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EVA1..tiAIT N A Tamil tea plantation worker in
Sri Lanka fetches water for her family. Australian Catholic relief has provided support for activities to help the Tamil people. The support is aimed at helping the racially distinct Tamil people integrate more closely with the Sinhalese population.
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The Tamils brought from India by the British last century are now denied Sri Lankan and Indian citizenship, and regarded with suspicion.
Good news for Savers.
Overseas aid programmes worth $ 6 million had been reduced by $500,000 because of devaluation, a ccording to Catholic relief organisers. The devaluation announced March 8 represented a further significant cut in Australia's overseas aid, they said. In a letter to the Prime Minister, Mr Hawke, the national director of Australian Catholic Relief. Mr Michael Whiteley and t he executive secretary of the Australian Council of Churches' Division of devaluation may be of World Christian Action. benefit to Australia. Mr Ron O'Grady, called "However, if the recipon the new Australian ients of Australian aid in • government to ensure Third World countries are action would be taken to now to received less compensate for the reduc- because of this action, it tion in the real value of can accurately be said poor A ustralia's aid pro- people in countries much less well-off than Australia gramme. The letter said: "We are being asked to pay for accept that from an eco- the maintenance of our nomic point of view, the standard of living. "This would be unacceptable to any fair minded Australian.
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Pope talks of vocation for priests
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VATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope John Paul II has called on priests to make the 1983 Holy Year "a year of renewal in the priestly vocation." He has reminded them of their special role as "the teachers of God's truth about forgiveness and remission" of sins. In his annual letter to the world's clergy for Holy Thursday, the pope spoke
about the significance of the Holy Year of redemption. "The jubilee year is understood by the Church as a time for spiritual renewal for everyoae," Pope John
Paul said. "If we must be witnesses of this renewal for others, for our brothers and sisters in the Christian vocation, then we must be witnesses to it,
and spokesmen for it, to ourselves: the Holy Year of the redemption as a year of renewal in the priestly vocation." "During the jubilee year, may you succeed in being a special way the teachers of God's truth about forgiveness and remission, as this truth is constantly pra claimed by the Church," he wrote.
Gradual "Because of the gradual devaluation of the Australian dollar in the past 12 months, the value of our aid programmes. in terms of the goods and services provided to recipients. has been reduced by at least 20(7r.• Continued page 3