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Refugees

‘They are your brothers and sisters’: Catholics pray for refugees

Catholics across Australia gathered online this week for a prayer service for Refugee Week and were encouraged to look around their local parish and pay attention to those who have fled their homes in search of a new life. Source: Melbourne Catholic.

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Vinnies use Refugee Week to call for end to offshore detention

As Refugee Week begins, the St Vincent de Paul Society is calling on the Albanese Government to end Australia’s offshore detention system and to treat asylum-seekers in the community with dignity.

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Church support helps Tamil refugee secure visa

Members of Brisbane’s Darra Jindalee parish are celebrating after a fellow parishioner and Tamil refugee was granted a visa to stay in Australia. Source: The Catholic Leader.

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Partnership helps refugees and asylum-seekers get to work

Mercy Community’s Romero Centre and Logix Engineering have partnered to provide refugees and asylum seekers in Brisbane with much-needed experience through a series of successful work placements.

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Budget ‘creates uncertainty’ about humanitarian intake

The Catholic Alliance for People Seeking Asylum is concerned that the Albanese Government has not funded the expansion of Australia’s humanitarian program despite committing to raise the humanitarian intake to 27,000 places over four years at last year’s election. 

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People should be free to choose, not forced, to migrate: Pope

Everyone should be free – not forced – to leave their homeland, to remain in their new host nation and to return to their country of origin, Pope Francis says in his message for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees. Source: CNS.

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Palm Sunday rallies demand permanent visas for refugees

Hundreds of activists gathered at Palm Sunday rallies around the country yesterday to demand the Commonwealth give permanent visas for refugees stuck in limbo. Source: SBS/AAP.

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Vinnies calls on Australians to support refugees on Palm Sunday 

The St Vincent de Paul Society is urging Australians to march for refugee justice on Palm Sunday, with rallies to be held across the country this weekend.

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Vigil held for Sri Lankan asylum-seeker facing imminent deportation

Brisbane parishioners last night held a last-minute prayer vigil in support of a Sri Lankan asylum-seeker who faces deportation as early as tomorrow, despite his wife and child having the right to remain in Australia under recent changes to immigration policy. Source: The Catholic Leader.