MercyCare is celebrating Children’s Week for a special reason later this month, having recently launched a new fund to support children in care.

When then 11-year-old Amy McCabe first encountered Sisters from the Missionary of God’s Love (MGL) community in 2008, she recalls feeling drawn not only by their jovial and loving nature, but also to their mission to youth, people living in poverty and those on the fringes of society.

Recent discoveries by academics and archaeology students from The University of Notre Dame Australia’s School of Arts & Sciences, Fremantle, are providing a glimpse into WA’s colonial past and the first settlers’ stories of hope and survival.

Three seminarians took a step closer to ordination recently following the visit of Geraldton Bishop Justin Bianchini to St Charles’ Seminary to install them as lectors.

The St Charles’ Seminary community last month took part in a multi-faith candlelit vigil on the eve of the UN International Day of Peace.

The Emmanuel Centre has this year celebrated Mental Health Week with a day of Reflection and Mass on Saturday, 10 October at St Francis Xavier Church in Windsor St, East Perth.

The musical talent of Welsh composer Karl Jenkins took on a new theme in memory of refugees and asylum seekers who have lost their lives in the search for freedom as part of a concert at St Mary’s Cathedral last Sunday, 11 October.

A new $41,000 education resource package aligned with the Australian Curriculum was launched in Broome last week, enabling schools throughout the country increased access to one of the best collections on the social history of the Kimberley.

St Elizabeth’s Catholic Primary School in Hocking has last month celebrated its official opening, with students performing an impressive repertoire of songs for guests.

Students, family, staff and special guests of the newly opened St Francis’ School Maddington have been celebrating its success since classes began in March this year.