="read more" height="30" src="https://www.fastmail.com/unsafecontent/mail-attachment/f119425074u4147/%3Ca69293731193e140a0f374a02e7b9df0%3E/?u=44434145#cidref=cid%3Aa69293731193e140a0f374a02e7b9df0" style="border: none; height: auto !important; max-width: 600px !important;" width="114" /></a></td></tr>
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<span style="color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bolder; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-align: inherit;">LIVING THE CHANGE: FAITHFUL CHOICES FOR A FLOURISHING WORLD</span></h2>
<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #d6833a; font-weight: bold;">For those who have not heard, a diverse range of faith communities around the world are awakening to a fresh opportunity to help create a safer climate future.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://faithvictoria.org.au/news-a-articles/697-living-the-change-launches-online-commitment-tool?acm=862_810" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: none; color: #fca43a; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="read more" height="30" src="https://www.fastmail.com/unsafecontent/mail-attachment/f119425074u4147/%3Ca69293731193e140a0f374a02e7b9df0%3E/?u=44434145#cidref=cid%3Aa69293731193e140a0f374a02e7b9df0" style="border: none; height: auto !important; max-width: 600px !important;" width="114" /></a></td></tr>
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<span style="color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bolder; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-align: inherit;">UNIONS SEEK TO END RELIGIOUS BODIES' RIGHT TO DISCRIMINATE IN HIRING</span></h2>
<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #d6833a; font-weight: bold;">Australia’s union movement will lobby for churches and other religious organisations to lose the legal right to fire some workers on the basis of their sexuality or gender identity.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://faithvictoria.org.au/index.php?subid=862&option=com_acymailing&ctrl=url&urlid=2627&mailid=810" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: none; color: #fca43a; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="read more" height="30" src="https://www.fastmail.com/unsafecontent/mail-attachment/f119425074u4147/%3Ca69293731193e140a0f374a02e7b9df0%3E/?u=44434145#cidref=cid%3Aa69293731193e140a0f374a02e7b9df0" style="border: none; height: auto !important; max-width: 600px !important;" width="114" /></a></td></tr>
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<span style="color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bolder; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-align: inherit;">SCOTT MORRISON - AUSTRALIA'S FIRST PENTECOSTAL PRIME MINISTER</span></h2>
<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #d6833a; font-weight: bold;">Australia has its first Pentecostal Prime Minister with Scott Morrison elected Liberal Party leader and Prime Minister of Australia.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://faithvictoria.org.au/index.php?subid=862&option=com_acymailing&ctrl=url&urlid=2628&mailid=810" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: none; color: #fca43a; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="read more" height="30" src="https://www.fastmail.com/unsafecontent/mail-attachment/f119425074u4147/%3Ca69293731193e140a0f374a02e7b9df0%3E/?u=44434145#cidref=cid%3Aa69293731193e140a0f374a02e7b9df0" style="border: none; height: auto !important; max-width: 600px !important;" width="114" /></a></td></tr>
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<span style="color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bolder; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-align: inherit;">LORD IT'S COLD OUTSIDE: THE HOMELESS PEOPLE SLEEPING IN CHURCHES</span></h2>
<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #d6833a; font-weight: bold;">It's 7pm on a Wednesday and, good Lord, it's cold in the Melbourne suburb of Heathmont. If Glenn wasn’t sleeping inside (the heated) Heathmont Baptist Church tonight, he would be shivering in a pitch-black Vermont water tunnel.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://faithvictoria.org.au/index.php?subid=862&option=com_acymailing&ctrl=url&urlid=2637&mailid=810" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: none; color: #fca43a; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="read more" height="30" src="https://www.fastmail.com/unsafecontent/mail-attachment/f119425074u4147/%3Ca69293731193e140a0f374a02e7b9df0%3E/?u=44434145#cidref=cid%3Aa69293731193e140a0f374a02e7b9df0" style="border: none; height: auto !important; max-width: 600px !important;" width="114" /></a></td></tr>
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<span style="color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bolder; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-align: inherit;">THE KORAN VERSE SPLITTING IMAMS ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE</span></h2>
