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HIgher Education

University to increase education opportunities in Western Sydney

The University of Notre Dame Australia has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Liverpool City Council, reflecting the University’s commitment to providing close-to-home education opportunities to Western Sydney residents.

Religious Freedom Ukraine

Ukraine accuses Russia of  killing clergy and banning religions in occupied areas

Russian forces have killed almost 70 clergy and destroyed more than 630 places of worship in Ukraine since the start of its 2022 invasion, according to Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Source: OSV News.

Diplomacy Middle East

Vatican diplomats discuss possible paths to Middle East peace 

The Vatican’s top diplomat met with papal representatives to various Middle Eastern countries to discuss possible avenues toward peace in the region and the state of the Catholic Church there. Source: Catholic Review.

Eastern Rite India

Violent protest ends after rebel priests strike deal with Syro-Malabar leadership

Clergy in the Syro-Malabar Church’s primatial see in India ended a protest outside the archbishop’s residence after agreeing a truce with the new diocesan leadership. Source: The Tablet.

Diplomacy Pope Francis

Pope speaks to ambassadors on ‘a diplomacy of hope’

During the Holy Year 2025, the international community should strive “to overcome the logic of confrontation and embrace instead the logic of encounter”, Pope Francis told ambassadors and other diplomats accredited to the Holy See. Source: CNS.

Disability Mental Health

Labor invests $42m in nation’s first national autism strategy

Labor is investing $42 million in a nation-first plan to improve the lives of autistic Australians, with a new push to boost scientific research and give neurodiverse people more peer support. Source: The Australian. 

Ordination

Deacon reflects on his journey to the priesthood

Deacon Ashan Peiris is preparing for his ordination to the priesthood at St Mary’s Cathedral in Hobart next month. Source: Hobart Archdiocese.

Immigration

‘Christmas miracle’ sees family reunited after 12-year separation

It was a Christmas to remember for former Tamil refugee Redson Selvam as he joyfully reunited with his family after 12 long years of separation. Source: The Catholic Leader.

Chaplaincy

Archbishop Fisher honours prison chaplain with lifetime achievement award

For three decades, Margaret Wiseman has accompanied women in prison, seen God in the faces of convicted murderers, and deep inner growth in people she has heard rejected as “scum”. Source: The Catholic Weekly.