Donations from across the country and gratitude from around the world have been flooding in for the tireless work being done by a Sydney religious sister supporting the seafarers visiting our shores, reports The Catholic Weekly.

Like a new flame this Good News springs up in the night: the night of a world already faced with epochal challenges and now oppressed by a pandemic severely testing our whole human family. In this night, the Church’s voice rings out: “Christ, my hope, has arisen!”, said Pope Francis in his Urbi et Orbi Easter blessing.

“I began creating the sculpture with the conviction that healing our broken and wounded Earth depends on us now, one with all vulnerable species, to ‘learn the way forward from the First Peoples of all our countries’,” writes Sr Kenise Neill RSJ.

Sr Frances Hayes PBVM was due to fly out to Chiang Rai in Thailand to start teaching English at the Jesuit-run Xavier Learning Centre for young people wishing to join the seminary and religious life. But then, she writes in Global Sisters Report, COVID-19 arrived and she now finds herself ‘staying put’ and praying for those affected by the impacts of the virus.

Five years ago, Sister Margaret Guy RSC received a phone call inviting her to be part of a new Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) drop-in hospitality centre in Western Sydney to support people seeking asylum, Link Magazine reports..