<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #d6833a; font-weight: bold;">Some imams in Australia still teach that the Koran permits husbands to beat their wives, with police reporting Muslim men are citing scripture to justify abuse. Now a new generation of faith leaders is working to undo the damage.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://faithvictoria.org.au/index.php?subid=862&option=com_acymailing&ctrl=url&urlid=2638&mailid=810" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: none; color: #fca43a; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="read more" height="30" src="https://www.fastmail.com/unsafecontent/mail-attachment/f119425074u4147/%3Ca69293731193e140a0f374a02e7b9df0%3E/?u=44434145#cidref=cid%3Aa69293731193e140a0f374a02e7b9df0" style="border: none; height: auto !important; max-width: 600px !important;" width="114" /></a></td></tr>
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<span style="color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bolder; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-align: inherit;">2018 NATIONAL RELIGIOUS SHORT FILM PRIZE WINNER ANNOUNCED</span></h2>
<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #d6833a; font-weight: bold;">Charles Sturt University (Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture) announced the winners of the 2018 Religious Short Film Prize at a special ceremony in Canberra on Wednesday 8 August.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://faithvictoria.org.au/index.php?subid=862&option=com_acymailing&ctrl=url&urlid=2629&mailid=810" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: none; color: #fca43a; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="read more" height="30" src="https://www.fastmail.com/unsafecontent/mail-attachment/f119425074u4147/%3Ca69293731193e140a0f374a02e7b9df0%3E/?u=44434145#cidref=cid%3Aa69293731193e140a0f374a02e7b9df0" style="border: none; height: auto !important; max-width: 600px !important;" width="114" /></a></td></tr>
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<span style="color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bolder; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-align: inherit;">BENEDICTINE ORDER TO JOIN BUDDHISTS AS SOUTHERN TASMANIA TO BECOME HUB OF MONK BUSINESS</span></h2>
<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #d6833a; font-weight: bold;">An order of Catholic monks famous for their six-day silent retreats and chanting have bought a property in southern Tasmania that they hope will become their new Australian base.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://faithvictoria.org.au/index.php?subid=862&option=com_acymailing&ctrl=url&urlid=2630&mailid=810" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: none; color: #fca43a; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="read more" height="30" src="https://www.fastmail.com/unsafecontent/mail-attachment/f119425074u4147/%3Ca69293731193e140a0f374a02e7b9df0%3E/?u=44434145#cidref=cid%3Aa69293731193e140a0f374a02e7b9df0" style="border: none; height: auto !important; max-width: 600px !important;" width="114" /></a></td></tr>
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<span style="color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bolder; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-align: inherit;">SWEDEN MUSLIM WOMAN WHO REFUSED HANDSHAKE AT JOB INTERVIEW WINS CASE</span></h2>
<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #d6833a; font-weight: bold;">A Swedish Muslim woman has won compensation after her job interview was ended when she refused a handshake.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://faithvictoria.org.au/index.php?subid=862&option=com_acymailing&ctrl=url&urlid=2631&mailid=810" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: none; color: #fca43a; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="read more" height="30" src="https://www.fastmail.com/unsafecontent/mail-attachment/f119425074u4147/%3Ca69293731193e140a0f374a02e7b9df0%3E/?u=44434145#cidref=cid%3Aa69293731193e140a0f374a02e7b9df0" style="border: none; height: auto !important; max-width: 600px !important;" width="114" /></a></td></tr>
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<span style="color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bolder; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-align: inherit;">POPE FRANCIS CONDEMNS CHURCH SEX ABUSE IN RESPONSE TO NEW REVELATIONS IN US</span></h2>
<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #d6833a; font-weight: bold;">Pope Francis has issued a letter to Catholics around the world condemning the "crime" of sexual abuse committed by priests and demanding accountability.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://faithvictoria.org.au/index.php?subid=862&option=com_acymailing&ctrl=url&urlid=2632&mailid=810" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: none; color: #fca43a; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="read more" height="30" src="https://www.fastmail.com/unsafecontent/mail-attachment/f119425074u4147/%3Ca69293731193e140a0f374a02e7b9df0%3E/?u=44434145#cidref=cid%3Aa69293731193e140a0f374a02e7b9df0" style="border: none; height: auto !important; max-width: 600px !important;" width="114" /></a></td></tr>
