"Be indefatigable in your purpose and with undaunted spirit resist iniquity and try to conquer evil with good, having before your eyes the reward of those who combat for Christ." -BISHOP MATTHEW GIBNEY 1874
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Western Australia's award-winning Catholic newspaper since 1874 - Wednesday June 17 2009
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A RECORD SPECIAL REPORT
LOVE
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eet Chen, aged 5. Sadly, this beautiful little Chinese girl is HIV-positive. AIDS has swept across China leaving victims like Chen abandoned, cast out of society and ostracised. In March, The Record's Mark Reidy and Robert Hiini returned to China in the footsteps of Jamie O'Brien and Derek Boylen to investigate the remarkable work caring for lepers and victims of HIV-AIDS begun by pioneering Jesuit Fr Luis Ruiz SJ and his helpers. They expected to find people embittered by suffering. To their surprise, they found a people of hope, thanks to the work of the legendary Jesuit and 0 his Chinese co-workers.
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31°' * tailb.ow, The Record returns to China - and to one of the most Pages 5-10 inspiring stories we have ever covered. Photo: Robert Hiini
INSIDE: The happy faces below tell the story of what difference some basic love and humanity can make Vista 1 in the lives of those who have been abandoned by everyone else.