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Vigil highlights issue of human rights abuses
CANDLES were lit in a vigil in the grounds of Brisbane's St Stephen's Cathedral to honour five West Papuans believed killed in a recent military attack on crowds gathered for the Third Papuan People's Congress. (11/12/2011)
Driven by faith
"THERE were tears and happiness, then some more happiness then more tears." (04/12/2011)
$60,000 raised on Ray's odyssey
ASBESTOSIS battler Ray Colbert received the last rites in January - yet he's just piloted a wheelchair from Toowoomba to Brisbane's St Stephen's Cathedral to raise funds for research into the disease. (04/12/2011)
Call to fight same-sex marriage push
THE bill introduced to Queensland Parliament during the week on same-sex unions has been described as "a softener" on Australian Labor Party delegates opposed to same-sex marriage, in the lead-up to the party's national conference. (04/12/2011)
Helping hand
A BARDON family is thanking God and the generous people of the inner-Brisbane Jubilee parish for the Christmas gift of a lifetime - a $40,000 deposit on a new house. (27/11/2011)
Choirs to experience Anzac Cove dawn
CHOIRS from St Joseph's College and All Hallows' School in Brisbane will combine to lead the singing at Anzac Day commemorations in Gallipoli, Turkey, from 2012. (27/11/2011)
Year of Grace a journey of prayer
AUSTRALIAN Catholic Bishops Conference president Archbishop Philip Wilson has written a pastoral letter to the Catholics of Australia, calling them to join the bishops in embracing a Year of Grace. (27/11/2011)
End of an era
POPE Benedict XVI has announced the retirement of Archbishop John Bathersby, as Archbishop of Brisbane, and the appointment of Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett of Lismore as apostolic administrator of the diocese. (20/11/2011)
Apostolic administrator no stranger to Brisbane
BRISBANE archdiocese's interim leader Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett, despite being Victorian-born, once an Anglican priest and now Bishop of Lismore, is certainly "no stranger in town". (20/11/2011)
Catholics, Anglicans unite for prayer
CATHOLICS and Anglicans gathered at St John's Cathedral, Brisbane, on November 10 for the annual service of Prayer for Reconciliation for the Brisbane and Toowoomba dioceses of the two Churches. (20/11/2011)
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