Catholic Mission - Annual Report 2010

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2010 Annual Report

National Director’s Report Catholic Mission - in every Catholic Diocese around the world Catholic Mission in Africa Catholic Mission in Asia Catholic Mission in Oceania Catholic Mission in the Americas Education Report Fundraising Report Finance Report

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Catholic Mission cares for more people in more countries than ever before, through your support for the selfless work of heroic missionaries around the world.

What is Mission?

Today the question is often asked, “What is Mission and Evangelisation?” Catholic Mission answers by explaining Mission within an understanding of Church as a Community of Disciples on Mission.

Community is modelled on the Church in Jerusalem described in Acts 2:42 which was a real community where people cared for each other, grew in their faith through teaching and prayer, and reached out to those in need. Discipleship, often described as conversion, spiritual journey or a call to holiness, describes the intentional journey of faith undertaken by every person who wants to be a genuine follower of Christ.

Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are warned that this document may contain images of deceased people

Catholic Mission internationally is known as the Pontifical Mission Societies or Missio. We are specifically commissioned by the Pope to promote a universal spirit of Mission, and to provide both spiritual and financial support to young and growing Churches around the world.

Catholic Mission sees Mission as the outreaching arm of evangelisation. Mission comes from the Latin word “to send out”. Mission has three essential elements: 1) sharing faith, 2) caring for people in need, and 3) acting for justice and creation.

All three elements must be present for there to be a credible witness of our faith.

So the work of Catholic Mission is to form people in Australia for mission here and overseas and to fund the genuine missionary work of the Church. We fund parishes, convents, lay catechists, the training of priests, religious and lay people. We support many heroic missionaries carrying on the work of Jesus in providing for the spiritual and practical needs of people.

We funded, for example, 443 projects for children, providing sacramental preparation, catechesis, health clinics, education, feeding programs and more. Despite all the practical help given, the gift of faith is the greatest gift we can hope to impart.

2010 was a strong fundraising year for Catholic Mission. Income was up $3.9 million to $16.7 million. This reflected an increase in bequests and also in donations, with an increase in monthly giving and major gifts. Other income from provision of mission formation to schools, parishes and individuals has grown from $0 to more than $500,000 in two years: allowing programs to keep expanding without impacting on our overseas donations.

Our formation programs provided faith sharing, social justice and practical care to hundreds of thousands of school students.

Participation in our adult formation programs tripled in 2010 and 110 Australians experienced life-changing immersions in remote Australia, Timor-Leste, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines and Cambodia.

A particular achievement in 2010 was our hosting a fundraising conference in Rome for the major Catholic Mission donor countries with English-speaking staff. Organised by Fundraising Manager Sharyn Tidswell, this was the first Catholic Mission conference ever held on mission fundraising and the first skills conference ever hosted by an individual country. It was lavishly praised by the Secretary-Generals in Rome as a significant and effective innovation.

Cover artwork: The Creation of Adam, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Sistine Chapel, Vatican City

The Church gives Catholic Mission priority over all mission and development agencies worldwide because its solidarity fund provides the basic funding for almost every diocese in Africa, Asia and the Pacific and for the poorest areas of South America and Eastern Europe. In 2010 Catholic Mission Australia also provided $1.8 million for the Church’s work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia.

Catholic Mission Australia supported 131 dioceses in 37 countries, assisting over two million Catholics in their spiritual growth and outreach to others. This included the training of 9,203 catechists in their ongoing support, and the building, upkeep and maintenance of 79 churches, presbyteries and pastoral centres, and 15 religious convents. We subsidised the training of 3,983 seminarians in 34 seminaries and subsidised 17 Catholic radio and television broadcasters. In 2010 Catholic Mission directly funded care for the spiritual and practical needs of an amazing 507,414 children.

The unexpected death of Bishop Joe Grech in December was a great personal sadness and a loss to Catholic Mission. Bishop Joe was a missionary who shared his faith and values in caring and in working for justice, particularly for refugees. As Bishops’ delegate to Catholic Mission his contribution was invaluable, helping us to explain our innovations to his fellow bishops and winning their support. He will be sadly missed.

Finally I extend my thanks to all the faithful in Australia: Bishops, priests and people for their wonderful and generous support for the worldwide Church through Catholic Mission. I would also thank our colleagues in Rome and throughout 160 countries for their support and collaboration. Despite challenges for the Church, our work and the spread of the Gospel in word and deed continues to grow strongly. We hope and pray that growth will continue in 2011 and beyond.

