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Migrant deaths since 2014 ‘nothing short of a tragedy’
A new International Organisation for Migration report has found approximately 7900 migrants died or went missing in 2025, bringing the total since 2014 to more than 80,000 deaths. Source: Crux.
German cardinal instructs priests to bless same-sex couples
Cardinal Reinhard Marx, archbishop of Munich and Freising, has instructed priests and full-time pastoral staff to use a pastoral guide to bless couples who cannot or do not wish to enter into canonical marriage, including same-sex couples. Source: EWTN News.
Pakistan Christians protest after court ruling in ‘Maria case’
Christians in Pakistan are protesting a controversial court ruling that upheld the marriage of a 13-year-old Christian girl to a 30-year-old Muslim man, a case widely known as the “Maria’s case”. Source: OSV News.
Pope Leo remembers Francis as ‘a caring shepherd’
On the first anniversary of Pope Francis’s death, Pope Leo XIV praised his predecessor’s “courageous witness” as “a significant heritage for the Church”. Source: OSV News.
Butler to unveil system overhaul in pre-budget speech
Health Minister Mark Butler will unveil fixes to the country’s aged care system alongside his overhaul of the National Disability Insurance Scheme in his pre-budget speech on two of the Government’s fastest-growing cost pressures. Source: The Age.
Pope urges love over stigma in Equatorial Guinea
Pope Leo closed out his first day in Equatorial Guinea by visiting a psychiatric hospital in a culture where mental illness is often stigmatised, saying God loves each person as they are and seeks their healing. Source: Crux.
ACU launches PhD scholarship to address safeguarding challenges
Australian Catholic University has launched a PhD scholarship to address a growing number of safeguarding challenges, including a large increase in student-on-student abuse in schools nationwide.
New video a simple, accessible guide for ‘seekers’
Sydney Archdiocese has launched a new video introducing the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, as more people enquire about and enter the Church across Australia. Source: The Catholic Weekly.
Clock strikes for Canberra’s Good Sams
A grandfather clock with nearly a century of history has been returned to the Canberra-Goulburn Archdiocese, marking the end of a long association with the Sisters of the Good Samaritan as they prepare to leave Canberra. Source: Catholic Voice.