International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination 21 March Children in a camp for internally displaced people in Haiti. UN Photo/Logan Abassi 2019 Theme: Mitigating and countering rising nationalist populism and extreme supremacist ideologies Racist extremist movements based on ideologies that seek to promote populist, nationalist agendas are spreading in various parts of… Continue Reading Intl Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination_21st March 2019
International Women’s Day_8th March 2019 The origins of the International Women’s Day can be traced to the labour movements that emerged at the return of the twentieth century in North America and Europe. In 1910 Clara Zetkin, the leader of Women’s Office of Germany’s Social Democratic Party tabled the idea of an International Women’s Day… Continue Reading International Women’s Day_8th March 2019
CREATE A CLEAN UP JOIN A CLEAN UP DONATE Who we are Act Now Resources Clean Up Australia Day 2019 Change starts with you. Event Dates 2019 Business Clean Up Day – Tuesday 26 February 2019 Youth and Schools Clean Up Day – Friday 1 March 2019 Clean Up Australia Day –… Continue Reading Clean Up Australia Day_3rd March 2019
Project Compassion On Ash Wednesday, Caritas Australia, the international aid and development agency of the Catholic Church, launches its annual Project Compassion appeal – one of Australia’s largest humanitarian fundraising and awareness raising campaigns. Project Compassion runs through the six weeks of Lent. It brings together communities across the country in solidarity with the… Continue Reading Project Compassion Sunday_3rd March 2019
http://www.wildlifeday.org/ An African male lion in the Ugandan wilderness. Photo WCS /Julie Larsen Maher “On World Wildlife Day, I call on people around the world to help raise awareness and to take personal action to help ensure the survival of the world’s big cats and all its precious and fragile biological diversity.” — UN Secretary-General António… Continue Reading World Wildlife Day_3rd March 2019
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https://www.reconciliation.org.au/what-is-reconciliation/ https://www.socialjustice.catholic.org.au/files/SJSandresources/2006_SJS_Statement.pdf The Heart of Our Country: Dignity and Justice for our Indigenous Brothers and Sisters (2006 Social Justice Statement from the ACBC) Let us Pray: O God, the source of all that is human, it is in your image that we are created. Be present with us, as we consider the importance of… Continue Reading 2008: Apology to the Stolen Generations by Australian Government
Catholic Mission concert held to raise awareness to those less fortunate 07 Feb 2019 by The Record Lumina, a Western Australian based ensemble under the direction of Cameron van Reyk, perform during Catholic Mission’s Christmas concert on 6 December. Photo: Supplied. By Olivia Bunter The pews at St Patrick’s Basilica in Fremantle were filled with… Continue Reading Catholic Mission concert held to raise awareness to those less fortunate
Welcome to PlenaryPost As Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB, the Plenary Council 2020 president, said last week, it was hard to know how many people would grasp the opportunity to consider “what God is asking of us in Australia at this time”. Through the end of 2018, the answer was “more than 40,000” – people who… Continue Reading Plenary Post_Edition 13
FEBRUARY Universal: For a generous welcome of the victims of human trafficking, of enforced prostitution, and of violence. Human Trafficking “Although we try to ignore it, slavery is not something from other times. Faced with this tragic reality, no one can wash their hands of it without being, in some way, an accomplice to this crime against humanity.… Continue Reading Pope Francis’ Universal Prayer Intention for February 2019
The Australian Catholic Social Justice Council’s (ACSJC) Briefing for January is now up on the website. The Briefing covers issues of Catholic social teaching in Febuary 2019, highlighting resources, media items and diary events. It can be read here (ACSJC_Monthly Briefing_No 208) Featuring: From the Secretariat Current Issues/Resources ACSJC Publications News Monitor Social Justice DiaryNational | ACT | NSW | NT | QLD | SA | TAS | VIC Social Justice Events (WA)… Continue Reading Australian Catholic Social Justice Council_February 2019 Briefing
What is a Retreat? Kalangan Road Galong NSW Retreat Flyer
Thousands of migrant workers, mainly from Egypt and Tunisia, wait to cross into Tunisia from Libya. UNHCR/A Duclos “Migrant workers, like all workers, are entitled to fair treatment and fair treatment for migrant workers is also key to preserving the social fabric of our societies and to sustainable development.” — Message from ILO Director-General, Mr. Guy Ryders… Continue Reading World Day of Social Justice_20th February 2019
Hope as the Antidote (Feb. 2019) St John of God Health Care and the L J Goody Bioethics Centre are pleased to invite palliative care specialist A/Prof Natasha Michael to two events in Perth on Thursday 14 February 2019. If you work in palliative or end of life care (as a doctor, nurse, pharmacist, pastoral… Continue Reading Hope as the Antidote_14th February 2019
Message of His Holiness Pope Francis “You received without payment; give without payment” (Mt 10:8) Dear Brothers and Sisters, “You received without payment; give without payment” (Mt 10:8). These are the words spoken by Jesus when sending forth his apostles to spread the Gospel, so that his Kingdom might grow through acts of gratuitous love.… Continue Reading 27th World Day of the Sick_11th February 2019
Read current and past issues of the JEDO Newsletter here, and catch up on the social justice work of the Justice, Ecology and Development Office within the Catholic Archdiocese of Perth. Continue Reading
The use of acknowledgement plaques on entrances to homes, churches, workplaces and other buildings, serve to remind Australians of the presence of the Aboriginal people in our land millennia before the making of the Australian colonies and the Australian nation Continue Reading Aboriginal Acknowledgement Plaque Orders