Yours in Christ,

Martin Teulan BA Dip Ed.,MA Th. St. National Director

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Our regular giving programs start from $15 per month. We have programs for our work with Church Leaders, Communities and Children. The administration cost for the regular giving programs are much lower than for one-off donations, which means more money goes directly to the projects.

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Zimbabwe The Sanctity of Life “Violent”, “corrupt” and “chaotic” are all adjectives that have been applied to Zimbabwe. Forced land resumptions have internally displaced millions. Others have fled as refugees. Once known as Africa’s ‘bread basket’, Zimbabwe now suffers from chronic food shortages. Runaway inflation makes the necessities of life – food, clothing, housing and medicines – even harder to obtain.

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In this difficult environment Catholic Mission reaches to the marginalised people.

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Catholic Mission in Africa 2010 saw West Africa’s persistent drought threaten the lives of millions. In Kenya, the people approved a new constitution. When South Africa hosted the World Cup the global village was introduced to a noisemaker called the vuvuzela. In the Gulf of Aden pirates made headlines kidnapping super tankers. On the ground the ‘Good News’ of Christ’s missionaries was rarely reported, except in the most tragic circumstances. In December, in the Congo, a small news item described the assassination of Father Christian Bakulene, a pastoral worker in Mapere village. Along with other travellers returning to the village, Fr Christian was stopped by uniformed men at a roadblock. “Who among you is the pastor?” they demanded. Fr Christian stepped forward: “I am.” They trained their guns on the priest…

Ethiopia ”He is risen!”

The great missionary Saint Paul would recognise in the Catholic community of Gambella in northern Ethiopia a model of those early Christian communities he founded wherever he travelled.

The Catholic community in Gambella is just 10 years old, a mere fledgling. Like those first communities, it is a beacon for bringing the light of Christ into the world.

Gambella Prefecture is an emerging regional state lacking in social services and infrastructure. The weather is harsh with long droughts and the soil is poor to marginal. Poverty, hunger and inter-ethnic conflicts persist. The rural population is 1.3 million of which there are 6,800 Catholics.

The community outreaches to people of diverse languages, customs and beliefs. “Evangelisation and social mission go hand in hand,” writes Catholic layman Daniel Kebede. “Schools and kindergartens, health centres, parish outstations have followed the building of our church. We’ve also dug wells in the midst of the worst drought in living memory.”

Catholic Mission is currently supporting the building of a Pastoral and Culture Centre consisting of classrooms, a cultural centre, dining hall, kitchen and accommodation for 100 guests. When finished, the complex will be the centrepiece of the community and a gathering place for people from distant places.

“It will allow us to accommodate and train catechists from different ethnic backgrounds together under one roof and allow them to stay for extended periods,” writes Daniel. The centre will also offer an “enabling environment” for workshops, training and education.

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Zambia Sisters in Faith Catholic Mission supports the ministry of Sister Marie Bourke, a Franciscan Missionary of the Divine Motherhood, who works in the remote Kasanka region of Zambia helping communities afflicted by HIV/AIDS. Zambia has one of the highest infection rates of HIV/AIDS in southern Africa. Around 16 per cent of the population is infected.

In Kasanka one in five people are HIV positive. Many children are orphaned. Older children are left to run their households.

Sr Marie, who grew up in Nathalia, Victoria, works tirelessly to provide medical and pastoral support to carers and people living with HIV/AIDS. Together with Nigerian sisters, Sr Rogita Bonaventure and Sr Anna Gochin, and lay worker, Juliette Mumba Matel, the little team are the human face of medical care to a great many.

In partnership with the government health department, the sisters work across 90 villages in a 70 kilometre radius inside the Kasanka region. Their ministry offers palliative care for HIV positive people and for the families affected by HIV. “We are keeping people alive who would otherwise be dead,” says Sr Marie. “We are witnesses to Jesus that these people matter enormously to him.”

The use of antiretroviral (ARV) medication, provided free by the government, has improved the quality of life of HIV infected people, but patients’ ongoing care falls to voluntary care-givers in each village.

Where AIDS has decimated so many families, the sisters support households where both parents have died and older children are in charge. Eighty per cent of children in Kasanka are single or double orphans. The sisters encourage the children to continue schooling.

Through their ministry the sisters daily confront the stigma and dispel the superstition surrounding HIV/AIDS. By building trusting relationships with people, Sr Marie’s team are able to educate, care and counsel. Empowerment of this kind has ensured high participation rates among local people. Catholic Mission proudly supports this work.

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In the Diocese of Harare, for example, Catholic Mission’s work with Children contributes to projects that sustain those who number among the most vulnerable members of society – children with disabilities.

