Tag: War

Sydneysiders marked Anzac Day with style and reverence, remembering both those who fought and died for our country as well as those currently in the armed forces.

Today’s Russian Orthodox leadership is a “theological, moral, and pastoral train wreck” that helps to define Russia’s ongoing assault on Ukraine, writes George Weigel.

Melkite Greek Catholic priest Fr George Banna is among those who was forced to leave his home in Sudan due to a catastrophic civil war between the Sudanese Armed Forces and prominent militia group Rapid Support Forces. Local supporters are trying to help his former parishioners and a group of nuns who also fled the violence.

In Sydney’s west, Lebanese Independence Day was marked on 22 November with a ‘journey of peace’ walk from Our Lady of Lebanon Co-Cathedral in Harris Park to St Raymond’s Maronite Catholic parish in Auburn where Mass was offered for Lebanon and the Holy Land.

At the end of the general audience, Pope Francis lamented a recent mass murder. He did not cite the location, although all indications are that it could be Burkina Faso, where violence is rampant and the country is out of control.

Maronite Bishop Antoine-Charbel Tarabay has called on all faithful to pray for peace, as Israel began a “targeted ground operation” in southern Lebanon on 1 October, following airstrikes that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and other senior commanders in a Beirut bunker on 27 September.

This year’s Social Justice Statement, "Truth and Peace: A Gospel Word in a Violent World," comes at a time when belief, truth and goodness are coming apart, and ideologies and conspiracies rush in to fill the void. Truth claims have taken on a new gravity in our time, writes Associate Professor Joel Hodge.

In a statement endorsed by the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference at its plenary meeting in Sydney yesterday, the bishops said the “violence in the Holy Land has shaken many people around the world. We too, have been shaken.”

Ukrainian and Palestinian Christians anxious about loved ones living in active war zones are praying for mercy, peace and the joy of the resurrection this Easter

Melkite youth in Sydney joined a ‘walk for peace’ on 2 March, part of a larger initiative of the Melkite Eparchy and the Melkite Charitable Foundation to raise funds to aid war-affected Christian communities this Lent.

The world narrowly escaped nuclear destruction during the Cold War through luck and divine intervention. Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen again, writes Dr Michael Walker

The influx of fleeing Sudanese Syrian Christians into Egypt has begun to grow as military forces continue to wage war in the Sudan capitol of Khartoum, with local advocates attempting to evacuate their countrymen to Australia.