Charity / Christmas / Church / Erin Carelse
by Erin Carelse · Published November 14, 2019 · Last modified November 11, 2019
Operation Christmas Love (OCL), a project created by Christian organisation Mission Without Borders (MWB), is looking to put together and distribute Christmas boxes for thousands of poor families in Eastern Europe. “Each year as...
As part of Radio Veritas’ 20th birthday celebrations, the station will open up the airwaves to sodalities for the whole day on Tuesday, November 26. In what the station calls the “Radio Veritas Fun...
Charity / Church / Erin Carelse
by Erin Carelse · Published November 11, 2019 · Last modified November 8, 2019
Little Eden Society won R900 000 as it took second place with its shower-bath at the SAB Foundation Social Innovation & Disability Empowerment Awards. The combination of a bath and shower enables caregivers to...
Charity / Christian Living / Church / Sydney Duval
by Caleb SC · Published November 2, 2019 · Last modified October 31, 2019
By Sydney Duval – Misereor and Missio are the two big Ms celebrated as active and conscientious Catholic voices for social responsibility and pastoral outreach. Misereor is the German Catholic bishops’ organisation for development cooperation....
Charity / Church / Letter of the Week
by Letters Editor · Published September 30, 2019 · Last modified September 27, 2019
Eric Consani, Cape Town – I am writing as a shocked and disillusioned regular donor to Catholic Welfare & Development (CWD), which was a prestigious Catholic institution in the archdiocese of Cape Town, but...
Charity / Christian Living / Church / Erin Carelse
by Erin Carelse · Published September 30, 2019 · Last modified September 27, 2019
First a project turned beggars into newspaper vendors; a year later it has turned homeless people into sellers of secondhand books — and the Paper Money project of Durban’s Denis Hurley Centre (DHC) is...
Little Eden Society’s third annual Danny & Domitilla Hyams Memorial Lecture will be presented by former Miss South Africa and chief executive of Standard Bank Wealth South Africa Peggy-Sue Khumalo. Through this event, the...
Charity / Christian Living / Church
by Admin · Published September 18, 2019 · Last modified September 16, 2019
By Sheila Pires – In a relatively short time, the social development arm of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference, Caritas SA, has achieved in the areas of agriculture, palliative care for HIV/Aids and...
Charity / Christian Living / Church / Letter of the Week
by Letters Editor · Published August 17, 2019 · Last modified August 15, 2019
Moira Gillmore, Durban – Jean Vanier, the founder of the L’Arche communities and Faith and Light, who died on May 7, and I became friends after he had visited South Africa in the...
My personal association with Catholic Welfare & Development (CWD)—the welfare agency of the archdiocese of Cape Town which had to close its doors in November—makes me think of the 1980s. It calls to...
The official reopening of Nazareth House in Durban takes place on Saturday, June 8, and members of the public have been invited to tour the facility and meet the management team. This time last...
Charity / Christian Living / Church / Erin Carelse
by Erin Carelse · Published May 1, 2019 · Last modified April 29, 2019
The Catholic Health Care Association (CATHCA) held its Gauteng provincial conference, with staff and members coming together to meet other care workers and share their experiences and challenges. CATHCA, a non-profit organisation, is the...
More
