Nominations sought for Delargey Awards 2024
The New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference sponsor the biannual Delargey Awards for young people and are seeking nominations for 2024. The nominations’ closing date is 15 May 2024.
Welcom Archive 2007-2026
WelCom is the monthly newspaper of the Archdiocese of Wellington. Print copies of the eight-page newsletter are free and available in parishes, and sent to parishes and schools in PDF form. The archive contains WelCom stories published from 2007 to 2026 (May).
Free school lunches
Students from six schools in the Wellington area visited Parliament on 10 April to urge the government not to make any cuts or changes to the free school lunches programme. It has been proposing to review the programme ahead of Budget 2024.
Celebration of cultures for Sacred Heart and St John’s Colleges
Sacred Heart College Napier and St John’s College Hastings celebrated a melting pot of culture through performance and food at Fiafia: A Night of Cultural Celebrations, on 22 March. More than 500 people attended the event held at St John’s College.
Cultural and enterprise learning trip to Mexico
St Peter’s College student Bindi Rolton has been invited on a trip to Mexico for the ‘LatAm Biz: Globalista – Entrepreneurship in Mexico’ programme. LatAm Biz: Mexico is a joint programme between the Latin American Centre of Asia-Pacific Excellence (LatAm CAPE) and Young Enterprise (YES). Bindi wrote this article before she left for Mexico last month.
St Peter’s canoe polo teams excel at nationals
History was made for Palmerston North’s St Peter’s College senior girls’ canoe polo team who won a gold medal at the New Zealand Secondary School Canoe Polo Championships. The three-day competition in March was held at Hokowhitu Lagoon (Centennial Lagoon), Palmerston North.
Dates and events – what’s on
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Wellington Abrahamic Council seminar
The Wellington Abrahamic Council of Jews, Christians, and Muslims is hosting a public seminar asking the question: ‘Why do bad things happen to good people?’.
Sacred Heart Parish Reefton: 150 Years
Parishioners, past-parishioners and friends of the former Sacred Heart Parish of Reefton are invited to our 150-year celebrations over the weekend of 17, 18 and 19 May.
WelCom April 2024
The latest version of WelCom is available to read here.
Heaven and earth rejoice. Alleluia!
Easter Sunday. ‘Christ is Risen’ – statue above the altar at St Mary’s Catholic Church, Palmerston North.