At the recent CATHCA Conference Fr Charles Ryan gave a presentation on the ethical issues facing Catholic healthcare workers.  Here is an  outline of the talk he gave. >Download

New School Uniforms, Phalaborwa and Ofcalaco Parishes, Tzaneen Diocese.

News from Phalaborwa Parish: 71 households/families  were helped, and  132 children – 75 boys and  57 girls – received school uniforms.  Other families were helped in Ofcalaco parish. We identified the children by visiting the schools to see the condition…

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Bakhita, Tzaneen Diocese, gets a face-lift

The Bakhita Orphans and Vulnerable Children’s project next o St Brendan’s School in the Diocese of Tzaneen was able to do some needed repairs at the centre accommodating the children.

Sr Alison Munro presented input on sourcing funding, and funding sources, at the recent CATHCA regional conference held at Willow Park Conference centre near Johannesburg this past week.  The major donor funding that was available between roughly 2000 and 2010…

 Orphanaid, Caritas, Siphafaneni House, Swaziland

Siphofaneni, Our Lady of Sorrows, Manzini Diocese The xx family has 3 members, [a father and 3 children, 1 girl, 2 boys]. The father is HIV positive and needs to visit the local clinic for his medication almost  every two…

Fr Michael Czerny was the first keynote speaker at the theological conference hosted by St Joseph’s Theological Institute and the SACBC AIDS Office, marking thirty years since the discovery of HIV.  He outlined the Church’s response to AIDS globally. >>Download…

Sr Nokwanda Bam CPS, from Mariannhill,  presented a paper at the theological conference held at St Joseph’s Theological Institute at Cedara, and co-sponsored by the SACBC AIDS Office,  on the care nurses give to terminally ill patients. >>Download Here

Looking back over thirty years at the Church's response to AIDS

Sr Alison Munro was a key note speaker at a conference organised by St Joseph’s Theological Institute, Cedara, and the SACBC AIDS Office.  The conference examined the response of the Catholic Church to AIDS in Southern Africa over the thirty…

RIP: SEFORA VIKAKAZI, Ahanang AIDS Project, Sebokeng, Archdiocese of Johannesburg.

          The SACBC AIDS Office and the AIDS Office of the Archdiocese of Johannesburg were both represented at the Requiem Mass for the late Sefora Vilakazi, co-ordinator of Ahanang, the AIDS response of Emmanuel Parish, Sebokeng,…

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