{"id":3750,"date":"2015-06-05T17:56:43","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T17:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=3750"},"modified":"2015-06-05T17:56:43","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T17:56:43","slug":"christians-stand-in-solidarity-with-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islanders-by-kylie-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=3750","title":{"rendered":"Christians stand in solidarity with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders by Kylie Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/globalnation.inquirer.net\/files\/2014\/10\/Joko-widodo.jpg\"><\/a>Christians\u00a0are standing in solidarity with Aboriginals and Torres Straight Islanders\u00a0today,\u00a0as part of a National Day of Action, with over 85 rallies organised\u00a0across Australia and\u00a0overseas.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0National Day of Action was called for by the Aboriginal women of the Kimberley,\u00a0leaders of the #SOSBlakAustralia campaign, in response to statements made by WA\u00a0Premier Colin Barnett and Prime Minister Tony Abbott which threatened the\u00a0forced\u00a0closure of 150 Aboriginal homeland communities.<\/p>\n<p>Common Grace, a Christian group that describes itself as being\u00a0\u201cpassionate about\u00a0Jesus and justice,\u201d promoted the National Day of Action,\u00a0explaining that it was an\u00a0opportunity for Christians to stand with their\u00a0Aboriginal brothers and sisters.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0group encouraged Christians to take part \u201cbased on the principle of showing\u00a0love to\u00a0your neighbour\u201d and \u201cout of respect for God\u2019s original custodians of\u00a0the land.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs followers of Jesus, we know\u00a0the wonder of being reconciled to God, that Jesus died\u00a0on the cross for.\u00a0But\u00a0we also know that reconciliation doesn\u2019t come cheap,\u201d said\u00a0Brooke Prentis,\u00a0Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander campaigner for Common\u00a0Grace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRepentance always requires change. A policy of\u00a0forced closure of Aboriginal homeland\u00a0communities simply repeats the past,\u201d\u00a0says Ms Prentis.<\/p>\n<p>Common Grace\u2019s National Director, Jarrod McKenna,\u00a0organised and is on the\u00a0ground at the Day\u2019s Hong Kong rally.<\/p>\n<p>Mr\u00a0McKenna\u00a0described\u00a0the proposed closure of\u00a0Aboriginal homeland communities\u00a0as\u00a0\u201can\u00a0attack on reconciliation, that renders the saying of \u2018sorry\u2019 utterly\u00a0meaningless.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christians\u00a0are standing in solidarity with Aboriginals and Torres Straight Islanders\u00a0today,\u00a0as part of a National Day of Action, with over 85 rallies organised\u00a0across Australia and\u00a0overseas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}