Foreigners, Locals Share Views Of One Another
The Justice & Peace Commission (J&P), with the help of the Commission for Refugees and Migrants, hosted a workshop on...
War and Refugees
A Crisis of the Heart and a Crisis of the Soul
Blaming huge numbers of violent killings, assaults, sex crimes and drug overdoses on undocumented immigrants, President Donald Trump in his...
Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen
Aid agencies and Catholic officials are sounding the alarm on Yemen’s spiraling humanitarian crisis, calling on the combatants to end...
Our Call to Welcome the Stranger
Today is World Refugee Day. To mark the occasion, Daluxolo Moloantoa explains how the Catholic Scalabrini centres respond to Christ:...
Commit Yourself to Ending War this Memorial Day
As the United States approaches its annual day to remember the more than 1 million American combatants who have died in the country’s many wars, it is most appropriate to ask ourselves, “What would be the wisest and most loving way to celebrate Memorial Day?”
Stone Soup: Not Just a Moral Tale
Do you remember the childhood story Stone Soup? It’s an old folktale about a couple of hungry travellers who creatively entice hesitant villagers to fill their large cooking pot with delicious soup ingredients.
Teaching Refugee Children: A Decade of Success
To celebrate its tenth anniversary, a project started by a Catholic school for the education of refugee children will hold a special function in April. The Three2Six Refugee Children’s Education Project in Johannesburg was developed by Sacred Heart College in 2008, and later expanded to Observatory Girls Primary School and Holy Family College.
Two Minutes to Midnight: Nuclear War Catastrophe
‘To call the world’s nuclear situation dire is to understate the danger and its immediacy.” This is the warning of Dr Rachel Bronson, president of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
Churches in Syria Say Turkish Bombing is Killing Civilians
Churches in Afrin, Syria, are calling on the world to stop the slaughter of civilians during the Turkish military assault.
