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SUMMARY:World Password Day
DESCRIPTION:In his 2005 book Perfect Passwords\, security researcher Mark Burnett encourages people to have a ‘password day’ when thy would update important passwords. Intel Security took up the idea in May 2013 and promoted World Password Day. The day is intended to create awareness of the need for good password security and it is observed on the first Thursday of May. \n\n\n\nHere are some activities for marking World Password Day: \n\n\n\nchange your passwords – tips for creating strong passwords can be found herelayer up and implement multi-factor authentication for your important accounts – learn about layered security herelearn about using password managersmake sure your family and friends understand what makes a strong password.
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/world-password-day/
CATEGORIES:UN International
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200508T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200508T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T104607
CREATED:20200228T051218Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200228T051220Z
UID:1479-1588896000-1588982399@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/world-red-cross-and-red-crescent-day/
CATEGORIES:UN International
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200508T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200508T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T104607
CREATED:20200228T051346Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200228T051349Z
UID:1483-1588896000-1588982399@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:1970: First anti-Vietnam War Moratorium march in Australia
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/1970-first-anti-vietnam-war-moratorium-march-in-australia/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200508T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200508T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T104607
CREATED:20200228T051507Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200228T051510Z
UID:1487-1588896000-1588982399@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:1997: Wik 'Ten Point Plan' to extinguish native title announced
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/1997-wik-ten-point-plan-to-extinguish-native-title-announced/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200509T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200509T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T104607
CREATED:20200228T051608Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200228T051611Z
UID:1491-1588982400-1589068799@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:World Fair Trade Day
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/world-fair-trade-day/
CATEGORIES:UN International
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200514T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200514T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T104607
CREATED:20200228T051841Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200228T051844Z
UID:1497-1589414400-1589500799@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:1971: Paul VI's Apostolic Letter Octogesima Adveniens (A Call to Action)
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/1971-paul-vis-apostolic-letter-octogesima-adveniens-a-call-to-action/
CATEGORIES:Liturgy & Church
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200515T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200515T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T104607
CREATED:20200228T051947Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200429T025746Z
UID:1501-1589500800-1589587199@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:International Day of Families
DESCRIPTION:The following reflection is from Andy Hamilton SJ. Andy is an Australian Jesuit\, Consulting Editor of Eureka Street\, Editorial Consultant to Australian Catholics\, and a member of the communications team at Jesuit Social Services. \n\n\n\nThe coronavirus has put enormous pressures on all of us as persons\, and on the groups and institutions to which we belong. It has been an affliction. The response to the measures taken to address it has been mixed. Sometimes it has been narrow and divisive\, but more generally it has been extraordinarily good-willed\, generous and patient. It has opened out to a far broader and balanced conversation about other areas of life that have been affected by the virus. One of these is the family. World Family Day invites us to reflect inclusively and with broad sympathy on the family.  \n\n\n\nReflection on the family is often conducted along narrow lines in which we are tempted to focus on one set of relationships and so neglect other relationships that are equally important for healthy family life. The family\, for example\, may be seen as a stable relationship\, recognised as a marriage by state and church\, between mother and father and the children they have borne together. Many people will rightly celebrate this as the Catholic ideal of a good marriage. \n\n\n\nOthers will appeal to dysfunctional families in dismissing this as a primitive and coercive form of association that inhibits individual growth. They might emphasise the freedom of the individuals involved as central to the family. Discussions about the family will then turn to which forms of relationship justify the name of family\, and which are better. These are important questions\, but they are not the questions asked first by people living with the daily challenges and opportunities of family life. \n\n\n\nThe consequences of coronavirus have made us attentive to the complexity and breadth of the relationships involved in families which struggle under its burdens. The economic and social changes brought by the virus have shown\, for example\, the consequences for the family of relationships involved in losing casual work\, in working from home\, in the expectation that all adult members of a family will work\, in schooling\, in recreation\, staying in touch with extended family and friends\, and educational institutions\, of relationships with sport\, television and social media\, and in a house design that offers both common and personal space. \n\n\n\n After coronavirus the way in which these relationships have been shaped can no longer be taken for granted. We shall have experience of the disadvantages and advantages of other shapes we may not have considered.  