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Urges the United Nations’ High Commissioner to intervene in “distressing, shocking” incident
Above, children at the Perth-funded Thai orphanage, from which 50 boys and girls aged 10-14 were taken on 28 December. PHOTO: ONE HEART ASSOCIATION
ARCHBISHOP Barry Hickey has raised the profile and taken up the issue of the reported kidnapping of approximately 50 Karen children from a ThaiBurma border orphanage with the United Nations’ High Commissioner for Human Rights in Switzerland. Archbishop Hickey last week wrote to Madam Navanethem Pillay, the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights based in Geneva. He urged Madam Pillay to intervene in the matter with a view to finding the perpetrators and rescuing the children. His action signals he will not let the Please turn to Page 2
BY PETER ROSENGREN Editor
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hey’re called ‘apps’ and anyone under 25 years of age - or thereabouts - will know the meaning of the word straight away. ‘Apps’ is young-person talk for ‘applications,’ computer software programs that run, in this case, on Apple Computer’s iPhone, the mobile telephone that has blitzed competitors with the novelty of its approach to the business of communication. An iPhone is something like a small computer which also happens to be a mobile telephone. Among the young, they’re considered to be a must-have possession.
There’s an almost dizzying variety of applications available for a gadget like the iPhone - now Catholic programmers are seeing the possibilities for Christians in a communications-dominated world.
But what’s interesting about the iPhone for Catholics? It turns out a growing number of apps are being written specifically for Catholics, including at least four different translations of the entire Bible, daily Mass readings and the Order of the Mass (Novus Ordo or Tridentine, in English or Latin) and the entire Office of the Hours - among others. You can even ‘light a candle’ to your favourite saint. In 2008, Apple reportedly shipped 13.2 million iPhones around the world but by 2012 some are predicting annual sales will have hit 80 million. Whatever, they’re regarded as a versatile and useful product to have. This week, Catholic Youth Ministry’s tech-savvy Tom Gourlay begins a new series for The Record reviewing the apps that are of interest to Catholics. The iPieta is a killer app - Vista 4
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very year, The Record turns to parishes to help us show how Christians have walked towards Easter with Christ and celebrated their faith in his Resurrection. It’s a message and a witness our society needs badly to hear and see. This year we will be holding special workshops at The Record before Easter for Parish photographers and writers to show you how to get the best out of this chance to report the most important
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