STEPHEN Kamal has a dream – to deliver one million books to children in a war-torn region of Africa where he grew up. Last week, with the help of many Catholic schools across Brisbane, Mr Kamal oversaw a shipment of 30,000 books – stage one of his ambitious plan to help educate young people in his Nuba Mountain homeland. “Our ... Read More »
FR Stephen Kumyangi describes South Sudan as “a little hell on earth”. It’s hard for him to describe his own country that way, but with kidnappings, beatings, rape and murder commonplace under a repressive regime, he knows the dire description fits. “Every South Sudanese living here or in America or the UK are depressed about the situation – there looks ... Read More »
BRISBANE Catholic taxi driver Aguek Nyok has thought a lot about friends, family and faith in the 10 months since he kicked in the door of a burning bus to save the lives of 11 people trapped inside. At the bus stop in Moorooka – the location of his heroic action – he reflected on the intensity of the fire ... Read More »
TAXI driver and Catholic father-of-four Aguek Nyok is still coming to grips with being publicly hailed a hero for helping save 11 people caught in a bus fire in Brisbane’s south on October 28. Mr Nyok, who fled from the horrors of war-torn Sudan more than a decade ago as a refugee, was the only person to run towards the ... Read More »
AMERICA’S leading public health institute released a report last year detailing the most common times babies were born. According to the report, released by the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention’s Centre for Health Statistics, a majority of United States babies born in 2013 arrived in the new world between 8am and lunchtime. Were those babies born in Sudan’s western ... Read More »
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