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April 6th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
FROM fundraising Easter egg hunts to preaching by Melbourne’s archbishops, generosity was the resounding theme of Good Friday across Victoria.
As Victorians dug deep to raise millions for the Royal Children’s Hospital annual Good Friday Appeal, Anglican Archbishop Dr Philip Freier used his Easter message to grill big business over corporate greed.
He took aim at Australia’s treatment of asylum seekers and uninspiring politicians while acknowledging the Occupy Movement as a response to the growing gap between rich and poor.
“I invite Australia’s business and parliamentary leaders to reflect on how wealth shared equitably can be used for the betterment of the whole community,” Dr Freier wrote in the Herald Sun newspaper.
“The banks, for example, have failed to make an adequate case for increasing interest rates or making employees redundant when they have been making enormous and record profits.
“The mining sector has shown it is reluctant to share a fair proportion of the wealth it has accrued from digging up the mineral resources that belong to all Australians.”
The acting dean of the Anglican St Paul’s Cathedral, Ray Cleary, urged Victorians to seek fulfillment from their faith and loved ones, rather than property and money.
“Good Friday and Easter Day are days in which the whole community should be able to rest and celebrate and acknowledge their faith without having to feel that they have got to go shopping,” Mr Cleary said.
“It ought to be a time for family and friends and refreshment.
“There’s a lot of pressure from those who have no faith to make it a big commercial weekend.”
Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne Denis Hart told followers that Good Friday was a sacred day for meditation, rather than consumerism.
Around 3000 people participated in Melbourne’s Way of the Cross, moving across Christian churches in the CBD, commemorating the Stations of the Cross.
Jamie Pearce, spokesman for Melbourne City Churches in Action, said the record crowd, which clogged CBD roads, was a demonstration of young multicultural Australians, united in faith.
At Werribee Park, 7500 people went in search of 180,000 Cadbury eggs in Australia’s biggest Easter egg hunt, raising $118,000 for the Good Friday Appeal.
By 5.00pm (AEST), $5 million had been raised for the appeal, as volunteers with collecting tins hit the streets.
Firefighters did their bit, taking part in a 24-hour fund-raising relay in the CBD while families took part in the Kids Day Out at Etihad Stadium.
The appeal ends at midnight.
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