Former Wel-com editor, Marilyn Pryor, has won a major award for excellence in religious journalism.
The award was announced at the recent Australasian Press Association Conference in Melbourne and presented to Marilyn’s husband, Geoff, and her famil
For the first time World Youth Day will be held in the southern hemisphere in 2008.
Pope Benedict XVI told the tens of thousands of young people gathered in Cologne for World Youth Day last month that he would travel to Sydney to meet the world’s you
Race Relations Commissioner Joris de Bres congratulated participants at a cultural diversity day in Palmerston North last month on ‘continuing to challenge yourselves’ through Social Justice Week.
The day brought together some 80 people from a varie
A chance challenge to a swimming race started Chanel College Masterton Principal Jo Matthews on the path that lead to a silver medal at the World Masters’ Games in Canada last month.
Jo won silver in her age group in the 200 metres butterfly which m
A brother of the Society of Mary convicted last month of sexually abusing boys in his care some 20 years ago, has expressed concern about the welfare of the young men involved.
Brother Andrew Cody has begun a two and a half year jail sentence after a
In 1995, the New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference recognised the patience of Māori people in working to have historic injustices righted.
They acknowledged that over 150 years after the signing of the Treaty, the patience of many Māori was ‘bein
A worldwide prayer movement for mothers worried about the pressures on today’s children has seen its prayer book translated into 25 languages.
Veronica Williams who started the movement, Mothers’ Prayers, with her brother and sister-in-law in England
Catholics may have wondered what to think when the Minister of Health approved the implementation of the Guidelines for Embryo Donation for Reproductive Purposes on 8 August.
The guidelines, prepared by the National Ethics Committee on Assisted Huma
The 11th International Interchurch Families conference in Newcastle Australia opened the day Brother Roger Schutz of TaizÈ was buried. At his funeral Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, said
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AIDS is pandemic in many African countries but in Uganda, the proportion of the population who are HIV positive has fallen by nearly half in the 16 to 40 age group in the past 15 years.
It is not often that we hear good news about this deadly pandem