Mater Homes Nativity Play Celebrates Life
This year’s Nativity play at a home for women with crisis pregnancies, touchingly featured a six-day-old infant. During the play at Mater Domini Home in Cape Town, it was a special moment when the...
Category: Charity
Catholic Welfare & Developments’ Last Act
As a final act of caring before their retrenchment, the staff of Catholic Welfare & Development (CWD) have volunteered their time and labour to ensure that those even less fortunate than they can receive at least a little something this Christmas through the annual Buckets of Love campaign.
Why We Can’t be Silent to Cries of Poor
World Day of the Poor was first proposed in 2016 in Pope Francis’ apostolic letter for the Year of Mercy, Misericordia et misera, which calls on the faithful to “make a serious examination of conscience, to see if we are truly capable of hearing the cry of the poor”.
Little Eden to Hold Annual Christmas Concerts
Little Eden, which is home to 300 children and adults with profound intellectual disability, will present its annual Christmas concerts this month. The Domitilla and Danny Hyams Home in Edenvale, Johannesburg, will hold its...
Shoeless Initiative Raises Funds for Underprivileged
The Catholic Board of Education proposed an initiative to raise awareness and funds for underprivileged Catholic schools around South Africa. Students at Marist Brothers Linmeyer in Johannesburg were asked to come to school in...
Priest Builds House for Poor Family
By Sr Phatsimo Ramokgwebana SC – A priest built a house and then handed it over to a single mother of ten children. Fr Foster Olator is stationed at Lwapa la Lerato parish in Jwaneng,...
You Can Now See the Rare Art of the Sand Mandala
The Denis Hurley Centre in Durban will be hosting the creation of a “sand mandala” this month. This painstaking procedure is a very rare sight to witness. Starting in the week of October 15,...
Stepping up for Orphaned and Vulnerable Children
Orphans and vulnerable children, irrespective of their religious ties, are the focus of a project in the archdiocese of Cape Town. St Kizito’s Children’s Programme is a community-based, non-profit project responding to the Church’s...
Cycle For Those Who Can’t
Little Eden Society is calling on cyclists to “ride together for those who can’t” and help raise funds for the intellectually disabled at November’s 2018 Telkom 94.7 Cycle Challenge in Johannesburg. Last year, 34...
Catholic Women’s League Sisonke Fête in August!
The Catholic Women’s League in Johannesburg archdiocese is gearing up for its Sisonke fête, set to be the biggest yet, with about 60 stalls. The archdiocese’s more than 78 CWL branches will be taking...
Little Eden Head Hands over Baton
Longtime Little Eden CEO Lucy Slaviero, 65, is retiring and the society’s Xelda Rohrbeck, 35, will succeed her from September. The two will be working together over the remaining period to ensure a smooth...
Help St Joseph’sHome to Fund 970 Nappies Daily
Saint Joseph’s Home for chronically ill children in Cape Town has relaunched a “Happy Nappy” campaign, run last year, as a way of saving on the cost of buying disposable nappies.