Many of the children have multiple ailments requiring specialised medicines and treatment. Some are HIV-positive. In the Missionary Childhood Centre at St Aloysius parish disabled children are embraced and included. Food, clothing and education are provided for them. Despite their disabilities, those who live with their families will contribute to the household through their labour by tending animals, tilling fields and selling produce.

In a country where a lack of money for school fees denies many children the right to be educated, having a child with a disability only magnifies the problems faced by underresourced communities. These children, along with those who are orphaned and those infected with HIV/AIDS, have many bad days. They suffer from hunger, pain and the sadness of neglect.

The children at St Aloysius Parish Centre are special needs kids who are cherished and know the dignity of work. They also contribute to the centre’s income through the small business of candle-making, using old candle ends to make new ones.

These are sold in the local market towards covering the centre’s ongoing costs.

Another small oasis is the Jairo Jiri Centre for Children where 160 children with disabilities reside. These children are provided with food, clothing, story books, games and educational equipment.

Unaffordable school basics like exercise books, pens, even soap, are supplied through Catholic Mission subsidies.

The local people contribute by volunteering time, labour and such money as they can afford. Yet these children do not want for a loving environment. Care is given by religious sisters and volunteers. Birthdays are celebrated with cakes. The feast days of saints brings forth the smiles that ice cream and lollies elicit in children the world over.

Catholic Mission donors add to the quality of life of these children. As little as $100 pays for a child’s medications or blankets and bedding for a year; $200 feeds a child for a year; $50 puts a child into new shoes.

Timor-Leste “On this Rock” Our major appeal for World Mission Month 2010 focused on our near neighbour Timor-Leste and the theme announced by Pope Benedict XVI: “Build Community Together in Christ.”

Pakistan

During decades of Indonesian occupation the Church in TimorLeste was both witness and courageous presence to the suffering of the Timorese people. But that is in the past.

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Catholic Mission in Asia Across Asia Catholic Mission works with local communities in different countries to train leaders, to clothe, educate and care for marginalised children, and build infrastructure, including schools and churches. In 2010 we appealed for prayers for the 23,000 people left homeless in the Mentawai Islands, Padang Diocese in Indonesia hit by tsunami. This natural disaster however was dwarfed by the sheer scale of devastation caused by floods in Pakistan.

Thailand Sarnelli House Timor-Leste

Pakistan Flood Devastation The August floods that swept across Pakistan killed thousands and left 20 million people homeless. On the ground Catholic Mission Pakistan immediately sought to help victims, as worldwide Catholic Mission offices called for prayers.

Catholic Mission’s Director in Pakistan, Father Mario Rodrigues was in the midst of organising relief efforts across the nation.”We went to the aid of the displaced people with shelter, fresh water and basics like lentils, sugar, rice and milk,” he said. “The long term needs are rebuilding whole communities which have been swept away.”

Fr Mario said despite Catholics being just one per cent of Pakistan’s population they gave unreservedly to the disaster relief. “We set up our own relief camps in parish churches. We collected house to house. The response was generous. The people gave bottled water, cash and food, whatever they had.”

Trucks delivered the goods to relief camps and distributed them to the needy.

Fr Mario’s personal appeal for prayers and support was heard

by Catholic Mission’s supporters in Australia. National Director, Mr Martin Teulan responded: “As Catholics and Australians it’s part of our identity to help a mate. The people of Pakistan are ordinary people faced with a grave humanitarian crisis. Our hearts, our prayers and assistance goes out to them.”

Sarnelli House is an orphanage in the village of Don Wai in Thailand. Founded by the Redemptorist Priest, Father Michael Shea in 2000, Sarnelli House is a safe refuge for more than 120 orphans rejected by their families because they are HIV/AIDS positive.

Since 2001-2002 the lives of the children have been extended through the use of antiretroviral drugs that combat the infections common among HIV/AIDS sufferers. Many are in their mid-teens and you wouldn’t know they are sick, says Kate Interona, the Australian nurse who set up the medication program. “They’re happy, into the normal teenage things.

They’ve lived years beyond expectations and they’re going strong, so hopefully they will have a normal life.”

In 2007 the orphanage was enlarged through the addition of Nazareth House: a ten room residence for girls aged 12 years and older. Formal schooling at the local school is supplemented by lessons in cooking, sewing, personal health and Thai handicrafts.

Catholic Mission directly impacts on the children’s quality of life.

“Our donors pay for those practical things which literally make the difference between life and death for these beautiful kids,” says Kate Interona. Donors provide medicines and treatment for children, as well as transportation, hospitalisations, vitamins, food, lodging, clothing and school fees.

Today the Timorese people pursue their own destiny in freedom.

