Author: wmc

Newtown Festival and World Youth Day

Items included the 2008 WYD Song, a medieval weaponry display and more music. We also had a craft stall in the main street selling jewellery, cards and artwork by pilgrims.

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Waikanae monsta WYD garage sale

The sausages were superb, the cakes simply delicious, the deals were spectacular and the pilgrims were very happy to have their fundraising efforts boosted by $2500.

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Australian Jesuit leader moves to regional position

World News Cecily McNeill9 April 2008 Australian Jesuit provincial, Mark Raper, has been appointed to the job recently vacated by the society’s new superior general. Fr Adolfo Nicolás was elected Father General of the Society of Jesus at its 35th General Congregation which ended in Rome on March 6 after two months’ deliberation (for more […]

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Refugees’ groups launch standards of engagement

The Standards for Engagement: Guidelines for Central and Local Government, and NGOs Working with Refugee Background Communities is based on nine standards developed by ChangeMakers in conjunction with government and non-government agencies. ChangeMakers works in the Wellington region.

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Mandalas for health and wellbeing

‘Mandala’ the Sanscrit word for circle, represents wholeness, the connectedness of all things’”a model for the organisational structure of life itself, represented in nature’s daisy.

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Pahiatua marriage leaders meet Pope Benedict

Part of their role is to facilitate an annual meeting of the representatives of 92 countries from all of the continents of the world where Worldwide Marriage Encounter is currently operating. The most recent of these meetings was held in Rome in January

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