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Gas deal in PNG southern highlands creates source of tension for locals

UnitingWorld Associate Director for Peacemaking, Ms Joy Balazo, is planning several additional workshops in the region to prevent further destructive conflict as a result of the deal..

  • AIS Respite visit to young athletes - 18 years on

    The 2010 Athlete & Coach Respite Ministry program of Well-Being Australia continued this past week, with chairman Mark Tronson making a scheduled visit to the Australian Institute of Sport Cricket Centre of Excellence in Brisbane. The young AIS cricketers came to the Cricket Unit after Easter and will return to their States in August.

  • Australian students challenge refugee stereotypes

    Australian schools, parishes and youth groups are being encouraged to engage young people in the contentious debate around refugee and asylum seekers.

  • IPTV helps mission 'Art' fund raising

    LA based Australian businessman, Alan Metcalfe is in the throws of marketing an exciting new form of internet communication known as "Safeworlds." Safeworlds is part of the new IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) phenomenon, in other words pay TV on the net. One of the up and coming coming channels launched on Safeworlds is the Christian station, \'Faith Hope and Charity\'.

  • Cricket Ministry Series No. 8 - Relationships are paramount in finding solutions

    Cricket chaplain of 26 years Mark Tronson, a Baptist minister and Well-Being Australia chairman, retired at the end of 2000 after 17 years as the Australian Cricket Team chaplain, and stepped sideways to Life After Cricket.

  • Budget: 'a restraint too far'

    "While additional funding for the training of aged care nursing staff is welcome, the funding gap that continues to make residential aged care unsustainable remains", says ANGLICARE Sydney CEO Peter Kell.

  • Somebody Cares to train Haitian leaders

    Dr. Doug Stringer of Somebody Cares International Brings Persevering Leadership Training to Port-au-Prince.

  • Cricket Series 7 - Cricket Ministry is all year round

    Cricket chaplain of 26 years Mark Tronson, a Baptist minister and Well-Being Australia chairman, retired at the end of 2000 after 17 years as the Australian Cricket Team chaplain, and stepped sideways to Life After Cricket.

  • The glue that makes us stick together

    Marriages and families are under intense attack in our society today. Our marriage breakdown rate puts Australia in the worst four percent of countries in the world. When marriages break down it is the children who suffer.

  • Aid Budget increase will help our global neighbours

    The Micah Challenge coalition has welcomed the much needed aid budget increase in the 2010/11 Federal Budget announced last night.

  • Confusion over aid budget but we take Prime Minister at his word

    Development agency World Vision Australia last night noted reports suggesting $1 billion had been cut from the foreign aid budget but believes this is a misunderstanding of the government's intention.

  • Rick Warren puts spotlight on orphan crisis, Biblical mandate

    Dr. Russell D. Moore could remember the time he went to pick up two children from an orphanage to bring into his family.