MEDIA RELEASE Micah Australia welcomes Labor’s pledge to boost foreign aid spending for Pacific countries and Timor-Leste by $525 million over the next four years ..read more

Micah Australia Executive Director, Rev Tim Costello, welcomes the Australian Government’s increase in aid to address global vaccine inequity as well as the extension of key pandemic support packages for the Indo-Pacific ..read more

In a tremendous win for our Christinas United for Afghanistan campaign, Christian leaders have today welcomed the Australian Government’s commitment in the 2022 Federal Budget to take in an additional 16,500 refugees from Afghanistan ..read more

Australia’s refugee program and overseas aid must both be increased to reflect the twin crises of Ukraine and Afghanistan ..read more

Last week the Australian Government announced that it would take 15,000 Afghan refugees over the next four years and I am here to explain why our hearts are breaking over this announcement ..read more

The situation in Afghanistan remains a political, economic, and humanitarian crisis, and we are calling on the Australian Government to act swiftly to protect Afghan refugees.  ..read more

A 'Shot of Hope’ is the name of a report launched this week from the End COVID For All coalition, that encourages Australia’s role in vaccinating the world against COVID-19. But it is also an appropriate statement for the current status of the End COVID For All campaign which is achieving increasingly hopeful outcomes.    ..read more

Micah is helping to coordinate a significant campaign for the Australian Church ..read more

Last week I read a post sent to me by Matt Darvas, a colleague of mine at Micah Australia. It read: "Dear Friends, This is to say a final goodbye...Words cannot express the depth, breadth and height of my gratitude, but I have gone home." Whilst somewhat jarring to read of someone’s death in a Facebook post written prior to their passing, I felt great grief as I realised to whom this post referred. Rev Dr Joel Edwards had died after battling cancer. My grief was not only for Joel and his family, but for my tribe of evangelicals ..read more

Melissa Lipsett is acting CEO of Baptist World Aid Australia and she was part of a large group of Christian women leaders who yesterday lobbied our politicians in Canberra for greater generosity towards the world’s poor. Melissa explains why the privilege of Australia must lead to greater responsibility for those who have less than we do. This article was originally published in Eternity News ..read more