The merits of working from home and of home schooling will be considered as real possibilities of which we have experience and not simply as abstract ideas.    \n\n\n\nWe shall see more clearly\, too\, how tightly the internal relationships within our families are connected to broader relationships with society. We shall have noticed how pressures of living together in a narrow space can be reflected in family violence and in mental illness. We shall find it difficult to reflect on the inner life of families without setting them against the social conditions in which they live. We shall know that if we wish to address antisocial behaviour we shall have to take account of the social problems that give birth to it. \n\n\n\nAt Jesuit Social Services we work with young people from families which have been disadvantaged. This has often reflected lacks in the way our society cares for families. \n\n\n\nWorld family day is a time to celebrate the generosity and goodness displayed in families\, and the resilience that finds life in the most unfavourable circumstances. It is also a day to ask how as a society we can best to accompany families as they prepare children for a full and generous life.   
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/international-day-of-families/
CATEGORIES:UN International
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200515T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200515T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T104607
CREATED:20200228T052633Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210602T022944Z
UID:1505-1589500800-1589587199@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:1891: Leo XIII's encyclical Rerum Novarum (On the Condition of the Working Classes)
DESCRIPTION:The Red Vineyard – Vincent Van Gogh\n\n\n\n\n\nRerum Novarum was a groundbreaking encyclical from Pope Leo Xlll in 1891 that laid the foundation for modern Catholic Social Teaching. It directly took up the issue of the dignity and rights of workers in a rapidly changing world where industrialisation had created an ever widening gap between the materially rich and the working poor. Rerum Novarum offered a just way forward for employers and workers\, naming human rights in every workplace as foundational for a just society. The encyclical emphatically stated that moral virtue was central to authentic Christian life. This includes just work policies and practices:  \n\n\n\n“…..it is more easy to understand that the true worth and nobility of man lie in his moral qualities\, that is\, in virtue; that virtue is\, moreover\, the common inheritance of men\, equally within the reach of high and low\, rich and poor; and that virtue\, and virtue alone\, wherever found\, will be followed by the rewards of everlasting happiness.”  Rerum Novarum #24\n\n\n\nTo view the Encyclical: \n\n\n\nhttp://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_15051891_rerum-novarum.html   \n\n\n\nTo find out more about Catholic Social Teaching: \n\n\n\n\nCatholic Social Teaching an Introduction\n\n\n\n\nPrayer for Workers: \n\n\n\nDignity of Work and the Rights of Workers \n\n\n\nLord God\, Master of the Vineyard\,How wonderful that you have invited uswho labor by the sweat of our browto be workers in the vineyardand assist your workto shape the world around us. \n\n\n\nAs we seek to respond to this call\,make us attentive to those who seek workbut cannot find it. \n\n\n\nHelp us listen to the struggles of thosewho work hard to provide for their familiesbut still have trouble making ends meet. \n\n\n\nOpen our eyes to the struggles of those exploitedand help us speak for just wages and safe conditions\,the freedom to organize\, and time for renewal.For work was made for humankindand not humankind for work.Let it not be a vehicle for exploitationbut a radiant expression of our human dignity. \n\n\n\nGive all who labor listening heartsthat we may pause from our workto receive your gift of rest. \n\n\n\nFill us with your Holy Spiritthat you might work through us to let your justice reign. \n\n\n\nAmen. \n\n\n\nCopyright © 2019\, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. All rights reserved. This text may be reproduced in whole or in part without alteration for nonprofit educational use\, provided such reprints are not sold and include this notice. \n\n\n\nhttps://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/prayers-and-devotions/prayers/dignity-of-work-and-the-rights-of-workers-prayer \n\n\n\nArtwork:\n\n\n\nThe Red Vineyard by Vincent Van Gogh  \n\n\n\nMusic:\n\n\n\n\n\nGod of Day and God of Darkness – Marty Haugen
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/1891-leo-xiiis-encyclical-rerum-novarum-on-the-condition-of-the-working-classes/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Liturgy & Church
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200515T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200515T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T104607
CREATED:20200228T052812Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200228T052815Z
