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110-118 Grey Street, East Melbourne. The Melbourne Unitarian Peace Church.

Give peace a chance and buy a non-conforming church for $20m

Melbourne’s Unitarian Church is selling its Peace Memorial Church in East Melbourne and looking at a windfall.

  • Nicole Lindsay

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Multicultural Affairs Minister Anne Aly.

$670,000 government pledge scrapped after Dandenong mosque marked ayatollah’s death

Multicultural Affairs Minister Anne Aly revealed the federal government has cancelled the pledge due to “due to social cohesion concerns”.

  • Lachlan Abbott
Sam said the abuse left him unable to tell his children he loved them.

A nun allegedly raped Sam. Then she introduced him to another abuser

Sam says he was flogged, raped and abused at a NSW boys’ home. A landmark ruling may help him get justice.

  • Amber Schultz and Michaela Whitbourn
Evidence of the spell invoking clear weather for my Story Bridge climb.

I paid an Etsy witch to cast a spell – and it worked (I think)

With spells advertised for less than $5, I couldn’t resist, and was duly rewarded when a “weather ritual” paid off.

  • Neesha Sinnya
Edvard Munch’s The Scream expresses angst – as does the dog.

In the Bible, God can hear you scream

The Bible is very clear-eyed about the matter of human suffering; at the same time, it offers answers to despair.

  • Barney Zwartz
Pilgrims honour the bones of St Francis during the first public display inside the St Francis Basilica.

‘Gives me goosebumps’: Thousands flock to Assisi as St Francis’ bones go on display

The display caps an 800-year saga over his bodily remains and confirms the enduring appeal to Christians of venerating a saint’s relics.

  • Nicole Winfield and Gregorio Borgia
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An Australian child hoping to escape al-Roj camp in Syria on Monday, February 21.

How PM’s tough line on IS brides has left 34 women and children in no man’s land

Buried in the fine print of Anthony Albanese’s harsh words is a caveat: almost all of these people are entitled by law to come back to Australia from Syria.

  • Michael Bachelard
Malki Roth was killed in a terror attack in Jerusalem aged 15.

Arnold’s daughter died in an intifada. He says calls to globalise it are ‘madness’

The father of a Melbourne-born girl who died at 15 in a Jerusalem suicide bombing says Grace Tame’s calls to “globalise the intifada” have grim consequences.

  • Matthew Knott
The preacher’s charity OneJesus plans to build a $2.2 million luxury home.

Grand designs: Charity run by stabbed bishop plans luxury six-bedroom home

Mar Mari Emmanuel, stabbed at his pulpit nearly two years ago, directs OneJesus, a charity set up to acquire properties that are “suitable for people with special needs”.

  • Patrick Begley
Natural disasters, such as bushfires, test our faith; the response of others, such as firefighters, can restore and reinforce faith.

‘Love thy neighbour’ is seen in responses to disasters

Death and destruction can test faith; they can also make it so much stronger.

  • Jim Pilmer