30 April 2008
Caritas is urging the UN Security Council to impose an immediate arms embargo on Zimbabwe. Church leaders in the country say that without international intervention Zimbabweans face genocide.
World News 30 April 2008 Caritas Internationalis joins Caritas Sri Lanka in condemning the death of Fr Karunaratnam, who was killed in a bomb blast in the north of the country on April 20. Fr Karunaratnam was the chair of the North East Secretariat on Human Rights, which aims to recognise and respect the human […]
Ramos-Horta, 58, returned from Darwin last week (April 20) after treatment for bullet wounds sustained in the February 11 assassination attempt outside his home. Rebel leader Alfredo Alves Reinado was killed at the scene.
Grief is very intense for young adults. Chris’s friends were shocked, disbelieving, angry, and questioning. ‘Where is Chris now?’ ‘Why do people die?’ ‘If God is a loving God and all powerful, why did he let Chris die?’ ‘Could I die soon, too?’ ‘He was my mate, and he is dead. What do I do now?’
For 75 hours he was lost at sea, yet Rob Hewitt survived to tell of an extraordinary spiritual journey that kept him alive and vibrantly fit to begin a renewed life with his family.
It’s really important to call on the folks in Taranaki because they have done so much for me in the past two and half years. The Mission Rest Home and the Brothers residence are a crucial part of my healing along with the parish and folk of Stratford and Hawera. It’s with a real sense of importance that I revisit them.
As well as the consideration of the central role of the Eucharist as ‘the source and summit of the Christian life’, we heard that a Eucharist ‘which does not pass over into the concrete practice of love is intrinsically fragmented’.
We listened to part of the pope’s message and were able to come to an understanding of what it means to be going to World Youth Day in Sydney 2008. We shared ideas and learnt about what it means to be a pilgrim. We discovered many amazing people in our lives that we just assumed were ‘average’.
The Oslo declaration … agreed that ‘by 2008 a legally binding international instrument will prohibit the use, production, transfer and stockpiling of cluster munitions …’