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Contemplation & Action for a Faith that Does Justice

refugees and asylum seekers

Time to Bring Them Here Say Australian Bishops

Posted on Updated 14/10/201614/10/2016 by Sandie
Time to Bring Them Here Say Australian Bishops

In a 13 October 2016 statement the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference calls on the Australian government to bring asylum seekers held on Nauru and Manus Island to Australia. Conference President, Archbishop Hart, got behind the Bring Them Here campaign: We endorse the campaign to Bring Them Here to Australia. We pledge the help of our […]

Immediate Action needed on Nauru Files

Posted on Updated 17/08/2016 by Sandie
Immediate Action needed on Nauru Files

Director of the Australian Catholic Migrant and Refugee Office, Fr Maurizio Pettena calls for immediate action on the allegations made in the leaked Nauru files. The Nauru files detail numerous alleged incidents of physical and sexual abuse of detainees at Australia’s offshore immigration detention centre. Fr Pettena expressed “grave concern that more than half of […]

Community Sponsorship for Refugees in New Zealand

Posted on Updated 17/06/2016 by Sandie
Community Sponsorship for Refugees in New Zealand

Bishop Patrick Dunn, President of the New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference, has welcomed an increase in New Zealand’s refugee intake, and the pilot of a community sponsorship program. He acknowledged that New Zealand’s contribution is modest and pointed to the need to address the causes of the refugee crisis, saying: “The extent of the global […]

Migrant & Refugee Sunday 2015

Posted on Updated 29/08/2015 by Sandie

View Bishop Peter Comensoli’s video message to the people of the Broken Bay Diocese in Australia for Migrant & Refugee Sunday 2015. Social Spirituality’s Sandie Cornish helps out. She spells out the calls to offer friendship, be informed, and promote social inclusion a little more in the text below. We may not be able to […]

Environmental Refugees

Posted on Updated 04/09/201520/06/2015 by Sandie

  Pope Francis links the ecological crisis and forced displacement, pointing out that those forcibly  displaced by environmental degradation and climate change are not protected by international humanitarian law.   Environmental refugees are a new category of refugees who are not effectively assisted by the international community. Who are the people in your region who […]

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