REFUGEE ADVOCATES CALL FOR DETAILS ON BOAT BELIEVED TO BE CARRYING ASYLUM SEEKERS OFF WA COAST
21st July, 2015 Refugee advocates have called on the Australian Government to release details of a boat believed to be carrying Vietnamese asylum seekers which has been spotted off the north-west coast of Western Australia. The boat was reportedly spotted by the crew of an oil tanker in the early hours of Monday morning. Police […]
IRAQI PRIEST FREED IN SYRIA BUT PERSECUTION CONTINUES
21st July, 2015 An Iraqi Franciscan priest abducted by Islamic militants in northwest Syria has been released, but Christian leaders cautioned that persecution of minority groups continues in the war-torn region. Dhiya Aziz was captured on 4th July in the the town of Yacoubieh in Syria’s Idlib province, according to Franciscan missionaries familiar with the […]
SAINTS OF PAST AGES: JAN HUS
This month marks 600 years since the martyrdom of Czech church reformer Jan Hus. DAVID ADAMS takes a look at his life…