UID:1509-1589500800-1589587199@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:1931: Pius XI's encyclical Quadragesimo Anno (Reconstruction and the Social Order)
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/1931-pius-xis-encyclical-quadragesimo-anno-reconstruction-and-the-social-order/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Liturgy & Church
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200515T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200515T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T104607
CREATED:20200228T052938Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200228T052941Z
UID:1513-1589500800-1589587199@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:1961: John XXIII's encyclical Mater et Magistra (Christianity and Social Progress)
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/1961-john-xxiiis-encyclical-mater-et-magistra-christianity-and-social-progress/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Liturgy & Church
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200516T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200516T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T104607
CREATED:20200228T053100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200228T053103Z
UID:1517-1589587200-1589673599@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:International Day of Living Together in Peace
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/international-day-of-living-together-in-peace/
CATEGORIES:UN International
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200517T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200517T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T104607
CREATED:20200228T053304Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200228T053307Z
UID:1523-1589673600-1589759999@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:World telecommunications and Information Society Day
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/world-telecommunications-and-information-society-day/
CATEGORIES:UN International
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200517T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200517T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T104607
CREATED:20200228T053410Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210112T052259Z
UID:1527-1589673600-1589759999@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:2005: Death of Fr Ted Kennedy
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/2005-death-of-fr-ted-kennedy/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian,Liturgy & Church
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200520T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200520T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T104607
CREATED:20200228T053523Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200228T053526Z
UID:1531-1589932800-1590019199@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:2002: Timor-Leste Constitution enters into force
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/2002-timor-leste-constitution-enters-into-force/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Overseas / regional
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200522T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200522T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T104607
CREATED:20200228T053832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200228T053832Z
UID:1539-1590105600-1590191999@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:International Day for Biological Diversity
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/international-day-for-biological-diversity/
CATEGORIES:UN International
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200523T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200523T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T104607
CREATED:20200306T053729Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200306T053733Z
UID:1560-1590192000-1590278399@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:International Day to End Obstetric Fistula
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/international-day-to-end-obstetric-fistula/
CATEGORIES:UN International
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200524T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200524T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T104607
CREATED:20200306T054030Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200306T054036Z
UID:1566-1590278400-1590364799@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:2015: Pope Francis' Encyclical Laudato Si' (On Care for our Common Home)
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/2015-pope-francis-encyclical-laudato-si-on-care-for-our-common-home/
CATEGORIES:Liturgy & Church
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200526T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200526T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T104607
CREATED:20200306T055344Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200306T055348Z
UID:1582-1590451200-1590537599@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:1997: Bringing Them Home Report tabled in Parliament
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/1997-bringing-them-home-report-tabled-in-parliament/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200527T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200527T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T104607
CREATED:20200306T055912Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200306T055919Z
UID:1592-1590537600-1590623999@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:1967: Referendum allows the Commonwealth to make laws for Aboriginal people and count them in the census
