Ceasefire - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 13 Nov 2023 03:55:01 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Ceasefire - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Israel-Hamas war: Aotea Square protesters rally for New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz/2023/11/13/israel-hamas-war-aotea-square-protesters-rally-for-new-zealand/ Mon, 13 Nov 2023 04:54:49 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=166275 Hundreds of people have gathered in Auckland's Aotea Square this afternoon, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Today's rally comes after close to 300 protesters gathered yesterday at the Museum Reserve in Dunedin before marching on the Octagon, chanting and wielding placards and Palestinian and Tino Rangatiratanga flags. Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) spokesperson Rinad Read more

Israel-Hamas war: Aotea Square protesters rally for New Zealand... Read more]]> Hundreds of people have gathered in Auckland's Aotea Square this afternoon, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.

Today's rally comes after close to 300 protesters gathered yesterday at the Museum Reserve in Dunedin before marching on the Octagon, chanting and wielding placards and Palestinian and Tino Rangatiratanga flags.

Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) spokesperson Rinad Tamimi, who spent her childhood in Gaza, said yesterday she had seen the numbers attending the Dunedin rallies double each week. Read more

Israel-Hamas war: Aotea Square protesters rally for New Zealand]]> 166275 Sudan's Catholic leaders hopeful of lasting ceasefire https://cathnews.co.nz/2018/07/02/sudans-catholic-leaders-ceasefire/ Mon, 02 Jul 2018 07:55:03 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=108827 Sudan's Catholic leaders are hopeful the country's almost five-year civil war is at an end. A ceasefire has been declared by South Sudan officials and rebel leaders. While Bishop Barani Hiiboro, president of the Sudan and South Sudan Catholic Bishop's Conference, welcomed the ceasefire he says: "if it is to mean anything for the suffering Read more

Sudan's Catholic leaders hopeful of lasting ceasefire... Read more]]> Sudan's Catholic leaders are hopeful the country's almost five-year civil war is at an end.

A ceasefire has been declared by South Sudan officials and rebel leaders.

While Bishop Barani Hiiboro, president of the Sudan and South Sudan Catholic Bishop's Conference, welcomed the ceasefire he says:

"if it is to mean anything for the suffering people of South Sudan, then our leadership must face the task of rebuilding our broken pieces. Read more

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