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WHO IS JCMA?
JCMA, Jewish-Christian-Muslim Association of Australia,
a Victorian based organization established in 2003 aims
to enable people of faith to deepen their understanding
of Judaism, Christianity and Islam in Australia today by
meeting, engaging with and learning from Jews, Christians
and Muslims. JCMA organizes an annual four day residential
conference, dates of which are July 3-6 2006. In 2005 JCMA
was successful in obtaining a Living in Harmony Grant to
run a pilot Secondary Schools project in Metropolitan and
Regional Victoria in 2006.
We co-operate to promote interfaith dialogue and encounter
each other as people of faith and integrity living in Australia.
We discover many shared religious values, as well as much
variation, both within and between our faiths. We aim to
strengthen our own and the public’s commitment to
the significance of community participation, freedom of
religion, diversity, and respect for each others faith
in public discourse and to encourage the active involvement
of people of faith in the contemporary Australian context.
We are people working in community support roles, tertiary
students, laywomen and laymen, religious leaders and academics,
with differing amounts of religious and interfaith experience
sharing similar goals.
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