More than 120 leaders from around Australia, New Zealand, West Papua, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific region gathered in Perth, Western Australia, at the end of June to explore ways of being better neighbours.
Be encouraged and inspired by these reports from the Assembly ...
(click on any of the live headings below to take you into the Assembly pages)
WELCOME by CRA President, Mark Raper SJ
issued Tuesday, June 26: the opening of the Assembly
issued Friday, June 29: an Assembly response to the Northern Territory Aboriginal children crisis
issued Wednesday, July 4: the main report on the Assembly
it includes Taking ecological responsibility, Offer of associate membership, Short courses in Canon Law
issued Wednesday, July 4: CRA formally accepts the challenge to work against the trafficking of women, children and men.
issued Wednesday, July 4: announces the launch of this website and the accompanying e-journal, pathways
REPORTS
"We, 850 leaders representing nearly 800,000 members of Catholic Religious Institutes throughout the world, have refelcted together ..."
Sr Katrina Brill RSJ addresses "The Laity Strand" ... See I am doing a new thing (Isaiah 43, 19)
Sr Edna Mary MacDonald FMA reports on the Asia/Oceania Meeting of Religious
Sr Pauline Coll SGS - Chair of ACRATH - reports that following the Assembly 2006 public action on the issue of Trafficking in Humans, awareness of the issue has continued to grow among many Religious, their associates and partners in ministry as networking extends through Australia and internationally...
PREVIEW ARTICLES ...
Jesuit Fr Mark Raper's report to Australian Religious Leaders on the Annual General Meeting of the Federation of Religious of Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands, Port Moresby (from February 23 to March 2, this year) opens a fascinating door for Catholic Religious Australia's own National Assembly which will gather around the theme: Being Neighbours in the Pacific ...
A May 2007 survey of Australian Religious Orders working in the Pacific region and East Timor shows that the focus is on education, health, pastoral work, welfare, and religious/theological formation. Twenty congregations responded to the request for information...
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