We are asking to please allow us to practice our faith, yes we will do it Covid-19 safe. Thank you.
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Viviane Drumond
5 years ago
Please, open the Churches!
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Pauline McDermott
5 years ago
If pubs can open, so can churches.
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Anonymous
5 years ago
Faith is the foundation and greatest strength for so many in a time such as this and, for many, missing religious practise is the cause of a lot of pain and heartache. More than any pub or restaurant, places of worship are most important, especially in this pandemic, to bring hope and Light.
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Andrew Carroll
5 years ago
Please let the churches open it’s time
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Bernadette O'Brien
5 years ago
We're going well in Nsw and having Churches open are a huge part of that reason. #spiritualblessings
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Gizela Kechenovich
5 years ago
Please let us go to CHURCH
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Anonymous
5 years ago
Mr. Andrews, I have been very supportive of your measures to help protect all Victorians, however, I am disappointed with the disparity in how places of worship are being given less consideration compared to hospitality and other areas. As person of faith, my spiritual welfare is very important to me; my faith is a strong part of my identity and not being able to properly practice my faith has been one of the biggest challenges of this pandemic. Like other sectors and industries, places of worship have also adapted and put rigorous controls in place to protect their people. I feel let down by the current roadmap and would like to request you to please review this for places of worship.
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Peter Iosefa
5 years ago
please open our churches
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George Dokos
5 years ago
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 limited 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 the same opportunity again as we emerge from the second lockdown.
Premier Andrews, we, people of Victoria’s faith community, request that you adjust the ‘Roadmap for 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.
Signed,
George Dokos
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Loretta Hoenen
5 years ago
I think you've underestimated Vic being a secular state
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Anonymous
5 years ago
Get Real, God is needed in people's lives more than ever!
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Paul Crothers
5 years ago
Please allow faith communities to open up in line with hospitality and other similar venues.
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vincenzo Mercuri
5 years ago
Yes we want our church opened
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Sophia Tsafoulis
5 years ago
Open all places of worship to us PLEASE, we need our FAITH to come FIRST BEFORE the Politics and before money, we need our CHURCHES OPEN and we are Suffering Spiritually
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Kathy Barun
5 years ago
How is a church high risk but, you can smoke, gamble got to a bottlo and it's burke st. Church is so important not just for community but for your mental well-being and you have destroyed
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Maria Moderana
5 years ago
I agree.
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Kathleen gauci
5 years ago
We should have the mass said inside the church there is the holy sacrament and it’s very important to us catholic people to have a Quite place we can can kneel and pray, we prepare our church to be indoors, as restaurant and shops are indoors and there are many people more at shops then church, please consider this as we like mass said indoors thanku
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Lynne Heath
5 years ago
Please open up churches to the same degree as pubs and clubs. People's mental and spiritual heath is vitally important
please open churches
We are asking to please allow us to practice our faith, yes we will do it Covid-19 safe. Thank you.
Please, open the Churches!
If pubs can open, so can churches.
Faith is the foundation and greatest strength for so many in a time such as this and, for many, missing religious practise is the cause of a lot of pain and heartache. More than any pub or restaurant, places of worship are most important, especially in this pandemic, to bring hope and Light.
Please let the churches open it’s time
We're going well in Nsw and having Churches open are a huge part of that reason. #spiritualblessings
Please let us go to CHURCH
Mr. Andrews, I have been very supportive of your measures to help protect all Victorians, however, I am disappointed with the disparity in how places of worship are being given less consideration compared to hospitality and other areas. As person of faith, my spiritual welfare is very important to me; my faith is a strong part of my identity and not being able to properly practice my faith has been one of the biggest challenges of this pandemic. Like other sectors and industries, places of worship have also adapted and put rigorous controls in place to protect their people. I feel let down by the current roadmap and would like to request you to please review this for places of worship.
please open our churches
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 limited 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 the same opportunity again as we emerge from the second lockdown. Premier Andrews, we, people of Victoria’s faith community, request that you adjust the ‘Roadmap for 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. Signed, George Dokos
I think you've underestimated Vic being a secular state
Get Real, God is needed in people's lives more than ever!
Please allow faith communities to open up in line with hospitality and other similar venues.
Yes we want our church opened
Open all places of worship to us PLEASE, we need our FAITH to come FIRST BEFORE the Politics and before money, we need our CHURCHES OPEN and we are Suffering Spiritually
How is a church high risk but, you can smoke, gamble got to a bottlo and it's burke st. Church is so important not just for community but for your mental well-being and you have destroyed
I agree.
We should have the mass said inside the church there is the holy sacrament and it’s very important to us catholic people to have a Quite place we can can kneel and pray, we prepare our church to be indoors, as restaurant and shops are indoors and there are many people more at shops then church, please consider this as we like mass said indoors thanku
Please open up churches to the same degree as pubs and clubs. People's mental and spiritual heath is vitally important