TWENTY-year-old Matt Foxon remembers well what it was like to be searching for answers and “hungry for purpose” in those awkward teenage years. And now, having been away on the journey of a lifetime, he’s throwing himself into helping young people in his own backyard find their way through those years. Matt’s taken on the role of youth ministry co-ordinator ... Read More »
“GOD, please don’t let me die.” Private Dillon Beatson had been an atheist up until the moment the helicopter he was riding in crashed during a training exercise near Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates in September 2013. “In that crash, I called out for God; I asked him, ‘God, please don’t let me die’, and that just sort ... Read More »
DANIELLE Mourits adjusts the blue surgical face mask over her mouth and nose as she heads to work the dispensary booth at the Koche community hospital. Technically she’s supposed to wear the mask once, but this one has seen daylight for one, maybe two weeks. It’s been the 23 year old’s stark reality for seven months as a volunteer missionary ... Read More »
A TEENAGE climate activist from Fiji spoke with a voice that was eloquent and passionate, in a way that could not be ignored. AnnMary Raduva, a 16-year-old Year 11 student at St Joseph’s Secondary School in Suva, gave an impassioned plea for urgent action on climate change and ecological crises in Oceania. She was sitting with Archbishop Peter Loy Chong ... Read More »
YOUNG Catholics from the Kingston-Marsden parish are walking on air after raising more than $7000 for some of India’s most vulnerable citizens by trekking through the Logan suburbs. Members of the Maxmilian Kolbe parish youth group set a challenge to raise money for two organisations run by Catholic religious congregations in India by each walking 50km over 21 days. The ... Read More »
TEENAGE Brisbane Christian Oscar Delaney is among a group of young people taking on billionaire businessman Clive Palmer in court over a new coal mine in Queensland. Mr Delaney, 18, is part of a group of 25 young Queenslanders called Youth Verdict which is taking legal action against the project planned for the state’s Galilee Basin by Mr Palmer’s company ... Read More »
A young Brisbane Catholic working as a paramedic on the streets of London has described the grim, dangerous task of collecting sick and dying patients stricken by the coronavirus. “People are very scared and anxious… so they call 999,” 34-year-old David Armour recounted, clearly affected by what he sees during a typical paramedic shift. The Brisbane paramedic and his wife ... Read More »
DARRA Jindalee parishioner Felicia Nasalio, 23, had four simple reasons for her pilgrim journey to Perth for the Australian Catholic Youth Festival this week. She wanted to connect with young people, deepen her faith, deepen her love for Jesus and ignite the spark she felt inside. She said she had been feeling lost lately, and “I feel like the Holy ... Read More »
YOUNG Australian Catholics marched in their thousands to the steps of Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre last weekend – a pilgrim army united by faith and age, and urged by their bishops to “go and rebuild” the Church. “Help stop the Church – my Church – from falling into ruin,” Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe told the 5500 young Catholics amassed ... Read More »
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