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Mission

Madalena cooks up plan for the future

Catholic Mission, the Australian agency of the Pontifical Mission Societies, is helping to change lives and give a voice to the youth of Timor-Leste. 

Mission Refugees

Catholic Mission calls for parish support for refugee families program 

This Refugee Week, Catholic Mission is inviting parishes to take action and open their hearts and arms to sponsor refugee families to help them to settle into their new life in Australia.

Health Mission Religious Orders

Partnership promotes interfaith ties in Pakistan

In a new partnership, Catholic Mission Australia is working with the Columban Mission Society to strengthen the Catholic healthcare system in Pakistan, helping to promote interfaith relations in the majority Muslim nation. Source: The Catholic Weekly.

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Catholic Mission conference ‘a transformative experience’

After three days of reflection, inspiration and dialogue on the future of mission, the Mission: One Heart Many Voices conference concluded on Friday. Source: Catholic Mission.

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Message of truth and reconciliation unites hearts and minds

The Mission: One Heart Many Voices conference, hosted by Catholic Mission, began in Sydney yesterday, focusing on themes of truth-telling, reconciliation and synodality.

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Mission conference to take place one year after Plenary Council

Catholic Mission’s sixth biennial Mission: One Heart Many Voices conference returns for a face-to-face event in Sydney next week.

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Pope’s message inspires Catholic Mission

Inspired by the Pope’s message for World Mission Sunday, Catholic Mission is this year raising awareness of the work of lay and religious missionaries around the world with the theme, “Hearts on Fire, Feet on the Move”. 

Ecology Mission

Missionaries called to prioritise migration, climate change

Catholic missionaries need to prioritise migration and refugee issues, climate change and the coexistence of various cultures in their missionary works, says the head of the Columban missionaries. Source: UCA News.

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Peter’s picture picked for Vatican competition

A Melbourne Catholic primary school student’s artwork has been selected as Australia’s winning entry to an international drawing competition and will now go all the way to the Vatican. Source: Catholic Mission.