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LCA congregations in Australia are invited to take part in the five-yearly National Church Life Survey. The LCA has participated since the survey began and fully funds participation, meaning there is no financial cost for parishes or congregations.

The Commonwealth Government has asked the Australian Law Reform Commission to prepare a report on how to uphold human rights in faith-based education. The report proposes legislative changes that would be unlikely to support the current freedom for schools to build communities of faith.

Dr Ruth Powell of the National Church Life Survey (NCLS) has advised that they are running later than anticipated in the delivery of the full Church Life Profiles. They hope to release online results with supportive resources via email in the coming weeks. 

Almost six in 10 Lutheran pastors in Australia have dealt with domestic and family violence (DFV) situations, and almost all LCA clergy have responded to victims of abuse, national survey findings suggest.

According to research from November 2021 by the Australian Community Survey (ACS) and run by National Church Life Survey (NCLS) Research, 44 per cent of Australians believe in the resurrection of Jesus from the dead in some way.

Pastors are being invited to share their insights into how religious beliefs and practices have been misused in the perpetration of violence, as part of a research project initiated by the LCANZ.