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Jesuits shelter 'refugees' during May crisis
Bernard Hyacinth Aputhasamy SJ 9 June 2010
As the Thai capital faced a dramatic climax to a nine-week standoff between anti-government protesters and troops on Wednesday May 19, the Jesuit community in Bangkok opened its doors to a group of 'Bangkok refugees'.
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Cecily McNeill 30 July 2009
Next month Timor-Leste celebrates 10 years of independence as a proud but fragile nation.
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Rosa Moiwend visits Wellington as a guest of Wellington Peacemakers
Cecily McNeill 30 July 2009
But the forests have been decimated by foreign logging companies, particularly P T Intimpura which exports logs to countries like New Zealand. The Merbau tree in the Papuan forest is sold in New Zealand as Kwila for decking. The West Papuans want the government to limit the companies' licences to slow down the rate of logging.
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Gillian Vine 5 May 2009
As a supporter of West Papuan independence from Indonesia, Fr Neles Tebay is on a black list and everywhere he goes in his homeland, West Papua, he is under constant surveillance by the Indonesian authorities who rule the western half of the island of New Guinea and at risk of imprisonment, torture and even death
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Tim O'Connor 6 June 2008
The international Caritas relief effort is now targeting more than 60,000 people through local partners with food, temporary shelter, health care and other aid items in four of the most seriously affected areas of Myanmar despite ongoing difficulties with access for international aid teams.
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30 April 2008
Caritas is urging the UN Security Council to impose an immediate arms embargo on Zimbabwe.
Church leaders in the country say that without international intervention Zimbabweans face genocide.
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30 April 2008
Fr Karunaratnam played a key role in promoting peace in the conflict between government troops and Tamil minority rebels.
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30 April 2008
Ramos-Horta, 58, returned from Darwin last week (April 20) after treatment for bullet wounds sustained in the February 11 assassination attempt outside his home.
Rebel leader Alfredo Alves Reinado was killed at the scene.
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Fr Mark Raper appointed President of Jesuit Conference of East Asia and Oceania
Cecily McNeill 9 April 2008
‘Moreover, the Society in Asia has much to offer other parts of the world. If we work together well, quite a lot of people can be considerably helped. The openness demonstrated in our Province by Jesuit and lay members to collaboration with one another across our ministries, and increasingly across Asia and the Pacific, gives me greater confidence in undertaking this new mission.’
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Mahitahi sends three
Christina Reymer 4 April 2008
The New Zealand agency Mahitahi Catholic Overseas Volunteers, sent three volunteers, Dr Alice Guidera, Alex McDonald (civil engineer), and Simon Allison (builder), in October–November 2007 to help in the Shortland Is, Western Province of the Solomon Islands, with post-tsunami and earthquake reconstruction and rehabilitation.
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Discovering a living
Caritas staff 5 November 2007
Caritas International Programmes Manager, Tara D'Sousa arrived in Timor Leste just days after violence had subsided following announcement of a new government. She describes some of the projects she did manage to visit.
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A look at the origins of the six-day war 40 years ago
Gerard Burns 9 July 2007
Recent TV news has featured gun battles between Palestinians in the Gaza strip. This infighting is rooted in the establishment of Israel in 1948 and its 1967 war of expansion.
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Timorese go to the polls to choose a new government.
Cecily McNeill 9 July 2007
Counting is expected to be underway in Timor Leste this weekend as the country chooses the government in the second parliament since the tiny Pacific nation gained independence from Indonesia in 1999.
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6 July 2007
A Chaldean Catholic priest, Fr Ragheed, and three of his deacons, were murdered in the Iraqi city of Mosul on 3 June as they left the Church of the Holy Spirit after Sunday services.
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US peace activist John Dear SJ in Australia
Cecily McNeill 3 April 2007
Fr John Dear has been travelling through Australia with his impassioned message modelled on Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, speaking out against the '35 wars' throughout the world, in all of which America is involved.
His protesting has led him many times to the Pentagon with friends to carry out such creatively nonviolent actions as sitting on the floor in the foyer outside the lifts and reading aloud the names of those who have been killed in the Iraq war.
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Robert Mickens, Mark Brolly, Christa Pongratz-Lippitt, Graham Keeley 3 April 2007
Even in Rome, however, not all the reactions avoided criticism of the judgement against Fr Jon Sobrino. While recognising that his confrère may not have clearly expressed the traditional teachings on Christology, the press officer for the Society of Jesus in Rome, Fr Jose de Vera SJ, pointed out that Fr Sobrino's theology was forged in a unique situation of working with the poor.
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3 April 2007
Controversial Swiss theologian and papal critic, Fr Hans Kung, says that he has a right to be part of what he describes as Pope Benedict's 'loyal opposition'.
Canadian Catholic News reports that Fr Kung says that he has a 'right to be in his holiness' loyal opposition', representing thousands of liberal-leaning Catholics who remain disappointed the Second Vatican Council renewal did not go far enough.
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... from the Indonesia-East Timor Truth Commission
2 April 2007
Testifying at the Indonesia-East Timor Truth Commission, former Dili Bishop Carlos Belo said that Indonesian forces and their militia allies had systematically razed the diocese's compound as well as other churches, killing several clergy and an unknown number of others.
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2 April 2007
Refugee lawyer Julian Burnside has accused Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews, a Catholic, of betraying his religious principles and breaching international law over the sending of 82 Sri Lankan asylum seekers to detention camps in Nauru.
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Nyi Nyi Aung released from a Burma jungle jail
Tara Bahrampour 30 November 1999
Imprisoned in the Burmese jungle, he'd been beaten, forced to sleep in a kennel in his own excrement, denied medical treatment and told by captors that his US citizenship didn't matter.
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