Pilgrims reflect on the WYD experience
‘WYD confronted me and created a lot of profound questions like, How can our simple human likeness be diminished by some peoples’ need to be right and to force their view on others?’
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Josie on World Youth Day
It is no longer enough to just believe but it is now a duty to share and testify to the love, joy, hope and faith that I witnessed in Sydney.
World Youth Day a community experience
‘WYD brings us closer to Jesus even in those moments when we are struggling. It is often those difficult times that teach us more about ourselves and others and, in doing so, we can learn more about God.
Poor stay poor despite attempts to raise low incomes
Recent reports to the council show rises in foodbank use of 20 to 70 percent along with record high demand for budgeting advice and other support services.
Building a better world
As human beings we have an innate sense of what is right and wrong, what is just and unjust. This sense can be diminished over time, it can remain partial (just on our own behalf or that of my group) or it can become blind in certain circumstances. But it is there.
Rights body yet to rule on uneven child poverty
The Child Poverty Action Group is still waiting for a ruling on its claim that the government’s Working For Families subsidy discriminates against the children of beneficiaries who are not eligible for the package.
Friendship with Jesus must come first for young people
This lifelong relationship with Jesus is ‘not just a peak experience, going off for a big jamboree’ but the gentle building up of a friendship.