Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand has produced several videos showing organisations that are living Catholic social teaching in their work. These are among the resources Caritas has created for the annual Social Justice Week, which runs from September 14-20 this year. The campaign focuses on Catholic social teaching and the Church’s tradition of justice. One of Read more
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Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand gives $20,000 to help Gaza
Tuesday, July 29th, 2014Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand has contributed an initial $20,000 to support a humanitarian response to the emergency in Gaza. Caritas Jerusalem is providing medical assistance, food and other necessities to the thousands of vulnerable people affected by the escalating conflict. More than 775 people have been killed during Israeli attacks, with more than 100,000 Palestinians Read more
Kumara and giant yams sustaining life in Tonga
Friday, July 25th, 2014
Funaki Vehekite grows food crops such as kape, taro, yam, cassava and squash at his farm in Tonga. It allows him to support his family and keep his five children in school. He is the secretary of a farming collective called the St Anthony of Padua group The collective is part of Caritas Tonga’s sustainable Read more
Mufti Mania day to help cyclone damaged school in Tonga
Friday, June 20th, 2014
The New Zealand Catholic Primary Principals Association in partnership with Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand are encouraging Catholic primary schools to get involved in this year’s Mufti Mania Day, Friday 4 July, by wearing mufti to school in exchange for a gold coin donation. When Cyclone Ian hit Tonga in January 2014, the roof of St Read more
Caritas’ SingOut4Justice competition winners announced
Tuesday, May 27th, 2014Over 30 young song writers from around New Zealand composed lyrics and performed songs on ways to help improve the lives of people struggling with poverty, oppression, injustice or hopelessness, for Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand’s SingOut4Justice competition. The annual competition invited students from all colleges and high schools across the country, to consider ways a Read more
One day of difference for a lifetime of change
Friday, April 11th, 2014
I arrived at Challenge 2000 in Johnsonville, a night with friends in a cosy cardboard box beneath a starlit sky was too good to pass by. The Wellington wind had fled; stillness paired with the embers crackling, huddled closer, marshmallows devoured in flame as stories swept us elsewhere and nothing mattered anymore save each other, Read more
6000 youth sign up to Caritas Challenge
Friday, April 4th, 2014
Over 6,000 youth will be participating in Caritas Challenge events in New Zealand this week end. The Caritas Challenge is an annual 24-hour event for schools and youth groups during Lent At Garin College in Nelson, for example, over 170 students are spending Saturday night in cardboard boxes on the school’s tennis courts and going Read more
World Cup injustice
Tuesday, April 1st, 2014
Where once an event like the Olympics or the World Cup may have been seen as a triumph of corporate and athletic enterprise, today’s world counts the cost of games much more carefully. Previous events have left countries with decaying venues and huge bills that take years to pay off. Local communities are increasingly unhappy Read more
Young leaders get ready for the Caritas Challenge
Friday, March 21st, 2014
Over 400 sixteen to eighteen year olds recently took part in the annual Caritas: Justice Leadership Days across every diocese in New Zealand. The young people, identified by their colleges and peers as leaders, came together to find out more about Caritas and the upcoming Caritas Challenge, 4-6 April. The days focused on Caritas’s work Read more
Caritas worker laments dire plight of Syrian refugees
Tuesday, March 18th, 2014
A New Zealand aid worker says the situation in overflowing Syrian refugee camps remains hopeless as the country marks three years of civil war. The brutal Syrian conflict has left an estimated 146,000 people dead, half of them reportedly civilians, and caused millions to flee. Aid experts say up to 4 million people could be Read more