Yet poverty and lack of resources remain their constant companions in the uphill climb to reconstruction. Achieving this, and healing the deep wounds of the people , will take years to accomplish.

Catholic Mission supports the Church in Timor-Leste through subsidies for leadership programs, the education and care of vulnerable children, including orphans, and in practical development projects requested by communities. Here are two examples: Rebuilding the Church of St Theresina, Ossu parish

Located in a mountainous region 150 kilometres from the capital Dili, Ossu parish has Mass attendances of up to 21,000 people. The original church is too small and in a very dilapidated condition.

Parish priest, Father Tiago Soares da Costa, started a “ten-cent” fund wherein worshippers donate ten cents, and bring a rock, which will be used in the foundations of the new church. His hope is to rebuild St Theresina’s to accommodate everyone.

News that the people were building their church stone by stone, reminded us of Christ’s direction to Simon/Peter: “On this rock I will build my Church”. It was this quote and the photo of a man and a small girl holding foundation stones that heralded our World Mission Month appeal.

St Peter and Paul Major Seminary, Dili

The first group of seminarians was ordained in 2006. Today, graduates like Deacon Natolino Gusmao, 28, are ministering to the Timorese people. “What keeps me giving in my life is that I feel compassion for my people. I know their pain and suffering.

We share a vision of hope. My work is to journey with them in Christ,” says Natolino.

Catholic Mission subsidises the formation of the seminarians.

With a record enrolment of 126 seminarians, Catholic Mission supported the seminary with urgently required infrastructure: the installation of wells, electric pumps, and a large in-ground water tank, to supply fresh drinking water.

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Throughout 2010 the story of Mary MacKillop’s faith journey kept being heard: How this woman of deep faith defied convention in founding a congregation of religious women who missioned to the poor, isolated and marginalised children of Australia and New Zealand. On October 17, Pope Benedict XVI in Rome declared Mary MacKillop Australia’s first saint.

The catastrophic earthquake that shook Haiti for a half minute on January 12, 2010, will require decades to recover from. Worst hit was the densely populated capital of Port-au-Prince. The utter destruction was unprecedented in modern times: 316,000 killed, 300,000 injured, one million left homeless, more than 200,000 buildings deemed unsafe and vital infrastructure flattened.

Australia Supporting Indigenous Education

The Solomon Islands Discernment and Leadership Formation

Haiti A Resurrection Spirit

Bolivia The Rivers of Faith

Catholic Mission supports the Home Mission Fund which makes possible many services and programs in remote and isolated communities. The Diocese of Broome is the largest recipient of the Home Fund. Covering a vast 773,000 square kilometres of northern Australia, Broome includes the brown desert and iron red hills of the East Kimberley.

The faith formation of men as priests and brothers remains a vital mission for the Church in the Solomons. Nazareth Apostolic Centre, the minor seminary in Honiara, is one project which is supported by Catholic Mission. At Nazareth 20 young men from dioceses and religious congregations are undertaking their initial formation as priests or religious brothers.

As the horror of the earthquake was revealed to the world, Catholic Mission joined Pope Benedict XVI’s appeal for prayers for the stricken people of Haiti.

The roads are swollen creeks, the highways are muddy rivers named El Rio Beni, El Rio Madre de Dios and El Rio Orthon. This is the Vicariate of Jesus Nazaeno in the vast and humid Amazon region of Bolivia.

At Warnum (Turkey Creek) Catholic Mission subsidies the Mirrilingki Spirituality Centre, located a short distance from the Gija Aboriginal community. Mirrilingki is a place where faith formation, education and dialogue happen. It has accommodation for groups and families.

The junior seminarians undertake discernment in a rigorous educational setting which includes classes in English, catechism, personal development, theology and history. Each Wednesday they work vegetable gardens whose produce supplements their meals.

In Warnum, Mary MacKillop’s legacy is very much alive. Over 30 years ago the Josephite Sisters founded Ngalangangpum (“Mother and Child”) School, recognised as an outstanding model of “two-way learning” where formal education is combined with the Gija’s determination that their language, songs and dances are included in the curriculum.

“There are some physical hardships involved. It’s not an easy life,” says the rector, Father Greg Walsh CM. “The formation of the minor seminarians is done in an atmosphere in which the candidates and the Church may mutually discern.”

When alcohol abuse became rife in Warnum the Gija called back one of the school’s first teachers, Sister Theresa Morellini, to assist. Sr Theresa and another sister established a safe house for women and children threatened with domestic violence. Adult education however is a powerful weapon in the elders fight against this abuse.

