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).
Caritas is opposing proposals in the new Social Security legislation which would effectively transfer the onus of responsibility for identifying correct benefit entitlements from the Department of Work and Income (WINZ) to beneficiaries themselves.
‘People would need to seek advice before applying for any benefit assistance, because they don’t know what they could miss out on,’ says Teresa Homan of Upper Hutt.
Elderly people are seeking counselling in increasing numbers as they try to deal with an isolation that comes with a faster pace of life for the people around them.
The Bakhita Training Centre for refugees was opened last month in Upper Hutt. The centre’s main aim is to educate parents and help them achieve NZQA basic computer skills and participate in the ESOL programme.
An epic journey from Nelson to Westport marked the start of life for a new classroom for St Canice’s primary school on 1 February this year.
The core values of Our Lady of the Rosary School, Waiwhetu, were highlighted at its 75th Jubilee marked on 9 – 11 March.
Three St Bernards, Lower Hutt, students won 11 scholarships between them last year.
2 April 2007
Refugee lawyer Julian Burnside has accused Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews, a Catholic, of betraying his religious principles and breaching international law over the sending of 82 Sri Lankan asylum seekers to detention camps in Nauru.
2 April 2007
Testifying at the Indonesia-East Timor Truth Commission, former Dili Bishop Carlos Belo said that Indonesian forces and their militia allies had systematically razed the diocese’s compound as well as other churches, killing several clergy and an unknown number of others.
This month, on 25 April, we remember the New Zealand and Australian soldiers who fought at Gallipoli in 1915. Many of them died as a result of a bungled leadership, others from the conditions in the trenches or from the poor nutrition that went with field battles. Margaret Orange of Masterton offers this reflection on her father’s experience of The Great War.