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/1967-referendum-allows-the-commonwealth-to-make-laws-for-aboriginal-people-and-count-them-in-the-census/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200528T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200528T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T104607
CREATED:20200306T060023Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200306T060028Z
UID:1596-1590624000-1590710399@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:2000: 250\,000 people walk for reconciliation in Sydney
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/2000-250000-people-walk-for-reconciliation-in-sydney/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200529T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200529T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T104607
CREATED:20200306T060139Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200306T060144Z
UID:1600-1590710400-1590796799@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:International Day of UN Peacekeepers
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/international-day-of-un-peacekeepers/
CATEGORIES:UN International
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200529T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200529T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T104607
CREATED:20200306T060314Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200306T060319Z
UID:1604-1590710400-1590796799@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:1992: Launch of the Torres Strait Islander Flag
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/1992-launch-of-the-torres-strait-islander-flag/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200603T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200603T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T104607
CREATED:20200318T064612Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200318T064615Z
UID:1630-1591142400-1591228799@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:1886: Catholic and Anglican Martyrs of Uganda
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/1886-catholic-and-anglican-martyrs-of-uganda/
CATEGORIES:Liturgy & Church
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200603T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200603T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T104607
CREATED:20200318T064725Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210526T072744Z
UID:1634-1591142400-1591228799@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:1992: High Court Decision in the Mabo Case
DESCRIPTION:Eddie Mabo – Marc Nemorin\n\n\n\n\n\nThis year marks the 29th anniversary of the Mabo Decision where six out of seven High Court judges agreed that the Meriam people held traditional ownership of the lands of Mer in the Torres Strait. Eddie Koiki Mabo successfully argued that his family’s ancestral land was not owned by the Crown. This landmark decision in the High Court of Australia overturned ‘terra nullius’\, an understanding that Australia was empty land belonging to no one before British occupation. The decision paved the way for native title in the Native Title Act of 1993. Eddie died before the decision was handed down in 1992 but his life leaves a powerful legacy: the traditional connection and occupation of land by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is now recognised in law across Australia.  \n\n\n\nGoing Deeper: \n\n\n\nhttps://digital-classroom.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/mabo-decision  \n\n\n\nPrayer:\n\n\n\nPrayer for Unity  \n\n\n\nCreator God\,  may the power of Your grace transform us.  \n\n\n\nChrist\, give us courage and hope to manifest the unity we have in you\, and to share our life with each other and the world.  \n\n\n\nHoly Spirit\,  empower us to work for justice for the people of the earth.  \n\n\n\nGod\, in your grace\, transform the world.  \n\n\n\nAmen.  \n\n\n\nThe National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ecumenical Commission (NATSIEC)  of the National Council of Churches in Australia (NCCA)\, 2007.  \n\n\n\nArtwork:\n\n\n\nEddie Mabo by Marc Nemorin  \n\n\n\nMusic:\n\n\n\nKoiki by Mau Power\, featuring Radical Son  \n\n\n\n\n\nKoiki by Mau Power\, featuring Radical Son 
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/1992-high-court-decision-in-the-mabo-case/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200604T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200604T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T104608
CREATED:20200318T064850Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200318T064853Z
UID:1638-1591228800-1591315199@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/international-day-of-innocent-children-victims-of-aggression/
CATEGORIES:UN International
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200604T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200604T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T104608
CREATED:20200318T065028Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210603T124543Z
UID:1642-1591228800-1591315199@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:1989: Tiananmen Square Massacre\, Bejing
DESCRIPTION:Today we remember the students who were killed in Tiananmen Square while protesting for democracy. For last year’s anniversary\, Hong Kong Catholics organised an exhibition so that younger generations may gain insight into what happened. Find our more here. \n\n\n\nLearn about the iconic image of a lone unarmed man confronting a row of tanks here. \n\n\n\nThe Tank Man\n\n\n\nHe will live forever in our memories. \nHis singular act of courage and hope\nproclaimed the dignity of each person\nin the face of powers and principalities.\n\nGod grant us his courage and his hope.\n\nSandie Cornish