When Catholic Mission visited Mirrilingki, Sr Theresa was facilitating a drug and alcohol intervention program with Gija elders. Collaboration is the key to changing community attitudes to binge drinking, says Sr Theresa: “The program includes therapeutic work in the bush where we use traditional healing, culture, as well as psychology to assist recovery. This is the work the Gija calls me to do.”

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“God gave me talent, understanding and knowledge. He wants me to share with others. For 11 years it has been my aim to be a priest.

Coming here I feel my prayers are answered and I’m now studying for my life’s mission.” - Edward Uekeim.

“I feel called to serve God in the priesthood. A major need of my diocese is a shortage of priests. The people are eager to know about our Catholic faith but due to a lack of priests we risk losing our people to other faiths.” - Michael Iateba.

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In this impoverished nation, where most of the population lives on just $2 a day, the Church has long played an active role in bringing services to the people. In 2009, in the wake of devastating floods, Catholic Mission internationally had provided more than AU$500,000 to fund basic and preventative healthcare, education, pastoral care, building and reconstruction.

The tragedy of the January earthquake extended to every family and parish: hospitals, schools, churches, convents and seminaries lay in ruins. The dead numbered many priests, religious and pastoral workers, including Port-au-Prince’s Archbishop Joseph Serge-Miot. The survivors were deeply traumatised.

Subsidies from Australia already allocated to Haitian projects in the previous year saw nearly $100,000 redirected to post-quake relief work. On the ground, the Church in Haiti responded to the crisis in ways practical and symbolic. Less than seven weeks after the quake Haiti’s bishops had recalled all 243 seminarians. The new academic year opened in a “canvas seminary”. Acres of tent schools, hospitals and presbyteries joined the tens of thousands of displaced people also living under canvas.

Father Clarck de la Cruz, the rector of the major seminary where 15 died, voiced the trauma felt by many: “The physical wounds of the injured are self-evident but emotional scarring will take much longer to heal.”

The terrain presents many physical challenges to the cause of evangelisation. Remoteness, distance and encroaching jungle means that the only way for the Rural Pastoral Institute (RPI) to reach far-flung villages is by riverboat.

The remoteness of the settlements means it may be a year between pastoral visits so great emphasis is placed on the formation and training of local lay leaders. These catechists prepare the faithful for the sacraments they will receive when the RPI team arrives.

To reach the people, the RPI team sets out on month-long river journeys. There is personal sacrifice and danger in their ministry: extreme heat, disease-carrying insects, exposure, and the unpredictability of the river levels makes their work both challenging and hazardous. Nonetheless it is work they gladly undertake.

At each village they are received warmly by a lay leader who has undergone formation in liturgy and prepared those inhabitants who are to receive the sacraments. In 2009, the RPI made nearly 320 pastoral visits to remote villages where 428 Baptisms, 95 Communions, 21 Confirmations, four weddings and two training courses were completed.

To this end, an emergency meeting of Catholic Mission National Directors in Orlando, Florida, devised long-term programs to address the psychological, spiritual and liturgical needs of parishioners and Church workers.

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“Build Community Together in Christ”: the theme of World Mission Month called Aussies to share the Good News of Jesus as builders of God’s kingdom on Earth. The focus of our World Mission Day Appeal was our neighbour Timor-Leste, a country with a tragic history of violent oppression and neglect. Throughout all, the Timorese Church has been a witness to the people’s suffering, a sanctuary and advocate for justice.

Faith. Hope. Love. Three small words that express the heart of Catholic Mission’s supporters and the missionaries they encourage throughout the world.

In the liberated Timor-Leste of today, much work remains to be done to rebuild the nation. Our appeal assists the Timorese in building infrastructure, training leaders, educating children, caring for orphans and provisioning health clinics.

Advocacy

The canonisation of Blessed Mary MacKillop on 17 October was also a wonderful blessing in World Mission Month. We celebrated Mary’s legacy of mission to the disadvantaged children of Australia and New Zealand, and in countries like Timor-Leste and Peru. Parishes and schools received our resources – including posters, DVDs and suggested activities – to help promote and celebrate our theme.

In 2010 advocacy for children involved supporting the Marist network in training workers from Australia and the Pacific in Children’s Human Rights and preparing them to provide information to the United Nations about the needs of children in their communities.

Catholic Mission School Program Catholic Mission’s school resource “All Children are Sacred – Fight for Their Rights” was distributed to all Australian Catholic primary and secondary schools. The resource kit, in digital format (CD-ROM) weaves the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child into the resource, supporting Gospel concepts of the inherent dignity and sacredness of children. The resource explores the lives of children around the world, including Catholic Mission projects, stories, and statistical information. The CD-ROM also provides interactivity through links to Catholic Mission’s website.

