Caritas Australia is urging Australians to support communities devastated by catastrophic flooding in Nepal as local partner Caritas Nepal expands its emergency response to reach families who have lost homes, livelihoods and loved ones. As the scale of the disaster continues to emerge, hundreds of lives have been lost, thousands of people are still missing or unaccounted for, and there is w...

Catholic Mission is inviting schools across Australia to kick goals for good and compete to create the next official sockball following the launch of Socktober 2026. The national challenge coincides with the centenary of World Mission Sunday. As part of the competition, schools, students and youth groups are invited to design and build a new sockball using recycled materials. Image: Cath...

The Board of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) Australia and New Zealand has announced the resignation of National Director, Bernard Toutounji. Mr Toutounji leaves the ACN after more than eight-and-a-half years of dedicated service in support of the suffering Church around the world. In a statement, the ACN expressed its sincere gratitude to Mr Toutounji for his leadership, commitment and ...

Outstanding support for the Archbishop’s 2025 LifeLink Day Initiative was recognised recently with the Archbishop’s 2025 Spirit Award presented to John XXIII College in Mount Claremont (secondary schools award) and Mercy College in Koondoola (primary schools award). LifeLink Chair and Perth Auxiliary Bishop Don Sproxton, said, while the Award structure formally recognises a secondary and pr...

Among the volunteers were MercyCare staff, their families, local residents, and current clients from refugee and asylum-seeker backgrounds.

A new and unique fundraising event from St Vincent De Paul Society WA aims to be a great motivation for supporters to ensure participants have the ultimate bragging rights.

On Friday 26 July, 36 Mercedes students from all year groups volunteered to take part in the Ponytail Project, stepping up to cut 20 centimetres or more of their hair for donation, as well as raising funds from friends and family for cancer research and support services for families affected by cancer.

Caritas Australia CEO Kirsty Robertson has said that the famine in Ethopia, Kenya and Somalia are some of the worst in this lifetime.

The international humanitarian organisation is taking its Make Hunger History campaign to parishes and schools across Australia to raise funds for its Africa Food Crisis Appeal.