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NT Government to draft voluntary assisted dying bill
Voluntary assisted dying laws will be introduced to the Northern Territory Parliament, with the Country Liberal Government confirming yesterday it will move ahead with drafting a bill. Source: NT News.
We must all care for our common home: Pope
People of faith cannot love God while despising his creatures, and people cannot call themselves Christians without caring for everything fragile and wounded, including the earth, Pope Leo XIV told climate activists and political and religious leaders yesterday. Source: CNS.
Bishop will be remembered as ‘dedicated servant of the Church’
Bishop Peter Stasiuk CSsR, Bishop Emeritus of the Melbourne Eparchy of Sts Peter and Paul for Ukrainian Catholics in Australia, New Zealand and Oceania, was farewelled at a funeral liturgy in Melbourne yesterday. Source: Melbourne Catholic.
Butler under fire over plans to cut spending
Health Minister Mark Butler’s plans to rein in spending on the $220 billion care sector are coming under attack, as state premiers take Labor to task over hospital funding and disability reform. Source: The Age.
Conference in the key of ‘sacrament and song’
Visitors from the United States and Fiji were among more than 400 delegates who attended the first day of a major music and liturgy conference in Adelaide yesterday. Source: The Southern Cross.
Special delivery helping save babies in Bangladesh
Caritas Australia is calling on the community to support its “Women for the World” appeal today, which has a special focus on maternal health in Bangladesh.
Indonesian Catholics mobilise after building at Islamic school collapses
Following the collapse on Monday of a historic Islamic boarding school in East Java that, so far, has left three students dead and about 100 injured, the local bishop has said that Catholics are mobilising to take part in relief efforts. Source: Crux.
Catholic organisations urge Congress to end US Government shutdown
Catholic organisations called for a swift resolution to the United States Government shutdown to mitigate the potential harm to government-funded programs serving the poor and vulnerable. Source: CNA.
Central African Republic music school changes the region through culture
A Capuchin-run music school and radio station in Central African Republic is bringing hope and the Gospel to young people in one of the poorest and most unstable countries in the world. Source: OSV News.