Children’s Mission School Partners Similar to the CD-ROM were the 10 monthly Children’s Mission School Partner email updates sent to schools. Each monthly update focuses on a country and an issue such as education, health or disabilities. Versions are produced for secondary and primary schools and include powerpoint presentation, reflection and prayer, and advocacy ideas.

Global Immersion Program In a virtual age nothing can compare with the authentic experience of visiting a mission territory. Getting Involved Globally (GIG) is Catholic Mission’s cross-cultural immersion and mission exposure program. It offers experiential learning opportunities for its participants, all of whom come from a variety of age groups, backgrounds and cultures. In 2010, GIG groups travelled to Timor-Leste, PNG, Vietnam, Cambodia and Fiji. One group also experienced life and culture in the remote Aboriginal community of Kalumburu in Western Australia.

CSYMA 2010 was a growth year in Catholic Mission’s partnership with Catholic Schools Youth Ministry Australia (CSYMA) as the numbers of participating schools rose from 30 to 40. CSYMA highlights in 2010 included the eastern and southern staff conference held in Melbourne. The conference’s theme on the evangelisation of young people was affirmed in action by the energetic National Youth Ministry Team’s four-month tour of the partner schools. The three-person team presented their peer-topeer ministry in schools in Brisbane, Melbourne, Lismore, ACT, Sale and Sandhurst Dioceses, Tasmania, and in regional NSW. 10/11

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In 2009 Catholic Mission decided to focus its work of advocacy on two areas: advocacy for Children and advocacy in support of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

Significantly, Catholic Mission Australia for the first time asked recipients of funding to report on the measures they are taking to ensure child protection. It encouraged them to adopt codes of conduct to further this protection.

With the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, Catholic Mission promoted on World Environment Day media awareness of the concerns voiced by indigenous communities about the loss of habitats caused by ocean inundation in the Torres Strait Islands. Catholic Mission continued its past support for the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Catholic Council (NATSICC) in facilitating the distribution of liturgy materials used on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sunday.

Village Space In 2010 Catholic Mission’s Village Space program “Climate Justice” received a Highly Commended Eco-award from ARRCC (Australian Religious Response to Climate Change).

This theatre-in-education program deals with the issue of climate change and its challenges for people around the world.

The narrative takes students from drought-ravaged Australia to the flooding in Bangladesh, to justice issues concerning rising sea levels and the effects on food prices of bio-fuel production in Brazil and Mexico.

Alongside the Climate Justice program we offered the Children’s Human Rights Village Space. Our true stories of homeless and vulnerable children in Australia, Uruguay, the Philippines, and of child soldiers in Uganda, used the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child as a framework. Entering into the drama, our audiences grasp the reality of children whose basic human rights are denied and of the advocacy role of the Church in defending them against exploitation and slavery.

Village Space’s Gospel-inspired justice message elicits feedback spontaneous and heartfelt, like these: “Thank you for helping our students become more aware of climate change. Our students said they now realise that they have a major responsibility in healing the world from the effects of climate change.”

– REC at St Mel’s primary school, Campsie NSW “The Village Space was well-researched, entertaining and challenging.”

– Secondary teacher, FCJ College, Benalla VIC “This is the Church in action. This was such a simple and engaging way of finding out what is happening and our role in it.”

– Secondary teacher, Melbourne VIC

More than 50,000 donors together raised over $16.7 million towards Catholic Mission’s work with communities, children and church leaders. This is a tremendous effort and makes 2010 a record year!

Of particular note is the foresight shown by many faithful friends in years past, who chose to remember Catholic Mission in their will. We thank God for their love that extends beyond life now, and for the difference that is possible from the $3.5 million received from these bequests.

Such a heartening result means more children like baby Lamitu will receive the life-saving nutrition they need, more missionaries like Sister Marie Bourke can reach remote communities affected

by HIV/AIDS, and more young people like Julius Made will have the opportunity to be trained to share God’s message of salvation.

Every gift you make is an act of faith – that God will multiply the gift through the hands of his servants. Every gift brings hope – that people everywhere can experience a full, healthy life physically and spiritually. Every gift shares love – the sacrificial love of Jesus Christ that reaches out in humility every day. Thank you!

Thank you also for your prayers that have united with those of our neighbours across the world, and are reciprocated with gratitude. In the midst of floods deluging much of the country, Fr Mario Rodrigues, Catholic Mission’s Director in Pakistan, said, “I feel the greatest assistance in the next few days are the prayers of the people all over the world… God’s blessings on you all.

Please hold us in your prayers this night and next.”

