Newsletter

As Christians each of us is called to be a person of prayer and each of us has to discover the kind of prayer – or rather the kind of setting for prayer – that suits us best. What matters is that we pray. The methods we adopt are of secondary importance and depend to a great extent on knowledge of ourselves, of our strengths and weaknesses.

The Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) reported earlier this week that the number of volunteers in Australia has been steadily falling each year. Sadly, a sign of the times perhaps but people say they are too busy. However, not everyone is focussed on their own lot in life and are happy to give back to their local communities, as Suvi Mahonen reports.

A woman’s rights over her own body versus the rights of the unborn has been one of society’s most contentious issues. The line in the sand has long been drawn, and proponents on either side refuse to give an inch.

On a warm spring night in April 1968, in the Zeitoun district of Cairo, Egypt, two workers saw a woman on the top of Saint Mary’s Coptic Church. The workers, thinking that she was about to jump from the roof, called the police who claimed the two men were witnessing a reflection from the street lamps.

When I was 19 weeks pregnant, my husband Christian and I went to our ultrasound appointment excited for a gender reveal! Everyone in our family thought we were having a boy, and we wanted a boy too, a baby brother for our older daughter, Lara, who was almost four.

We are being asked to support the 116,000 Australians who sadly are homeless. The call coincides with Homelessness Week which runs until Sunday.

Responding to the financial crises and homelessness, we are called to sign the petition for Everybody’s Home.