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As Catholics prepare to celebrate Migrant and Refugee Sunday on September 26, Francisco and Rosalinda Lacar speak about their decision to leave the Philippines and migrate to Australia with their five children in 1987.
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With significant wedding anniversaries being recognised in parishes in September, one couple whose 65 years of marriage have been firmly grounded in their local parish is Kathleen and Jude Smith.
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A steady stream of refugees and asylum seekers is coming through the doors of the relocated Vinnies Migrant and Refugee Service at Kilburn since it opened last month.
Francesca Cimmino has been going to Mass at St Joseph’s, Kingswood, every Sunday for 63 years, so it’s not surprising she found it difficult when churches closed a few weeks before Easter, the most sacred time of the year for Christians.
Family is everything to Enrica Bertossa who was separated from her own parents and siblings as an eight-year-old peasant girl in Istria. JENNY BRINKWORTH reports.
A keen golfer and snow skier, Fr Leon Czechowicz was an active 60 year old leading a busy life as parish priest of Elizabeth when he was diagnosed with breast cancer.
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