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The Ministry of Education received 15 applications from state-integrated schools seeking to increase their maximum rolls last year – almost double the total of eight applications it received in 2022. Source: New Zealand Herald.
Volunteers contributed 35 million hours of effort to registered charities in Aotearoa New Zealand, according to 2026 data from Charities Services.
Pope Leo XIV has lamented that prayer is no longer being passed on in many Christian families and urged the faithful to rediscover it as a fundamental dimension of human life. Source: EWTN News.
A new collaboration between seven of New Zealand’s largest charitable reuse organisations, including the Society of St Vincent de Paul, is highlighting the extraordinary impact of op shops across Aotearoa New Zealand.
The New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services has expressed concern that a Bill before Parliament might threaten the sustainability of some supervised contact services for children.
A refurbished boarding hostel of Hato Pāora College near Feilding was opened last month.
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Restoration work is progressing well at Sacred Heart Marble Church in Takaka, with a quarter of the funds needed having been raised.
Australia’s Catholic bishops have called for a renewed focus on ways to make their nation a more cohesive society. Source: ACBC Media Blog.
The Archdiocese of Chicago is the first diocese in the United States to create a memorial in a Catholic cemetery for survivors and lives lost to suicide. Source: Chicago Catholic.