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<span style="color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bolder; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-align: inherit;">THAI CAVE RESCUE: RESCUED BOYS COMPLETE TIME AS NOVICE BUDDHIST MONKS</span></h2>
<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #d6833a; font-weight: bold;">With their heads bowed and wearing orange robes, the members of the boys' soccer team rescued from almost three weeks trapped in a cave in northern Thailand have completed their time as novice Buddhist monks. </span><br /><br /><a href="http://faithvictoria.org.au/index.php?subid=862&option=com_acymailing&ctrl=url&urlid=2633&mailid=810" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: none; color: #fca43a; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="read more" height="30" src="https://www.fastmail.com/unsafecontent/mail-attachment/f119425074u4147/%3Ca69293731193e140a0f374a02e7b9df0%3E/?u=44434145#cidref=cid%3Aa69293731193e140a0f374a02e7b9df0" style="border: none; height: auto !important; max-width: 600px !important;" width="114" /></a></td></tr>
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<span style="color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bolder; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-align: inherit;">HOW ONE MOVIE IS SPARKING A CONVERSATION ON BEING BAHA'I: AN INTERVIEW WITH ‘THE GATE’ DOCUMENTARY CREATORS</span></h2>
<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #d6833a; font-weight: bold;">Ask most people what the Bahá’í faith is, and you will get puzzled looks. It is one of the relatively newer religions and has around five million members around the world. The documentary 'The Gate' is trying to change that. </span><br /><br /><a href="http://faithvictoria.org.au/index.php?subid=862&option=com_acymailing&ctrl=url&urlid=2634&mailid=810" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: none; color: #fca43a; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="read more" height="30" src="https://www.fastmail.com/unsafecontent/mail-attachment/f119425074u4147/%3Ca69293731193e140a0f374a02e7b9df0%3E/?u=44434145#cidref=cid%3Aa69293731193e140a0f374a02e7b9df0" style="border: none; height: auto !important; max-width: 600px !important;" width="114" /></a></td></tr>
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Brigidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07862531789968068093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964207596172907537.post-38040892824373809582018-08-31T11:28:00.002+10:002018-08-31T11:36:54.374+10:00Who were welcome, who were not welcome at the funeral of Republican Senator John McCain in the USA<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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And those are just a few of the tributes in the Phoenix portion of John McCain's nearly week-long memorial services. Intentional or not, the late Arizona senator and his family have put together, right down to Saturday's gospel reading at Washington National Cathedral, a set of services that will serve as a symbolic final rebuke of Trump and his presidency.</div>
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By the time McCain is buried on Sunday at the US Naval Academy, the parade of those paying tribute to the 2008 GOP presidential nominee will include two ex-presidents who have publicly feuded with Trump; a Russian dissident; a former GOP senator who disavowed Trump near the end of his 2016 campaign; and the former mayor of Trump's hometown who is actively supporting Democrats this fall.</div>
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McCain had a large input into the services as he slowly lost his battle with brain cancer over the last six months, giving him time to reach out to former presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama to ask them to give eulogies at Saturday's service.</div>
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Those two have periodically opposed Trump's policies, particularly when his administration was separating migrant families at the border. The Bush family, like the McCains this week, declined to invite Trump to the funeral for the late first lady Barbara Bush earlier this year.</div>
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Brigidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07862531789968068093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964207596172907537.post-1805481716761891572018-08-31T10:57:00.000+10:002018-08-31T10:57:48.134+10:00Sister TeresaClare of the Nazareth House Sisters --- from Vietnam to Victoria<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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