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In The Dioceses Refugees

Community converts empty convent into home for Ukrainian refugees

A community effort to transform an empty convent in the Bathurst Diocese into a home for Ukrainian refugees has paid off, with two families moving in last weekend. Source: ABC News.

Refugees

Research reveals need for investment in refugee resettlement hotspots

Place-based investment is urgently needed to help Australia’s major settlement cities meet the needs of growing refugee communities, according to new research by Australian Catholic University and the Edmund Rice Centre.

Opinion Refugees

Our chance to reset policy on asylum-seekers and refugees

Australia’s policies in relation to asylum-seekers and refugees in recent years have been unnecessarily mean, but the election of the Albanese Government provides a chance for a reset, writes Fr Frank Brennan SJ. Source: Eureka Street.

Refugees

Kabul terrorist attack ‘a wake-up’ call for Australia

Jesuit Refugee Service Australia is urging the Albanese Government to hasten its response to refugees from Afghanistan, speeding up special humanitarian visas and transitioning temporary and safe haven visa holders to permanency.

Refugees

Mentoring program to offer refugee families support

Parishes, school communities and Church agencies in the Brisbane Archdiocese are being invited to welcome and sponsor refugee families as part of a new initiative. Source: The Catholic Leader.