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Carolyn Merry who will be riding from Sydney to Melbourne and is supported by the Australian Catholic Religious Against Trafficking in Humans (ACRATH) to highlight the incidence of human trafficking throughout the world including into Australia

Further Information contact Carolyn at:

c.merry@cycleagainstthetraffik.com

 

IF YOU WANT TO CULTIVATE PEACE,
PROTECT CREATION

2010 World Peace Day Message of

His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI

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We stand in solidarity with our Indigenous brothers and sisters on their pilgrimage in search of faith and justice.

The past cannot be undone, but honest recognition of past injustices can lead to measures and attitudes which will help to rectify the damaging effects for both the indigenous community
and the wider society.

Pope John Paul II

“This Is What We Said”
Australian Aboriginal people give their views on the Northern Territory Intervention



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Pope Benedict XVI's third encyclical Caritas in Veritate urges a renewal of the global financial order based on "an ethics which is people centred" with the goal of common good

[more here]

 

 

AFRICAN AUSTRALIANS

The Justice and Peace Office in conjunction with the Catholic Migrant and Refugee Office is holding a series of meetings to gather information on the settlement experiences of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers from Africa.

Everyone is welcome

Saint Anthony’s Parish, Noble Park


Pierre Kazadi, Jean-Claude Mutumbo & Tewelde Kidane

 

FAIR TRADE

Nearly half the world's chocolate is made from cocoa grown in the Cote D'Ivoire, in Africa.

Thousands of children have been trafficked into cocoa farms in Cote D'Ivoire. When we buy chocolate we are being forced to be oppressors ourselves as we do not know that the chocolate we eat is 'traffik free'.


Child labour in the Ivory Coast


Fair Trade Easter Eggs

Stop the Traffik Australia is encouraging consumers to ask chocolate manufacturers to sign up to the Stop the Traffik ‘Traffik Free Chocolate Pledge'

Visit the Stop the Traffik website [ here ]

STOP PRESS:

Launch of Fair Trade Clerical Collars
Rev. Jason Kioa (Uniting Church Victoria) Anglican Bishop Phillip Huggins and Fr Bob Maguire, holding Fair Trade Easter eggs and wearing Clerical Shirts made under the Fair Trade label


STAND UP DAY 2009

Millions around the world STAND UP in support of the UN Development Goals


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"It remains an obligation in justice and the service of human dignity to attain and even surpass the Millennium Development Goals"
Cardinal Angelo Sodano
Vatican Secretary of State

For further information phone (03) 99265710 or email justice@melbourne.catholic.org.au

BENENSON SOCIETY IS BORN

Returning to its fundamental principle of protecting human rights, Sydney School Principal, Fr Chris Midelton SJ has formed the Benenson Society, named in honour of Catholic Lawyer,
Peter Benenson - founder of Amnesty International.

Find out more about the Society, and join online at

www.BenensonSociety.org


Benenson Society

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL alienates Catholic membership [More] [Further]

Vatican becomes the
"World's First Carbon Neutral State" [More here]
Pope gets top Green Rating [More here]

Further details on any of these events can be obtained by contacting the Office for Justice and Peace on (03) 9926 5710 or justice@melbourne.catholic.org.au