- Australia Day Indigenous Invasion/Survival Day
- Aboriginal Tent Embassy
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Feasts Festivals and Anniversaries in the Year 2007 that invite us live justly, love tenderly and walk humbly with our God (Micah 6:8)
Liturgical Calendar available here
The
Practice of Jesus
Commentaries on the readings for the
Sundays & holy days of the year of Luke.
Calendar of Cultural and Religious Dates here
January
| 1 | World Day of Peace Message | |
| 3 | Grameen Bank set up in Bangladesh 1977 | |
| 4 | Elizabeth Ann Seton | |
| 17 | Martin Luther King Day | |
| 18 | Chinese New Year (Confucian/Daoist/Buddhist) | |
| 21 | World Hug Day (Peace Initiative) | |
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| 30 | Ghandi Day | |
| 31 | 1865- Congress passes 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery in US |
| 2 | World Wetlands Day |
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| 4 | Manche Masemola | |
| 6 | Waitangi Day (New Zealand) | |
| 7 | Birthday of Frederick Douglass (1817), non-violent advocate for the rights of African Americans. | |
| 11 | World Day of the Sick | |
| 12 | Janani Luwum | |
| 15 | Birthday of Susan B. Anthony (1820), non-violent advocate for the rights of women and African Americans | |
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| 8 | International Women's Day | |
| 12 | 1921 Edith Cowen becomes Australia's first woman MP | |
| 15 | World Consumer Rights Day | |
| 20 | World Day of Planetary Consciousness | |
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| 22 | World Day for Water | |
| 23 | World Meteorological Day | |
| 24 | 1980: Martyrdom of Oscar Romero Westminster Abbey Memorial | |
| 25 | Memorial of Caroline Chisholm | |
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| 29 | 1901: First Federal Election held | |
| 31 | 1959: Expulsion of His Holiness, the Dalai Lama by the Chinese |
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| 2 | Anniversary of Death of Pope John Paul 11 |
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| 4 | Martin Luther King. Jr1968 | |
| 6 | Good Friday | |
| 7 | World Health Day | |
| 8 | Easter Sunday | |
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| 12 | Holocaust Remembrance Day | |
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| 18 | World Heritage Day | |
| 19 | Election of Benedict XV1 | |
| 22 | Earth Day | |
| 24 | World Book and Copyright Day | |
| 25 | ANZAC Day | |
| 26 | Bishop Gerardi murdered Guatamala 1997 | |
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“Evangelization in Modern Day Asia,” First Plenary Assembly of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences, 1974 |
| 1 | International Workers Day Feast of St Joseph the Worker |
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| 2 | Paulo Freire (1921-1997) | |
| 3 | World Press Freedom Day | |
| 8 | 1876: Death of Truganini in Tasmania | |
| 14-20 | National Volunteers Week | |
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| 26 | Journey of Healing (National Day of healing) | |
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| 31 | World No-Tobacco Day |
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| 5 | World Environment Day | |
| 11 | Racial Discrimination Act (AUST) 1975 | |
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| 16 | International Day of the African Child | |
| 17 | World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought | |
| 17-24 | Simply Sharing Week | |
| 19 | Equal Pay for Women in Australia 1969 | |
| 20 | World Refugee Day | |
| 23 | United Nations Public Service Day | |
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July| 1 | International Day of Cooperatives | |
| 2 | National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sunday |
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| 2-9 | NAIDOC Week | |
| 10 | Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland 1985 | |
| 11 | World Population Day | |
| 12 | Aboriginal Flag First Flown 1971 | |
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| 18 | Grand Duchess Elizabeth | |
| 21 | Lucian Tapiedi | |
| 30 | National Tree Day | |
| 4 | National Aboriginal and Islander Children's Day | ||
| 6 | Hiroshima Day | ||
| 8 | Mary MacKillop Bombing of Nagasaki (1945) | ||
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| 12 | International Youth Day | ||
| 13 | Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 | ||
| 14 | Maximilian Kolbe, Martyr of Auchwitz | ||
| 15 | World War 11 ends | ||
| 23 | International Day for Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition | ||
| 24 | 1770: James Cook effects dispossession of Indigenous people by formal possession of Australia | ||
| 25 | World Migration Day | ||
| 27 | Dom Helder Camara | ||
| 28 | Refugee and Migrant Sunday / Martin Luther King's March on Washington (1963) |
| 2 | Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation established 1991 |  |
| 5 | Death of Mother Teresa of Calcutta | |
| 7 | National Threatened Species Day | |
| 8 | International Literacy Day | |
| 11 | September 11 Commemoration | |
| 12 | Steve Biko 1977 | |
| 15 | Racial Hatred Act. Australia 1995 | |
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| 17 | Hildegarde of Bingen, I Julian of Norwich, I Meister Eckhart | |
| 18 | Memorial of Dag Hammarskjold | |
| 20 | Anniversary of Formation of World Council of Churches | |
| 21 | International Day of Peace | |
| 24 | Social Justice Sunday The Heart of Our Country Dignity and justice for our Indigenous sisters and brothers | |
| 27 | World Maritime Day | |
| 28 | Death of John Pat in Roeburne Prison WA, 1983 initiated the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody | |
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Racial Discrimination Act proclaimed Australia 1975 |
| 1 | International Day of Older Persons |
| 2 | Mahatma Ghandi born 1869 / World Habitat Day |
| 3 | Day of Jewish Christian Dialogue |
| 4 | Francis of Assisi, Patron of Ecology / World Habitat Day |
| 5 | UN World Teachers' Day |
| 9 | World Post Day / International Day for National Disaster Reduction |
| 10 | World Mental Health Day / Southern Arbor Day Qld |
| 12 | International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction |
| 15 | World Rural Women's Day |
| 15-21 | INational Water Week |
| 16-21 | Anti-Poverty Week |
| 16 | Australian journalists killed at Balibo, East Timor 1975 / World Food Day |
| 17 | International Day for Eradication of Poverty |
| 19 | SINKING OF SIEV X 2001 |
| 22-30 | Children's Week |
| 24 | World Development Information Day / United Nations Day |
| 24-30 | Disarmament Week |
| 26 | Handing back of Uluru to traditional owners 1985 |
| 27 | Universal Children's Day |
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World Community Day |
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Miguel Pro, Martyr of Mexico |
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Dorothy Day / UN Day of solidarity with the Palestinian People |
| 1 | World AIDS Day |
| 2 | International
Day for the Abolition of Slavery 1980: Jean Donovan and Companions, |
| 3 | International Day of Disabled Persons |
| 5 | International Volunteer Day |
| 7 | Proclamation of Gaudium et Spes 1965 |
| 10 | International Human Rights
Day Thomas Merton |
| 18 | International Migrants Day |
| 23 | Wik Decision 1996 |
| 25 | Christmas Day |
| 29 | Wang Zhiming International Day for Biological Diversity |
| 31 | Paid Annual Leave granted to Workers 1946 |