And we are grateful for the support given in other ways. Amidst canonisation celebrations for Mary MacKillop, media agencies throughout Australia and overseas highlighted the continuing work of the Josephite Sisters in the East Kimberley region of Broome Diocese, funded by Catholic Mission. In such a remote part of north-western Australia, Sister Theresa Morellini and local leaders of the Gija people run a drug and alcohol intervention program, and a safe house for women and children, to bring healing from abuse.

Seeing the initiative of school teachers and students at McCarthy Catholic College in Tamworth to raise money through a major walkathon for children living in the Kalikiliki Settlement in Lusaka, Zambia, was inspirational. Their passion raised over $26,000 to build a school that will provide education for 300 children! As teacher Luke Adams said, “Our students are enthusiastic because they are helping kids just like themselves.”

Catholic Mission’s fresh, new-look logo was launched this year as part of our commitment to encourage Australians to get involved with and support mission. “God reaching out” is central to the Gospel-centred vision and values of Catholic Mission. God is also at work through each of us, inspiring us to reach out to others and each other.

Whether celebrating World Mission Sunday, making a generous gift, telling others about the work of Catholic Mission, or praying for missionaries in far-flung dioceses, you are standing in solidarity with Catholic brothers, sisters and lay workers who serve with humble hearts.

May God bless you for your humble heart of faith, hope, love.

Finance Report

Bring World Mission Month to your School

Year ended 30 November 2010 2010 Overseas distribution from 2009 Income

AUD

Working with Children Bangladesh Bolivia Burundi Democratic Republic of the Congo Dominica Ecuador Ethiopia Haiti India Jamaica Kenya Madagascar Malawi Namibia Nepal Nigeria Peru Rwanda Sierra Leone South Africa Sri Lanka St Vincent & Grenadines Sudan Tanzania Thailand The Philippines Timor-Leste Uganda Vietnam Zambia Zimbabwe Total Disbursements

81,830 10,313 86,047 138,225 33,621 109,753 7,408 99,097 743,083 77,386 125,367 125,367 202,752 15,460 22,794 136,764 74,080 52,426 81,159 125,367 79,779 30,430 41,029 136,764 117,731 45,588 20,515 126,962 71,231 158,418 96,874 3,273,621

Working with Communities Bolivia Ethiopia Haiti India Indonesia Noumea Tarawa-Nauru Trinidad and Tobago Uganda Zambia Total Disbursements

290,535 451,512 5,243 756,962 400,490 79,779 91,085 127,155 970,556 274,211 3,447,528

Working with Church Leaders Angola Laos Myanmar Papua New Guinea Solomon Islands Thailand Vietnam Total Disbursements NB: Funds to Sudan withheld due to internal political difficulties, to be distributed in 2011 Accumulated Special Purpose Funds to be distributed in 2011

Total Overseas Distributable Funds

278 31,724 332,921 73,050 4,114 56,733 342,075 840,894 75,220 105,495 7,742,759

Comparative figures for the total distributions only have been included in this report. Variation due to rounding.

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Catholic Mission Annual Report 2010

2010 Home Mission Fund distribution from 2009 Income Armidale Broome Cairns Darwin Geraldton Port Pirie Rockhampton Sale Toowoomba Townsville Wilcannia-Forbes PALMS Total

Funds raised by Works in 2010 12,000 875,000 35,000 385,000 140,000 50,000 50,000 5,000 7,000 150,000 55,000 40,000 1,804,000

2010 Special Purpose Appeal Fund distribution from 2009 and 2010 Income

AUD

Funds to Ghana, Zambia, India, Sierra Leone, Timor-Leste, Solomon Islands, Uganda and Pakistan.

Total Disbursements

2009 AUD

2010 AUD

4,729,842 7,130,019 784,978 203,039 57,362 12,905,240

5,831,688 9,705,802 1,987,234 743,697 – 18,268,421

AUD

470,376 470,376

NB: Haiti Earthquake Appeal income ($76,991) will be distributed in 2011

2010 Total Global distribution by Catholic Mission (Pontifical Mission Societies) from 2009 funds

AUD

Working with Children Africa Americas Asia Europe Oceania Total Disbursements

12,923,954 1,186,882 7,046,528 135,510 316,494 21,609,368

Working with Communities Africa Americas Asia Europe Oceania Total Disbursements

57,145,173 4,430,530 29,726,071 1,530,843 3,204,232 96,036,849

Working with Church Leaders Africa Americas Asia Europe Oceania Total Disbursements

27,422,553 607,764 11,412,596 352,209 423,465 40,218,586

(Conversion from USD to AUD: 1 AUD = 0.877425 USD as achieved from 2009 funds)

Working with Children Working with Communities Working with Church Leaders Special Purpose Appeal Other* Total

