The Catholic Leader Keeping Faith with You

CYCLONE Idai has wrought “massive disaster” across southern Africa that could affect millions. The cyclone made landfall in Mozambique’s central port city of Beira on March 14, and cut the city off, trapping 500,000 people. Cyclone Idai wreaked havoc – official estimates say it could leave almost a million people in destitution and millions more in dire circumstances. The city’s ... Read More »

NIGERIA’S bishops have asked every Catholic priest in the country to celebrate a Mass and laity to stage a peaceful protest while 19 people who were killed during Mass are laid to eternal rest. Sr Anna Abba, the Superior general of the Sisters of the Nativity, told The Catholic Leader that her country’s Bishops requested all dioceses to hold a ... Read More »

A NIGERIAN nun who lives “a stone’s throw” from the priests and lay people who were murdered during Mass will tell the community affected by the vicious crime to put an end to retaliation and turn to prayer. Sr Anna Abba, the superior general of the Sisters of the Nativity, an order of African women serving the poor and marginalised ... Read More »

“YOUR car or your life?” was the ultimatum armed rebels had for Mabel Saah as they stormed through her neighbourhood in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia in West Africa. She had no choice; she handed over the keys and left her home with her six children – never to return. That was 27 years ago, and now the Annerley Ekibin ... Read More »

CHARITY founder and young mother Donna Power has kept her promise to feed and educate children in Malawi by raising $10,000 in her first major event. In 2011, Mrs Power founded Project Kindy, an Australian grassroots charity that pays for children to attend kindergarten in Malawi. The idea came about from a conversation with good friend Canossian Sister Melissa Dwyer ... Read More »

Overseas help: Caritas Australia chief executive officer Paul O’Callaghan visiting Kitui, Kenya, where he met communities and families impacted by drought. Photo: Caritas Australia. FAMINE in the Horn of Africa is shaping as the biggest humanitarian crisis since the Second World War, an Australian Catholic aid expert says. “It is unnerving when you see the scale of the disaster,” Caritas ... Read More »

KINDERGARTENERS in Malawi have been cheating death since a Brisbane mum made a personal commitment to feed them for the rest of her life. Donna Power has been sending donations to feed children in seven Malawi kindergarten centres run by the Canossian Daughters of Charity since 2011. The mother-of-one started a grassroots venture to support kindergarten children in the impoverished country after a ... Read More »

WHEN Sue Fyfe compiled a scrapbook to mark the arrival of her latest grandchild, she was acutely aware that many of the photographs she was including pointed to the potential for a bright future for little Lincoln. He was surrounded by loving parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles; able to access the best in modern health care; with the necessary resources available ... Read More »

GEMMA Sisia was a 22-year-old country girl when she left for Africa with plans of becoming a nun or a missionary. Gemma fell in love, and started a new mission – educating the poorest children in Tanzania. In 2002, and starting with three pupils, Gemma set up a school in Tanzania called The School of St Jude – named after ... Read More »