An estimated 400 families have fled following assault by extremists. Forces of ISIS have attacked Christian Assyrian villages in north-eastern Syria, in the region of Khabour in the Hassake governorate.

Elderly residents will be flashing their pearly whites in a West Australian-first dental health trial taking place at MercyCare’s Wembley residential aged-care facility.

Moviegoers of a certain age will remember the movement to boycott grapes – an effort to draw attention to the plight of agricultural workers, and exert economic pressure on their employers, that lasted throughout the latter half of the 1960s.

Parishioners at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church Rockingham recently celebrated the feast of their patroness, Our Lady of Lourdes, on 15 February.

Catholic readers will be taken into the collection God, Faith & Identity from the Ashes and deeply into themselves, finding spiritual nourishment in the continuing faith of descendants of Jewish survivors of the Shoah and their determination to affirm their Jewishness and to dedicate their lives to helping others.

Each year, Project Compassion, which runs through the six weeks of Lent, brings hundreds of thousands of Australians together in solidarity with the world’s poor.

Eighty-five men who were foundation students at Marist Senior College Churchlands – now Newman College – when it opened its doors in 1965, were recently invited to take part in the college’s 50th Anniversary celebrations.

“Lifestyles of the Rich and Perverse” might be a more fitting title for the unusually explicit bedroom drama Fifty Shades of Grey (Universal).

In a homily given on Friday, 4 April 2014, Pope Francis referred to a persecuted man – ‘a true prophet’ – who had several of his works placed on the Index of Prohibited Books by his enemies.

His Holiness Pope Francis has appointed as Apostolic Nuncio to Australia, His Excellency Most Reverend Adolfo Tito Yllana, Titular Archbishop of Montecorvino and, until now, Apostolic Nuncio to the Democratic Republic of Congo.