 Friday 5 September 2008
Hurricane Gustav wrought a devastating blow to one of the countries
that is already among the world's poorest, reported Caritas-Haiti.
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 Friday 5 September 2008
After 100 years without a new
church, the Catholic Community of Lu Dong in the Diocese of Tong Zhou
in China celebrated the consecration of two new churches where the
faithful can now attend Mass and pray daily.
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Thursday 4 September 2008
Caritas local partners are continuing to deliver medical assistance,
sanitation, food, clean water and shelter to thousands of victims of
the Kosi River flood in Bihar.
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 Thursday 3 September 2008
United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon invited the president of Caritatis
Internationalis to attend a high-level meeting on how to better
overcome the global scourge of poverty.
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 Thursday 4 September 2008
Christians are called to stop being wasteful and remember that the
planet is everyone's home, says an official with the Italian bishops'
conference.
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 Wednesday 3 September 2008
In an interview with
Vatican Radio, the Archbishop of Ranchi in India, Cardinal Telesforo
Placidus Toppo, said that the Catholic Church’s defense of the
sacredness of the human person and its opposition to the caste system
are what is fueling the violence against Christian minorities in India.
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 Tuesday 2 September 2008
The press office of the Holy See has released the prayer intentions of Pope Benedict for the month of September.
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 Tuesday 2 September 2008
French-Colombian
politician Ingrid Betancourt described her meeting with Pope Benedict XVI as
an "extraordinary experience."
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 Tuesday 2 September 2008
Fr Emmanuel Asi, secretary of the Catholic Bible Commission of Pakistan
and parish priest of a large parish in Lahore, has told the Catholic
charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) that Christians in Pakistan are
living "in constant fear and peril".
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 Tuesday 2 September 2008
Pope
Benedict XVI is traveling to France in mid-September, making a four-day
visit that is loaded with events and charged with pastoral challenges.
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 Tuesday 2 September 2008
The Vatican will begin installing some 2,400 solar panels in late
September, the first of several projects aimed at exploiting renewable
energy resources in the tiny city-state.
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Monday 1 September 2008
By John Pontifex and John Newton
Christians in India have demanded the immediate dismissal of the Orissa
state government following the second spate of attacks on Christians in
eight months.
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 Monday 1 September 2008
By Catherine Smibert
Now that the physical sites and structures of Sydney's World
Youth Day have been dismantled, other, more spiritual structures, are
going up.
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 Thursday 28 August 208
Iraq has a problem beside suicide bombings and political instability,
and it receives too little media attention, affirmed an archbishop in
Baghdad: There is a growing wave of kidnappings.
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 Thursday 28 August 2008
With the approach of Schoolies Week
and end-of-year celebrations over 17,000 Catholic Year 12 students
across Australia are about to receive the 2008 edition of The Road
Ahead, a special publication dealing with end-of-year issues from a
Catholic perspective.
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 Thursday 28 August 2008
Dr Chris Hayes, who is currently Headmaster of St. Edmund’s College,
Canberra, has been appointed Principal of Xavier College in Kew.
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 Wednesday 27 August 2008
Australian philosopher, Professor Garrett Cullity, has tackled
an age-old question in ethics and developed a new and compelling
answer.
His book The Moral Demands of Affluence asks: ‘To what extent
are we morally obliged to help those in need?'. It has won him the
$10,000 Australian Catholic University (ACU National) Eureka Prize for
Ethics.
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Tuesday 26 August 2008
Shortly before the spectacular closing ceremonies of the Olympics, Chinese authorities arrested another bishop.
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 Tuesday 26 August 2008
If a humanitarian corridor is opened into South Ossetia, as Pope
Benedict XVI is urging, the scope of the emergency there might be
revealed to be larger than expected, said the nuncio in Georgia.
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 Monday 25 August 2008
Five weeks after it hosted Australia’s largest gathering, Randwick
Racecourse has been formally returned to the racing industry by World
Youth Day 2008 (WYD08) and the NSW Government.
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