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...
Charity / Christian Living / Church / Letter of the Week
by Letters Editor · Published January 24, 2020
Lucy Rubin, Pretoria – In his column “How justice trumps charity” (December 25), Fr Ron Rolheiser describes a river town whose people constantly bury the dead who float past but do not seek the...
Abortion / Charity / Christian Living / Church / Crisis / Erin Carelse
by Erin Carelse · Published January 8, 2020 · Last modified January 5, 2020
Mater Domini Home in Cape Town is in need of donations and funding to continue to provide a safe and nurturing environment to women in crisis pregnancies and to protect unborn children. “A restructuring...
Catholic Welfare and Development (CWD) will continue its annual “Buckets of Love” campaign this year, despite not being operational and in the process of closure — and an East London parish has picked up...
Charity / Church / Erin Carelse
by Erin Carelse · Published November 25, 2019 · Last modified December 1, 2019
Two staff members of a learning centre run by the now-defunct Catholic Welfare Department (CWD) in Cape Town used their retrenchment packages to keep the centre’s doors open. When CWD closed down last year,...
Charity / Church / Erin Carelse
by Erin Carelse · Published November 14, 2019 · Last modified December 5, 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...
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