The Religions for Peace IX World Assembly is postponed until as early as possible in 2013, ideally in the first half of the year. The precise dates of the Assembly are not yet determined and will be communicated as soon as they are finalized with the Government of Qatar, the Assembly host.

The Australian Human Rights Commission has been approached with a request to publicize an initiative of the Australian Homestay Network to provide short-term accommodation to asylum seekers who have been recently released from immigration detention.

The latest issue of Sultana's Dream is available for reading. It is jam packed with points of view and focal issues that have been recently taken up in the media, viz, forced marriage, for example.

Efforts by Sri Lankan Senior Religious Leaders’ to advance reconciliation and peacebuilding have been applauded by the Prime Minister of Japan.

Religion, Women and Peacebuilding - This seminar was the first in an open series designed to connect multiple stakeholders with women of faith engaged in concrete projects on the ground.

Statement of the Secretary General on the Arson Attack of the Rida Mosque and the Killing of Imam Abdallah Dadou

The Uniting Church Disability Inclusion, people interested in issues of disability inclusion within multifaith settings, has presented a report on disability in multifaith settings.

ABC TV and Roar Film are inviting six young people aged 18-23 and their families to feature in a new experiential series for ABC TV's COMPASS.

Theologies of inclusion tend to be feel good, 'nice' theologies and more importantly they promote social cohesion by providing a theological rationale for mutual respect, or at least tolerance of difference. However, there is more, writes Gary Bouma. What of an internal agenda of legitimisation?

Christians and Muslims are uniting in Nigeria to reject the violence advanced by the terrorist group, Boko Haram.

World Interfaith Harmony Celebration, Australia, 2012

World Interfaith Harmony Week seeks to spread the message of harmony and tolerance among the followers of all the world’s religions, faiths and beliefs. It seeks to do this by promoting their common basis of "Love of God and Love of the Neighbor, or Love of the Good and Love of the Neighbor". Its message includes everyone, excludes no one, and is purely voluntary.

Religions for Peace Australia has joined with several partner organisations to facilitate a World Interfaith Harmony Week event in Australia.

The event organisers have invited over 100 religious, spiritual and community leaders to a morning reception in Queen's Hall, Parliament House, Melbourne, Australia, to celebrate the second World Interfaith Harmony Week. We will celebrate by gathering together, strengthening our ties, sharing news of our interfaith activities and our future plans, through meeting new friends and creating new partnerships. The Faith Communities Council of Victoria, the Islamic Council of Victoria, the Interfaith Centre of Melbourne, and the Australian Multicultural Foundation are partners in this special event.

A recent VicHealth study showed that while religion can protect against illness, religious discrimination can harm health. This has led to a renewed call to embrace and respect religious diversity, protection of human rights and promotion of interfaith relations between religions.

Religions for Peace condemns and deplores the terrorist attacks across Nigeria which killed scores of people, with the majority dying on the steps of a Catholic Church after celebrating Christmas Mass.

This year has seen the Multifaith Association of South Australia organise many activities to promote the sharing of beliefs, rituals and customs of different faiths, and to encourage understanding and support amongst each other.

On the 16th November 2011, the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), in partnership with the Religion and Ethics Education Network Australia (REENA) convened a Roundtable on the 'Place of Religion and Ethics in the National Curriculum'.

The world’s major faith traditions – each in its own way – uphold the inviolable dignity of the human being as rooted in the Sacred. While respecting religious differences, the Restoring Dignity draws on the commitment and resources of faith congregations, institutions, communities and individual believers to bring an end to violence against women and girls. Join us to end violence and restore dignity of women.

The Religions for Peace Global Women of Faith Network, in collaboration with United Nations Women, Princeton University Office for Religious Life, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Ford Foundation, The Salvation Army International Social Justice Commission, The Committee of Religious NGOs at the United Nations and The Institute for Global Engagement, launched an ongoing seminar on “Religion, Women and Peacebuilding” on Tuesday December 6^th 2011.

Occasional address given in Hobart on 4th December, 2011 at an interfaith event organised by the Tasmanian branch of Religions for Peace Australia for Human Rights Week.

Prof. Des Cahill, Chair, Religions for Peace Australia, delivered a keynote address, From 9/11 to Breivik: Responding nationally and transnationally to the challenge of diversity and social cohesion at the University of Western Sydney Campus, Bankstown, NSW, on 9 October 2011.

Prof. Des Cahill, Chair, Religions for Peace Australia, delivered a keynote address, Creating Religious Harmony and Social Cohesion in the City of Hume at the Hume Global Learning Centre on Tuesday, 29 November 2011. Professor Cahill told that Hume has a bright future and is capable of throwing off its struggletown image.