BETTY Graver may have been born in England, and she might live in Australia, but the 86 year old’s heart will always be with a group of orphans in India. For the past seven years, Ms Graver has been sending large donations to the Blessed Mother Teresa Home for Orphans in Adilabad eparchy, India, home to 75 orphaned children between ... Read More »
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Ethiopian adoptee returns to African nation to give $1000 to religious sisters that cared for her as a baby
RELIGIOUS sisters caring for abandoned children in Ethiopia received a special gift from a young woman who lived in the nuns’ orphanage for the first nine months of her life. Mehret Lumb was born in Ethiopia and spent the first nine months of her life at Kidane Mehret, an orphanage run by the Franciscan Sisters of the Heart of Jesus, ... Read More »
Ingham students join Missionaries of the Poor in the Philippines
INSTEAD of relaxing during the school holidays, a group of 13 students from Gilroy Santa Maria College, Ingham, and St Teresa’s College, Abergowrie, accompanied by four adults, travelled to Naga City in the Philippines to work alongside the Missionaries of the Poor among “the poorest of the poor”. Ingham District parish priest Fr Damian McGrath said “one of the major ... Read More »