EQUALITY FOR VICTORIA’S PEOPLE OF FAITH

We should be free to attend our churches and worship. We need faith at this time.

Bring back the churches, why are being singled out when this is the time we need to go the most. We have choice , give it back to the faithful to find peace .

ICXC NIKA

Worship in church and Eucharist is essential.

We sincerely ask that our Churches open for all the reasons outlined in the letter

It's the time to reopen our churches Reopening’ in a way that secures the equitable treatment of religious communities and grants us the opportunity to practise our faith in a COVID-safe manner.

open the churches

We need to have the right to go to church when it gives comfort to people. Get vic back as it use to be

Please open up our church again!

Please re open

Please open churches for the faithful

Churches have been closed far too long.

All people of faith need to be close to God at this difficult times especially the elderly . With proper care I can not see why we can’t open our churches .

Presbyterian Church Of Victoria

Equality for faith

People of faith should be able to attend places of worship. For many in the community this is literally what keeps them going day to day. If cafes and restaurants are allowed to open with Covid rules implemented why can’t the same rules be implemented in places of worship?

Petition to the Premier of Victoria Equality for Victoria’s People of Faith equalityforfaith.com.au | #equalityforfaith People of faith are being treated unfairly by the Victorian government’s ‘Roadmap’ out of lockdown. Once we have reached 10,000 signatures, we hope to have this petition tabled in the Victorian Parliament. Your support of this petition will make a real difference for Victoria’s faith community. Click here to sign Dear Premier Daniel Andrews, We, people of Victoria’s faith community, request that the ‘Roadmap for Reopening’ be amended so that people of faith and places of worship are treated equitably and fairly. The 2016 national census indicates that approximately 60% of Victorians identify as religious. For people of faith, the ability to practise our beliefs – including through public worship – is essential to our wellbeing. As it stands, the ‘Roadmap’ suggests that our wellbeing has not been given due consideration. We are particularly concerned about the inequitable treatment of people of faith under ‘Step 3’ of your ‘Roadmap’. For example, ‘Step 3’ permits cafes and restaurants to seat up to 20 people indoors and 50 people outdoors yet restricts religious communities to outdoor gatherings of only 10 people and indoor private worship to household bubbles. There is no logical reason for this discrepancy. People of faith are able to attend a service in a place of worship whilst wearing a face mask; physical distancing is not a challenge in what are often very large venues; services are time-limited and rigorous infection-control measures are able to be implemented. A place of worship can and should be accessible in a COVID-safe way. Religious organisations should be afforded the same opportunity to open for indoor worship with density quotients equivalent to those seen in other parts of the community such as hospitality. We were afforded the opportunity as we emerged from the first lockdown; we deserve to be afforded t

Nobody has the right or the power to close a house of faith!

Keep our churches open

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