ORA Duffley, a former Brisbane Catholic teacher who now works at the United Nations with the Holy See mission, had spent the last three weeks in lockdown in New York City, where more than 10,000 people have died from coronavirus. Ms Duffley said the streets of New York were “surreally quiet”. “I try to walk a little in my neighbourhood ... Read More »
BRISBANE Catholic Ora Duffley, who now works at the United Nations with the Holy See Mission, said she could not believe her eyes when she found out she was nominated for the volunteer award at The Community Leader Awards in 2017. At the time she was teaching in a little Catholic school in Logan when she received an email from ... Read More »
FROM the slums of Djibouti to the bright lights of the Big Apple, former Brisbane Catholic teacher Ora Duffley has found her place in the Holy See delegation to the United Nations in New York, representing the Church to the world. Miss Duffley said her previous mission work was the driving force behind her work in New York. “Africa was ... Read More »
BRISBANE teacher Ora Duffley is putting her faith in God as she prepares for a volunteer mission to help refugees in northern Iraq. “I have prayed about this a lot. It’s a bit of a scary thing to go but I really trust in God. Being a single woman, I’m able to do this and have really felt a calling ... Read More »
FORMER Brisbane Catholic teacher Ora Duffley has welcomed the release of her charity worker friends from captivity in Iraq. French Catholics Antoine Brochon, Julien Dittmar, Alexandre Goodarzy and Iraqi Catholic Tariq Mattoka were released after being held captive for 66 days while working for SOS Chretiens d’Orient in Baghdad. The Catholic charity workers were captured on January 20 and returned ... Read More »
MEDIA experts have recognised The Catholic Leader newspaper as a benchmark for quality Catholic journalism at the 2018 Australasian Catholic Press Association Awards. Journalist Mark Bowling received the award for Best News Story for his story on the disturbing teen “sexting” culture raised by a Catholic school principal in Bundaberg. Mr Bowling also received highly-commended awards for his stories ... Read More »
IRISH mum Susan Erbacher was with her six children in their Forest Lake home when Ireland voted ‘Yes’ to legalising abortion up to 12 weeks. “I was here with my children on Saturday morning, and they had been asking me about it because they had prayed hard for a ‘no’ vote,” Mrs Erbacher said. “I didn’t tell them for a ... Read More »
Brisbane Catholic woman and teacher Ora Duffley shares what it’s like to be in St Peter’s Square with thousands of pilgrims from around the world for the Divine Mercy Sunday Mass with Pope Francis. The Mass was celebrated in Rome overnight. A GLORIOUS morning dawned in Vatican City on April 8, the kind when one could not be anything ... Read More »
HOW did a female bank owner with US$2 million to her name come to lose everything but the pyjamas on her back? It was the question 35-year-old Frenchman Benjamin Blanchard asked as he sat in a refugee camp with a woman in pyjamas who had fled from Islamic terrorists. “She had very beautiful houses in Mosul, maybe many beautiful houses, ... Read More »
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