Articles by Ashleigh Banks

Everyone belongs at Harmony Day IMAGE Your Diocese

Everyone belongs at Harmony Day

March 20, 2018

Harmony Day is a day to celebrate Australian multiculturalism in general and on the successful integration of migrants into our society in particular.

Easter Service Times IMAGE Your Diocese

Easter Service Times

March 16, 2018

With Easter just around the corner, here is this year's Easter Service Times for your local church in the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle.

 

The legacy of Stephen Hawking IMAGE Church

The legacy of Stephen Hawking

March 16, 2018

Stephen Hawking, the internationally-renowned physicist and long-time member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, passed away at the age of 76 on 14 March, 2018

Caritas responds to PNG earthquake IMAGE Church

Caritas responds to PNG earthquake

March 14, 2018

Caritas Australia, the Catholic Church’s international aid and development agency, with its partners on the ground, is currently supporting affected communities in Papua New Guinea’s central highlands, following the 7.5 magnitude earthquake which struck on 8 March.

Be a good egg this Easter and make your chocolate slavery-free IMAGE Church

Be a good egg this Easter and make your chocolate slavery-free

March 14, 2018

Please buy and sell only slavery-free chocolate this Easter. That’s the message from ACRATH (Australian Catholic Religious Against Trafficking in Humans) to everyone intending to buy chocolate, or run chocolate fundraising during Lent.

Inside the Vatican’s first-ever, 36-hour hackathon IMAGE Church

Inside the Vatican’s first-ever, 36-hour hackathon

March 13, 2018

The pace of things may have seemed a little different at the Vatican over the weekend as they hosted their first-ever 36-hour hackathon.