28 Mar 2019
Drop In Centres = ‘family’ for orphaned and vulnerable children The Valley of a Thousand Hills is home to a huge poor rural community. It’s an area where the Church’s religious and lay volunteers see the welfare of children as vitally important. This is...
28 Feb 2019
Napier Centre for Healing update Although renovations to the former Catholic boarding school at Ekukhanyeni – which will house the new Napier Centre for Healing – were completed successfully last year, raising sufficient money to cover running costs has been holding...
28 Feb 2019
Archbishop Hurley honoured Every year in February, there is a special memorial ‘Hurley Weekend’ at Emmanuel Cathedral in Durban, in honour of former Archbishop Denis Hurley who died in February 2004. This year, the preachers at the special Hurley Masses...
8 Jan 2019
Thank you for your beautiful generosity Your missionary spirit is part of the Church in Africa every year, but here’s a little reminder of the special instances where your kindness was at work during the past year of 2018. You gave so that the crumbling little church...
8 Jan 2019
Enough blankets to also help the people of a sister Diocese A letter of appreciation for you Mariannhill Diocese has 45 parishes, most of them in rural areas where the majority of people are not working. Priests who are serving these communities are able to distribute...
8 Jan 2019
Quick news Your past gifts to the Kwa Thintwa School for the Deaf at Inchanga Mission have allowed the children to go forward helped by technology. Their progress was highlighted at a recent choir concert for schools, where their singing was a major highlight....
8 Jan 2019
A special ‘thank you’ If you have promised a gift to the Archdiocese of Durban in your Will – thank you for your vision for the future. For those friends of the Zulu Missions whose gifts in their Will have been received – an ‘in memoriam’ thank you. For...
8 Jan 2019
Prayer for an unborn child Humble Mary of Nazareth, You were chosen by God to bear within you our world’s greatest gift. I come to you now, on behalf of (name/s) who prays for the health and safety of the child that God has graced her to conceive. I ask for your...
8 Jan 2019
The Napier Centre 4 Healing is ready to welcome patients Whilst those homeless people addicted to alcohol or drugs who want to turn their lives around can attend the eight week detoxification programme run by the local municipality, it isn’t enough. Cardinal Wilfrid...
8 Jan 2019
Not just any store – one that also dispenses dignity The Denis Hurley Centre, adjacent to the Emmanuel Cathedral in Durban is our ‘city mission’. This is the place which brings gifts of compassion to the poorest of the city’s poor – people living on the streets....
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