The sweet, but sometimes-bitter truth about Easter Chocolate
Chocolate is delicious and people around the world know it. Every Easter Australians spend millions of dollars buying hundreds of kilograms of chocolate to eat and give away. The registered charity Australian Catholic Religious Against Trafficking in Humans (ACRATH) has launched a Slavery Free Easter Chocolate campaign. Read more about the campaign below.
Project Compassion Week 2: Margaret from Solomon Islands
Margret, 39, is a teacher at a vocational school for deaf students in the Solomon Islands. She was born deaf, so she knows the challenges it poses to education and employment.
Project Compassion Week 1: Jamila from Bangladesh
Twenty-two-year-old, Jamila, is a single mother, living in the world’s largest refugee camp in Bangladesh. A Rohingya woman, she fled the armed conflict in Myanmar’s Rakhine State to save herself, her elderly mother and eight-month-old baby daughter. Having been abandoned by her husband, she faced life in the camp on her own.
Project Compassion calls on Australians to ‘Be More’
Ash Wednesday on February 17 marks the official launch of Project Compassion 2021, Caritas Australia’s annual Lenten appeal, which runs for the six weeks of Lent.
Project Compassion 2021: Be More
The 2021 theme for Project Compassion is ‘Be More’. This Lent join with Caritas Australia to help end poverty and injustice in our world.
Catholic Church supports SRE in schools
The Catechists in our Diocese undertake a vital evangelising role, educating children and young people and forming them in the Catholic faith.
October is Mission Month
October is World Mission Month, a time when Catholics all over the world join together to support and celebrate global missionary work.
Reaching out to the elderly around the world on International Day of Older Persons
On International Day of Older Persons, Caritas Australia would like to pay tribute to older people involved in its programs around the world, like Afiron in Bangladesh, who is 100 years old.