2025 in Review: Canberra Declaration Fuels Prayer, Evangelism and National Christian News
As 2025 draws to a close, read this short reflection on how the Lord used the Canberra Declaration. Thank you for your faithful prayers, support and partnership this year.
With 2025 almost behind us, we’d like to take this opportunity to reflect on the year that’s been and give glory to God for his continued faithfulness to us.
Each year, challenges to the Christian worldview keep increasing. We have seen some laws implemented, such as the ‘conversion practices‘ ban, which significantly hinder the ability of parents and churches to uphold God’s design for human sexuality and gender.
Yet, while living as a faithful disciple of Jesus Christ becomes more difficult, God remains faithful to his promise “to be with us always” (Matthew 28:20) and give us grace to meet these challenges (2 Corinthians 12:9).
For the past few years, there’s been steady growth (though sometimes small) to our Canberra Declaration signatories, Daily Declaration subscribers and social media followers.
Then, from January onwards, we began to grow significantly. Remarkably, in 2025:
- Daily Declaration subscribers have more than doubled.
- The Daily Declaration cracked one million views a year, and now sits at almost 1.5 million views.
- Thousands more people signed the Canberra Declaration.
- Our Facebook followers grew by several thousand, and our Facebook page activity increased dramatically as articles were shared and generated discussion.
While increased numbers are encouraging, our focus remains purely on the revitalisation of Australia through the gospel of Jesus Christ.
This year’s top highlight was the Australian Evangelism Roundtable in Brisbane. Representatives from 80% of all church denominations attended and agreed to what is now called the Reaching Australia 2033 statement.
The statement is a clear call for the Australian Church to share the gospel with every Aussie by Pentecost 2033. As seen in the video below, the roundtable delegates were thrilled at what this unity in gospel mission means for our nation!
A Quick Recap of 2025
Looking back over 2025, we’re grateful for all the opportunities we’ve been given to serve the Australian Church. Here’s the short version):
- Promoted and organised the Sunrise Prayer Relay for New Year’s Day 2025.
- Promoted and supported 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting for Life from 19 January – 8 February 2025.
- Created and promoted the Christian Values Checklist for the 3 May 2025 Federal Election, which was accessed by tens of thousands of people.
- Prayed and fasted for 21 days for the Federal Election (13 April – 3 May).
- In a new initiative, joined with theAustralian Christian Lobby (ACL) to hold the largest national online prayer meeting for the federal election.
- Held our first-ever Christians in Politics Digital Summit to promote and support federal election forums. Many Christians significantly increased their involvement in the political process.
- Held the first National Day of Repentance on the lawns of Parliament House on 21 April.
- Promoted and supported Go Month: 31 days of prayer for sharing the gospel during May. Coming straight after the election prayer campaign, many shared about incredible answers to prayer and the enjoyment of God’s presence during our prayer meetings.
- Partnered with the amazing Taylor family as Felicity walked 2,500 kilometres through the heart of the nation — from Sturt Creek in the Kimberley to Yaraka in western Queensland. Hundreds of people joined in prayer walking their neighbourhood for several Saturday mornings.
- Promoted and supported 31 days of prayer and fasting for Church and the release of the gospel in October. We saw many amazing answers to prayer, including the release of the final version of the Reaching Australia 2033 statement. If you haven’t yet signed the statement, please do so by clicking the green button below!
- Partnered with UK evangelist Michael Harvey on Wednesday nights during October as he taught and guided believers in a simple spiritual practice to share the gospel. For many, this was the highlight of their year as they God’s involvement in their lives and the lives of others in ways they never thought possible!
Gospel Unity and Partnership
With continued turmoil in our nation, our mission to revitalise Australia’s Judaeo-Christian values becomes ever more pressing and vital.
To achieve this, the Canberra Declaration’s commitment and involvement in nationwide gospel initiatives has significantly increased this year. If we could sum up 2025 in a few words, it would be ‘gospel unity and partnership’. By God’s grace, our gospel impact will grow exponentially in 2026.
Though the darkness is evident, so is the light. And the deeper the darkness, the brighter the light shines!
Thank you for your continued partnership, prayers and support. We are truly humbled by our incredible supporters. As Jesus said, “Well done, good and faithful servants” (Matthew 25:21).
Together, we are making a significance difference, and we anticipate that impact will grow even stronger in 2026!
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Can you set aside a day where we ALL in Australia, are encouraged to just praise God for who He is, His great works, what He HAS done, and what He’s going to do – in us & in our country.
To put God’s work here in context, please read 2 Chron. 20:1- 30.
Then go back & read just verses 21 & 22 to see what the Israelites did, and THEN what GOD did!
(There aren’t too many times that singers, praising God for His holiness, go out AT THE HEAD OF THE ARMY!)
Please let’s walk into 2026 in the power of HIS MIGHT – after all – without Him we can do NOTHING!
Thank you to all the Canberra Declaration team.
It is so good to be able to have a Christian news source to turn to when the mainstream media will either not comment or give a skewed bias on their reporting. It is so good to have reporting and comments from a Christian perspective. Keep up the good work.
Thanks also, Ruth.
It is a fantastic story in 2 Chronicles 20:1-30 of how there seems to be no way forward, crying out to God “we don’t know what to do” and trusting in God for deliverance. (Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:5-6)
We (I) need to have a different attitude to prayer and worship. So often we pray and get that out of the way so we can get on with the real work. We need to see that PRAYER is the real work, anything we do afterwards should be in response to that prayer with the credit going to God. (Lord, you establish peace for us; all that we have accomplished you have done for us. Isaiah 26:12)
I agree with Ruth’s suggestion to put a day aside to just worship and praise God for who He is, perhaps on a monthly basis?
— 2 Chronicles 20:22 As they began to sing and praise, the Lord set ambushes against the men of Ammon, Moab and Mount Seir who were invading Judah, and they were defeated.!!
Thank you for bringing people closer to God and for giving us international information which is completely deliberately ignored or misrepresented by Australia’s Media.
What a wonderful year it has been! Thank you to the CD crew and everything you do.
I agree with Ruth and RJ. A national day of praise would be great! But a day where we praise Jesus. I notice both Ruth and RJ neglect to mention Jesus and only talk in OT terms as if we are in some Israelite army marching victorious.
No.
2 Cor 2:12 But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere.
Jesus is the victorious general, his angels are his army and we but his captives in chains. We are chained to his chariot in submission. Marching in his victory parade in defeat.
So a national day of praise is a wonderful idea.