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Catholic Mission
National Office
19 Mackenzie Street
North Sydney NSW 2060
Tel (02) 9919 7800
Fax (02) 8904 0185
Freecall 1800 257 296
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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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Priestly Call to Mission - From Surf City to City on the Amazon
6 Jul 2010
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Father John baptises a Peruvian soldier | Few of the parishioners of Santa Rosa of Lima parish in city of Iquitos, Peru, remark on the fact that their parish priest is an Australian. That is just the way Sydney-born priest, Father John Andersen, 63, wants it. “To be a priest is to be one with the people,” says Father John.
After decades living among the people of Iquitos he laughs, “I suppose I speak pretty good Spanish. Learning a new language as an adult wasn’t an obstacle in his missionary vocation. ”My call is to serve the people of God. In my parish they have grown used to me speaking with an Aussie accent.” ... more
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Award-Winning Play Tunes iPod Gen to Global Mission
28 Jun 2010
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Catholic Mission's Dorothy Makasa and Jenny Collins-White with the ARRCC Award | Catholic Mission’s Village Space performance group has won a prestigious community award for its theatre-in-education play “Climate Change and Poverty”.
The play, which dramatises the challenges of climate change for ordinary people, received the Highly Commended Award from the Australian Religious Response to Climate Change (ARRCC), a multi-faith environmental network dedicated to raising ecological issues in faith.
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World Environment Day - Australia Joins Growing List of 'Drowning Islands'
3 Jun 2010
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Dolly McGaughey expresses her fears for Poruma | While Australia’s politicians debate the so-called “Inconvenient Truth” of human-induced climate change, inhabitants of low lying islands across the Pacific know climate change is very real.
Today, on World Environment Day, comes news that rising seas are threatening an island inside Australia’s own territorial waters.
Poruma, (formerly known as Coconut Island) is a small island in the Torres Strait Archipelago, between Queensland and PNG. A part of Queensland, in the Catholic Diocese of Cairns, Poruma is home to 205 people who have traditionally lived by fishing. They also manage an award-winning resort on the island.
But there is another side of Poruma. It is drowning. Rising sea levels, storm surges and salinity in its freshwater wells is making Poruma uninhabitable for its people. ... more
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