A Catholic Church organization formed to compensate residential school survivors spent $6.46m, or more than a quarter of its funds on expenses. The organization also returned nearly $600,000 to church organizations after a 2015 court settlement, financial records obtained by The Globe and Mail reveal. The documents detail the finances of the Corporation of Catholic Read more
About 4000 bunches of bright yellow daffodils sit in a cooler at a Waikato farm ready for Daffodil Day. Thousands more are yet to be picked in the field. A lot of those flowers will now likely go to waste, with the Cancer Society’s biggest fundraiser of the year cancelled this week because of the Read more
The planned demolition of a Catholic church was put on hold owing to protests by a civil society group in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi. “Thank you for participating in the campaign to #SaveStJosephChurch from demolition,” Karachi Bachao Tehreek (Save Karachi Movement) said in a statement on Aug 23. “Due to our collective resistance, Read more
Pope Francis will send over $230,000 (NZD330,000) in aid for victims of the Haiti earthquake, which struck Aug 14. The amount is “an initial contribution” to help the people of Haiti “in this emergency phase,” according to the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Promotion of Integral Human Development. In an Aug 24 press release, the dicastery Read more
Caritas Pakistan has alerted its diocesan units bordering neighboring Afghanistan to help refugees fleeing the Taliban’s takeover of the country, reported ucanews.com. Thousands of Afghans have entered Pakistan via the Chaman border crossing, one of the most active trade and travel routes between the countries, according to media reports. However, Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad Read more
For the first time in 41 years, Christchurch’s largest mosque cannot afford to pay its imam. Gamal Fouda, who became a public figure in the aftermath of the March 15, 2019, terrorist attack, is no longer a paid employee of Masjid An-Nur (Al Noor Mosque). The religious leader will continue in a voluntary role with Read more
Khieu Samphan, the former head of state for the Khmer Rouge, told his UN-backed war crimes trial today that he expects to die alone in prison after appealing his conviction for genocide in a drama-filled last speech. “After many years of sitting as a defendant at the end of this long case, it is important Read more
Taualoa Lalopua Sanele is no stranger to awards. She received a Queen’s Service Medal for the Queen’s Birthday Honours this year for her services to the union movement and Samoan community. But still, she was shocked to receive an Absolutely Positively Wellingtonian Award from the Wellington City Council this year. Since coming to New Zealand Read more
Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke has been removed from a ventilator and will move from the ICU to a hospital room as he continues to battle COVID-19. According to an Aug 21 update on the cardinal’s health, Burke was able to speak by phone with his sister on Saturday morning and “expressed his deep gratitude for Read more
The Vatican has imposed penalties on another Catholic bishop in Poland after he was found to have mishandled cases of sexual abuse of minors by priests in his diocese. Retired archbishop Marian Gołębiewski was sanctioned following an investigation carried out under the norms of Pope Francis’ motu proprio Vos estis lux mundi, according to an Read more