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To Zambia... With Love From Tamworth
30 Aug 2010
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Mission Month comes early at McCarthy Catholic College in Tamworth, when approximately 800 high-school students will step out on Friday 3rd September to support our Children’s Mission.
Through Catholic Mission, this year’s Walkathon will raise money for the Mary Queen of Peace Primary School being built for children living in the ‘Kalikiliki Settlement’, in Lusaka, Zambia. Thanks to Luke Adams, the Year 9 Coordinator, McCarthy’s Walkathon has become an annual event, with the last three raising $38,000 in total.
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Catholic Bishops call for urgent assistance and Day of Prayer for Pakistan
24 Aug 2010
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Fear of cholera epidemic in tent cities with no fresh water |
In the midst of the chaos in the tent cities of Pakistan, lack of nutrition and fresh water are cause of grave fears of the next disaster – Cholera.
Pakistan National Director of Catholic Mission, Fr Mario Rodrigues sent an update on the situation in Pakistan as Bishops call for unity and prayer. ... more
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Missing children cases on the rise: Millions of children at risk.
24 Aug 2010
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Grave fears for children during displacement from the floods |
Catholic Mission’s news service Fides reports from Pakistan that the number of missing or lost children is rising alarmingly.
Non Government Organisations in Pakistan are trying to organise shelters for the identification of children and for family reunification, but it is not easy to work, they note, in a situation of general chaos and lack of humanitarian aid. ... more
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Pakistan's Despair: Catholic Minority Gives All It Can
17 Aug 2010
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File photo of Fr Mario Rodrigues |
Almost the entire population of Australia; twenty million people are homeless amid the severe flooding that has inundated Pakistan on a scale that has not been seen before, according to Catholic Mission Director for Pakistan, Father Mario Rodrigues.
“The United Nations now estimates that the destruction will exceed the total of the Indian Ocean tsunami (2004), the Kashmir and Haiti earthquake (2005/2010) combined.” Father Mario told Catholic Mission today. ... more
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Flood Crisis In Pakistan Worsens
13 Aug 2010
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The flood crisis has left eight million
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Eight million people have been reported homeless and the fate of millions more hangs in the balance as the flooded Indus River, 3,200 kilometre long, rages uncontrollably into Pakistan’s southern economic heartland.
So far the vast wave of water has swept all before it, flooding over 700,000 hectares of land and ruining millions of tonnes of newly harvested crops. Tens of thousands of homes have been flooded, with the only escape for the occupants to sit on rooftops hoping for rescue. Meanwhile the monsoonal rains show no sign of abatement.
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Mother Teresa: Missionary to the World
3 Aug 2010
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Because of Mother Teresa, Missionaries of Charity Sisters today work with the poor in 133 countries | |
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| In life Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910 -1997) was a household name, the most famous missionary of modern times. Her selfless service to the poor, sick and dying was the living embodiment of Christian charity, piety and love.
Born on 26 August 1910, Gonxha Agnes Bojaxhiu in the city of Skopje, the capital of Macedonia, the centenary of her birth is August 26, 2010.
As a missionary Mother Teresa was a great believer in the cumulative effects of doing God’s work in the world. She once remarked, “We cannot do great things, but we can do small things with great love.” Small in stature perhaps, Mother Teresa’s influence went far beyond her own individual efforts.
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Go On - Go Online and Support Our Every Day Heroes
26 Jul 2010
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Michelle Kermond with a Timorese friend
"You want to do more" | Whether you’re an individual, school, class or parish Everydayhero is designed to use the phenomenon of online social networking to help publicise your event and attract sponsors to your fundraising activity.
At the Everydayhero fundraising website(www.everydayhero.com.au) you can register your special event and nominate Catholic Mission as your cause.
Once that’s done, simply build your profile and invite all of your friends to sponsor you.
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