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Trump opposes Albanese’s tech agenda
United States President Donald Trump has delivered a major blow to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s tech agenda by telling world leaders he would oppose a push to create an international body to oversee AI regulation. Source: The Australian.
Cut funding from program that denigrates Catholic beliefs: Archbishop Fisher
Sydney Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP has called on the New South Wales Government to withdraw public funding from a controversial arts venture after it announced three events at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. Source: The Catholic Weekly.
Vinnies sees spike in requests for food assistance
More than half of Australians are buying less food than they would like because of rising grocery costs, according to new YouGov research commissioned by the St Vincent de Paul Society NSW.
Archbishop Coleridge’s autobiography a ‘personal, spiritual, historic journey’
Many faces and names from the life and ministry of Archbishop Emeritus Mark Coleridge welcomed the launch of his autobiography, A Strange Way Home, at Australian Catholic University in Brisbane. Source: The Catholic Leader.
Catholic Mission offering pre-WYD experience in Cambodia
Catholic Mission is inviting youth groups, parishes, dioceses and schools from across Australia to make Cambodia part of their journey to World Youth Day 2027, through a unique pre-World Youth Day Mission Exposure trip from July 27 to August 1, 2027.
Looking beyond dementia
This Dementia Action Week (September 21-27), Catholic aged and disability service organisation VMCH is encouraging people to look beyond a dementia diagnosis and recognise the person behind it.
NZ Catholic leaders publish inquiry response update
New Zealand’s bishops and leaders of religious orders have published an update on the Church’s ongoing work to respond to the country’s Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care. Source: NZCBC.
Pope urged to save Ukrainians starving in Russian blockade
Ukraine’s religious leaders are pleading with Pope Leo XIV and global faith leaders, as well as the international community, to “use every available means” to save Ukrainian civilians facing starvation amid a Russian blockade. Source: OSV News.
Church in Congo mourns 27 children killed in school fires
Catholic schoolchildren gathered at a parish in Bukavu, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on September 17 to mourn 27 classmates killed in a fire that devastated two schools and homes across the city. Source: OSV News.