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PERTH, WA: 25 — 31 July, 1985
Number 2439
LOCATION 26 John St, Perth, (off Fitzgerald St) POST ADDRESS PO Box 50, Perth Aberdeen St, WA, 6000
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Ships are still manned by people, says Fremantle chaplain, Father O'Shea and the visiting seamen still need hospitality. See Page 3. • Australia has the talent and should have the will to help A frica, says Australia's Relief Organisations. See Page 2. • What makes a saint? Are they specialpeople or are they ordinary people who become specialby the way they hi/e? Pathway of the Spirit examines this question. See pages 8 and 9. • Vatican tells Catholics to rethink their attitudes towards Jews. See Page 7. • Namibian raids condemned by Catholic observers. See page 6.
Compassion total recora Over $320,000 was contributed to the 1985 Project Compassion by the people in the Perth Archdiocese. This represented a 23.6 per cent increase on last year's total of $258,879. The contributions of 76 per cent of the parishes in the archdiocese were greater than last year. In addition, during the past 12 months $185,000 was handed in to the Perth Australian Catholic Relief Office for the African Drought Appeal. In the past six years the people of Perth archdiocese have contributed $1.3 million to Project Compassion as well as other contributions to emergency appeals. Perth's 1984 share of the national Project Compassion of $2.3 million W2S nearly 11 per cent. The 1985 Perth effort entailed the despatch to the parishes of 28,000 boxes, 18,500 sets of six enveloped, 18,000 publicity newspapers, 550 posters, 2500 Italian leaflets, 250 parish kits and a kit to every Catholic school. Foley Archbishop launched the appeal in Sr Marys Cathedral when representatives of 60 parishes were given materials to promote Project Compassion in their parish. "The generosity of the people of Perth makes
Most parishes register more contributions my task of organising this campaign so worthwhile," said Margaret Collopy, Diocesan Director of Australian Catholic Relief. "For more than a decade now, A.C.It's aidgiving has been underpinned by the concept of partnership.
El E "Rich and poor are partners in the process of human development, and the poor has as important a contribution to make to our development as we have to theirs. "Project Compassion has not merely become another appeal. A.C.R. would like it to be an integral part of the Lenten Season, with reflection, prayer and
fasting combining with almsgiving, not just during Lent but throughout the year. "In addition to the African Drought Appeal people are now showing their concern for the victims of the Bangladesh floods. "Ihave had tremendous support in my work from Parish Priests and Parish Representatives. They have helped not only in collecting money but created an increasing awareness among parishioners of the needs which exist both at home and in developing countries. The full list is on page 2. Australian Catholic Relief reported recently that Zimbabwe and Ethi-
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opia have been focal points for ACR over the past year. Zimbabwe has been one of the success stories of Africa in recent years. This year's harvest, despite a four-year drought, will more than meet domestic needs, and this is largely due to a massive increase in production from the country's peasant farmers, who have
been helped by government advice and assistance to diversify into drought-resistant crops. ACR, through the Church in Zimbabwe, has supported this emphasis on rural development by contributing to a scheme whereby finance, expertise, credit and other resources are made available to rural communities wishing to
improve their living standards. The story in Ethiopia, is very different. There, the drought has been more severe, and government policies less enlightened than in Zimbabwe. The result has been famine, widespread aggravated by civil wars on several fronts. ARC has joined in the
relief international efforts in Ethiopia_
Appeals to the Australian community raised almost $5 million. The lion's share of this went to Ethiopia, where it was used for relief operations around the country by the Ethiopian Catholic Secretariat. Further stories on African relief page 2.
Australia has long-term solution to Africa's needs Australia has many practical avenues to help Africa's long term solution ofits agriculturalproblems, says the council for Overseas Aid. African lands suffer. • Lou. rainfall, coupled in parts with high temperatures. • Soil erosion. • Low soilfertility (particularly lack of nitrogen and phos)horus). • Water shortage. Australia is uniquely
placed to help as large areas of Australia have the same problems, and are similar in latitude; Australia is the only developed country with extensive areas of semi-arid tropical land. A ustralia has existing expertise in crop andforage production in dry and semiarid arras, with the two
facets of conserving soil and moisture and integrating legumes into the cropping system to fix soil nitrogen; the techniques are regularly taught. Research into energy-saving farming systems for crop andforageproduction in the semi-arid tropics, conducted in northern Aus-
tralia for many _wars, is now being extended to Africa.
The techniques include "minimum till" ( leaving stubble or killed ureds as mulct; instead of removing them) to save labour, con-
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High cost on fire
The latest insurance estimate of the St Anthony's School fire damage stands at $300,000, following the conflagration that is believed to have been deliberately lit on Saturday morning. Repair work started immediately on the weekend and workers will go day and night and weekends to get the resto• ration finished in a promised 12 weeks, said a spokesman for Catholic Church Insurances. Three classrooms that were damaged by smoke were scrubbed down and repainted in preparation for the opening of school today. The roof over the administration area and the two gutted classrooms has been condemned and will have to be replaced. Only the walls appear On Sunday repair work got under way with dozens of smoke blackened desks having to be scrubbed and washed thoroughly for the to be intact and the interior will have to be completefy refitted. resumption of school
The gutted interior of one of the two new classrooms only opened at the beginning of this year and needing a complete new roof and complete internal finishing.
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