Progress for Arusha’s street children
From “Mkombozi News” June 2008:- In May 2008, Mkombozi sent out a press release detailing the escalation of violence directed at street youth in Arusha town preceding the Leon H.…
Misean Cara
News came through today that the Irish Missionary Resource Service (IMRS) has been rebranded as Misean Cara. This is a Gaelic word meaning “friend of the mission”. There is already…
A Call to Communion
The natural world calls us into communion, several times a day. We are invited to drop our version of things, and enter Earth’s understandings, God’s love palpable in created energies.…
Refugee Children
Extract from a talk “An absence of human rights: Children in Detention” given by Dr Sev Odzowski former Australian Human Rights Commissioner (2000-2005) in Melbourne on 17th June 2008 “In…
Br. Martin J. Fragala receives 2008 Homines Pro Aliis Award
Br. Martin J. Fragala, CFC, received the Homines Pro Aliis Award for 2008 from the New Orleans Province of the Society of Jesus on Sunday, June 8, 2008. The Homines…
Two Oaks on a Limestone Ridge
Wandering around our new suburb, Gaillard, I came on a grey granite slab standing upright, under two huge oaks. One simple sentence on the slab informed me that seventy soldiers,…
Draft Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Interesting report from “Zenit” GENEVA, JUNE 6, 2008 (Zenit.org).- A draft protocol being considered by the U.N. Human Rights Council will effectively “fill a gap” in the international human rights…
Interesting Website
The logo above is that used by An Táirseach, an Irish eco-spirituality centre in Wicklow, the Garden of Ireland. Currently, Fergus Reilly cfc is on sabbatical there. It provides programmes…
Combatting Human Trafficking
Right now Franciscans International is hosting a week-long training session for people involved in the prevention of trafficking around the world. Coincidentally, the United Nations itself hosted at thematic event…
T.I. Murphy Centre, Newfoundland Canada
The T.I. Murphy Centre, named for a wonderful Christian Brother of Newfoundland, operates now in a portion of The College of the North Atlantic in St. John’s Newfoundland. The Murphy…