When a Catholic aftercare centre in Cape Town’s Manenberg area planned its tenth anniversary this year, nobody could foresee that its function in the coronoavirus crisis would be to return to its initial aim:...
Charity / Christian Living / Church / Erin Carelse
by Erin Carelse · Published June 11, 2020 · Last modified June 10, 2020
A group of men staying under lockdown at the Denis Hurley Centre (DHC) in Durban have brought their creative ideas and lived experiences together to write, direct, and perform in a short film. No...
By Carol Glatz – Sports fans and collectors will have an opportunity to bid on unique items and memorabilia as part of an online charity auction to benefit health care workers in northern Italy. Pope...
Charity / Church / Erin Carelse
by Erin Carelse · Published June 5, 2020 · Last modified June 4, 2020
The bishops’ Justice & Peace Commission (J&P) is negotiating with the United Nations to explore possibilities for a second phase of its food relief initiative. This comes after J&P in partnership with United Nations...
Charity / Christian Living / Church / Crisis
by CNS · Published June 1, 2020 · Last modified May 29, 2020
By Jonathan Luxmoore – Catholic groups across Europe have echoed Pope Francis’ call for a universal basic wage as part of recovery plans after the coronavirus pandemic. “No one in the church should be...
Charity / Christian Living / Church / Crisis
by CNS · Published May 26, 2020 · Last modified May 22, 2020
As public Masses resumed in the Archdiocese of St. Louis on May 18, many Catholics are relieved by being reunited with our eucharistic Lord and with one another. “I am filled with the joy...
Charity / Christian Living / Church / Parish Life
by asiel · Published May 15, 2020 · Last modified May 14, 2020
Fr Lawrence Mduduzi Ndlovu of Our Lady of Peace parish in Roodepoort, Johannesburg, expresses his gratitude to Nomvula Mokonyane after the former government minister came through with a full van of food parcels for...
Bishops / Charity / Christian Living / Church / Crisis
by Kilian SC · Published April 17, 2020 · Last modified April 16, 2020
In an Easter letter to members of popular movements, Pope Francis has suggested that the coronavirus crisis may be an occasion to consider a universal basic wage—and the director of the region’s bishops’ Justice...
Charity / Christian Living / Christian Mission / Church / Crisis / Easter / Raymond Perrier
by Raymond Perrier · Published April 14, 2020 · Last modified April 12, 2020
For many Catholics, this year’s Holy Week is an experience of “virtual church”—those truly observing the lockdown, or people like my parents in their 80s, who are too scared to go outside, have stayed...
By Michael Swan – For the adults with disabilities who are the core members of L’Arche, news that Jean Vanier sexually abused six women over a 35-year period hit particularly hard. At a meeting to...
Radio station Kaya FM and SA Paralympic rower Sandra Khumalo will join forces with Little Eden Society to shine a light on mobility challenges faced by the disabled through the third annual Little Eden...
The Denis Hurley Centre (DHC) will host a retro summer afternoon jazz concert and old-style tea dance at the Durban Jewish Club on February 16 from 15:00 in the company of musical maestro Melvin...
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