* In 2010, other income has been allocated to the three Works with Children, Communities and Church Leaders

Gross Income by Diocese for 2010 Diocese

Adelaide Armidale Ballarat Bathurst Brisbane Broken Bay Broome Bunbury Cairns Canberra/Goulburn Darwin Geraldton Hobart Lismore Maitland Melbourne Parramatta Perth Port Pirie Rockhampton Sale Sandhurst Sydney Toowoomba Townsville Wagga Wagga Wilcannia-Forbes Wollongong Maronite Other* Total

310,812 73,527 99,798 90,155 1,136,988 588,345 9,697 107,922 109,501 346,804 47,975 37,895 75,345 190,562 480,136 3,800,302 692,818 1,262,751 100,213 161,200 61,370 115,124 1,775,386 195,201 83,296 144,169 17,653 732,931 57,362 12,905,240

328,970 98,866 149,181 97,253 1,669,269 657,288 11,559 108,735 230,505 335,684 51,719 42,962 75,548 250,257 480,588 4,996,401 573,056 1,400,508 78,985 200,418 81,348 105,559 3,644,927 117,010 150,994 161,526 14,990 619,590 9,100 1,525,626 18,268,421

cation Teachers, To School Principals and Religious Edu nising your next I am writing to ask you to consider orga World Mission school fundraiser for Catholic Mission’s of difference to others.

Month. Your effort will make a world however the study World Mission Month falls in October can make this a busy commitments of senior high students r whole school event time, so you might like to stage you is what the students early, in September for instance. This th do. wor Tam at McCarthy Catholic College in icated their annual Last September these students ded in Zambia. In one ol walkathon towards building a scho being spent on is ey day they raised $26,000! This mon School in the ary Prim e Peac completing Mar y Queen of bia.

Kalikiliki Settlement, Zam I came to Australia, I had not heard of Tamworth before y, Luke Adams, had arth McC at but the teacher coordinator Mar y Queen of Peace heard of our project of building the and we want you to Primary School. “Yes, we know you years now we’ve asked succeed,” Luke told me. “For three shoes of those kids our students to put themselves in the they’re helping ause bec in Kalikiliki. They’re enthusiastic kids just like themselves.” g cement floors, for McCarthy’s money will pay for layin a water pump, fitting and installing an electric generator school. this of s wall windows and painting the the cheque I told the When I went to Tamworth to accept ’s blessings on all God and school assembly. “Thank you ey is a means to mon This urs. of your generous endeavo what I felt. tly exac is t Tha .” make dreams come true 1,700 Catholic schools I am told that in Australia there are g. What all those ndin atte with over 678,000 students ed a Catholic Mission nsor spo too they children could do if g God’s Kingdom on project in the world is literally to brin Earth a little closer into being.

* Other includes investment distributions, interest, cost recovery initiatives, partnerships and any other non-operational income.

God Bless you all,

Breakdown of 2010 Income

Rev. Fr Bernard Makadani Zulu PMS National Director – Zambia

Funds distributable for overseas 7,742,759 Funds distributable for Home Mission Fund 1,804,000 Movement in carry over funds 109,354 Community Education 1,733,260 Reinvest in (Withdrawal from) Reserves* (1,055,292) Abnormal expenses 1,412 Special project cost (61,954) Net operating expenses 2,631,701 Total 12,905,240 Percentage of net operating expenses over total income

20.39%

8,354,029 1,900,154 347,300 2,586,119 1,522,694 0 171,820 3,386,305 18,268,421 18.54%

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Dates to remember:

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Armidale Fr Ross O’Brien 02 6771 3517

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Rockhampton Rev Fr John Grace 1800 257 296 Sale Mrs Susan Grout 03 5174 0587

World Mission Day 2 3 O ct

Sandhurst Mr Adrian Gallagher 03 5443 8321 Sydney Ms Lana Turvey 02 9919 7800 Toowoomba Mrs Beatrice Lucas 07 4637 1508 Townsville Sr Therese Marie Fleming sgs 07 4726 3253

Children ’s Mission Day 26 Oct

Wagga Wagga 1800 257 296

Geraldton Ms Tricia Rogers 08 9964 2716

Wilcannia/Forbes 1800 257 296

Hobart c/- Mr Kevin Meese 03 9639 1344

Wollongong Mr Michael Deasy 02 4284 0970

Lismore 1800 257 296

National Office Mr Martin Teulan National Director 1800 257 296

Maitland Mr Barry Urwin 02 4979 1142

International Literacy Day 8 Sep

World AIDS Day 1 Dec (send Sr Marie and Sr R ogita a Christmas card)