NauMai September 2021 If world leaders don’t take steps in the next few months to get Covid-19 vaccines to the world’s poorest countries, then the darkest days of the pandemic still lie ahead. This is the view of Eric LeCompte, the executive director of Jubilee USA Network, an interfaith alliance founded to advocate for debt […]
NauMai September 2021 The president of the European Commission has paid tribute to Europe’s Christian roots after talks with the Pope, praising the Catholic Church’s role in fostering peace and reconciliation across the continent. ‘Christianity is deeply rooted in Europe – in our daily actions, we perceive their origin in Christian values,’ Ursula von der […]
NauMai September 2021 For Iraqis, the first week of August 2014 will forever be etched into their memory as the start of one of the worst episodes of religious and ethnic persecution the country has ever seen when the so-called Islamic State overtook the Plain of Nineveh. Hundreds of thousands of Christians, Yazidis, and even […]
NauMai September 2021 Scotland’s Catholic international development agency has launched a petition asking the UK government to pledge to do more to tackle climate change ahead of a major UN climate conference. The UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) will take place in Glasgow from October 31–November 12, 2021. The Scottish Catholic International […]
NauMai September 2021 Polish Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński, the ‘Iron Primate’ known for his resistance to communism, is to be beatified in Warsaw on September 12. He was a mentor to St John Paul II who said, ‘There would be no Polish Pope without the Primate’. Wyszyński was a martyr of the communist era – he […]
NauMai September 2021 Cardinal Raymond Burke, a former archbishop of St Louis, USA, who was hospitalised after contracting Covid-19, is now off a ventilator and has been moved out of intensive care into a regular hospital room. Burke, 73, one of Pope Francis’ loudest critics, is a former Vatican official who has expressed scepticism about […]
NauMai September 2021 President Joe Biden is poised to nominate Caroline Kennedy to serve as ambassador to Australia, three people familiar with the search process told CNN, in one of the highest-profile envoy selections yet by the White House. Kennedy, the daughter of former President John F Kennedy, served as ambassador to Japan during the […]
NauMai September 2021 Following campaigning led by students of Ōtorohanga College, from the Waikato region, two years ago the government announced that history of Aotearoa New Zealand would be required in the school curriculum to year 10. The proposed history curriculum encourages learners to be critical citizens – learning about the past to understand the […]
NauMai September 2021 First Catholic Māori priest (1914–1994) – Ngāti Maniapoto and Ngāti Hāuaroa Wiremu Hākopa Toa Te Āwhitu, the first Māori to be ordained as a Catholic priest, was born at Ōkahukura, near Taumarunui, on 28 July 1914. He was the third of 10 children of Tamakaitoa (Toa) Te Āwhitu and his wife, Katarina […]
NauMai September 2021 Changes to the Privacy Act, which came into effect on 1 December 2020, have wide-ranging implications in the Catholic Church of Aotearoa, New Zealand. Matthew Balm, Privacy Officer for the Diocese of Palmerston North, explains. ‘Privacy’ is a bit of a buzzword in certain circles, conjuring emotions from disinterest to concern in […]