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/1989-tiananmen-square-massacre-bejing/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Overseas / regional
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200604T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200604T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T104608
CREATED:20200318T065145Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210112T052756Z
UID:1646-1591228800-1591315199@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:2000: 50\,000 people Walk for Reconciliation in Brisbane
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/2000-50000-people-walk-for-reconciliation-in-brisbane/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200605T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200605T235900
DTSTAMP:20260404T104608
CREATED:20200318T065244Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200420T053738Z
UID:1650-1591315200-1591401540@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:World Environment Day
DESCRIPTION:Celebrated every year since 1974\, World Environment Day is a good time to focus on the environmental dimensions of the Sustainable Development Goals. This year the theme is celebrating biodiversity. \n\n\n\nThe 2020 World Environment Day global campaign aims at highlighting how we as humans are inextricably linked to and depend on nature for our existence and quality of life. Recent events\, from bushfires in Brazil\, United States and Australia to locust swarms to the COVID-19 outbreak\, highlights how meddling with ecosystems and biodiversity from its natural state is creating unprecedented challenges for humankind on a global scale. Human activities such as pollution\, unsustainable use of land and sea\, exploitation of organisms\, climate change and invasion of alien species\, are leading to biodiversity breakdown and the decline and degradation of natural ecosystems at an unprecedented scale. The crisis also reflects our connectedness to one another and how actions and events in one part of the world affect us all. It also brings to the spotlight the need for international cooperation and coordination in responding to the challenges posed by environmental degradation. Yet\, these events are symptomatic and require us to address the decline of nature through transformational and sustained reforms with nature at the heart of decision-making. This World Environment Day\, the need to heal our relationship and start living in harmony with nature\, perhaps\, has never been this stark in modern history. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is calling on governments\, businesses and civil society to work together in building global understanding of biodiversity and nature’s key contribution to our survival… 2020 is a critical year for biodiversity. It’s a year of crucial decisions for planet and people\, and all other forms of life on Earth. While 2020 also concludes the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity\, the scientific community continues to sound the alarm on global biodiversity breakdown. Living in harmony with nature—a goal world leaders have set for 2050—cannot be achieved unless we stop the loss of the planet’s biodiversity by 2030. This leaves us with a decade for action\, which will start with the 2020 United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity in October in Kunming\, China and the design of a new 10-year framework for biodiversity.  UN Environment Program\, Working Brief\, 6 April 2020
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/world-environment-day/
CATEGORIES:UN International
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200608T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200608T235900
DTSTAMP:20260404T104608
CREATED:20200330T024454Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200330T024458Z
UID:1713-1591574400-1591660740@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:World Oceans Day
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URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/world-oceans-day/
CATEGORIES:UN International
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200608T000000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20200608T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T104608
CREATED:20200331T053828Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200525T052009Z
UID:1725-1591574400-1591660799@socialjustice.catholic.org.au
SUMMARY:2004: Queensland Bishops issue 'Let the Many Coastlands be glad!' Pastoral Letter on the Great Barrier Reef
DESCRIPTION:“The Holy Spirit is clearly guiding us into a deeper sense ofcompanionship and care in regard to all the varied forms of life onplanet Earth. Not only is the Reef a precious ecosystem in itself\, but alsoan integral part of the one web of planetary life that connects us all –the human species and all species of the land and sea\, rainforest andreef\, mountains\, plains and inland desert.” Catholic Bishops of Queensland\, Let the Many Coastlands be Glad!\, 2004\n\n\n\nToday is a great day to read Let the Many Coastlands Be Glad! again. \n\n\n\nFor Reflection\n\n\n\nImagine you were helping the Queensland Bishops to draft a pastoral letter on the Great Barrier Reef today. What has changed for the Great Barrier Reef since Let the Many Coastlands Be Glad! was published? Are there new issues to address? How might you take the teaching of Pope Francis into account in updating the Queensland Bishops’ teaching?
URL:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/event/2004-queensland-bishops-issue-let-the-many-coastlands-be-glad-pastoral-letter-on-the-great-barrier-reef/
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Australian,Liturgy & Church
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/OSJ-SJC-202004-great-barrier-reef.jpg
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