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Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand has welcomed a Government move against unsafe overseas adoptions, but says stronger safeguards and reforms are needed.
New Zealand’s fertility rate remains well below that required for population replacement, according to Stats NZ figures. Source: Radio New Zealand.
The Marist Brothers have opened their first school in Timor-Leste in an area of pastoral priority for the local Church.
The Moran Chapel in the Octagon in Dunedin is about to close, with the final Mass there to be celebrated on September 26. Source: Otago Daily Times.
Food insecurity is at the highest level in more than a decade, with more than one in four New Zealand children living in households where food runs out sometimes or often. Source: The Salvation Army.
The derelict former Holy Name Seminary building in Christchurch has been stripped of its heritage protections, clearing the path for possible demolition. Source: The Press.
Ministry leaders in healthcare, aged care, community services and education from Australia and New Zealand reflected on hope and hospitality at a recent conference.
The Holy See’s permanent observer to the United Nations has pushed back on a report that links women’s social development to legalised abortion. Source: Catholic World News.
Pope Leo XIV has highlighted the value of the vow of obedience in institutes of religious life as a “school of freedom in love”. Source: Catholic News Agency.
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