Afghani cooking demonstration and dinner:

Friday 11^th May

The Parish Social Justice Group invites parishioners to an evening of food and conversation with our Muslim friends from Affinity. There will be an Afghani cooking demonstration followed by dinner.

Numbers are limited, so book in early!

When: Friday 11^th May at 7.30pm

Where: Parish Centre, Manly Vale

Cost: $20 per person

RSVP: By 4^th May with payment to the Parish Centre (2 King St, Manly Vale 2093. Ph 9949 4455)

The next social justice meeting is Tuesday May 8^th at 7.30pm.

Thank you to all who donated money over the last 12 months to support Ahmed while he awaits the outcome of his application for a humanitarian visa. In particular, thank you to the person who donated a very large amount of money anonymously to help Ahmed.

This was an amazing act of generosity. Thank you also to the person who has very kindly offered to house Ahmed temporarily upon his arrival if his application is successful. Having temporary accommodation is an essential component of the application for the humanitarian visa.

Ahmed’s application forms have now been submitted to the Department of Immigration and we hope Ahmed will be accepted on humanitarian grounds to settle in Australia. If successful, our role will be to welcome Ahmed, settle him into temporary accommodation and help link him into support services.

We will keep you posted — The Social Justice Group

Any human society, if it is to be well-ordered and productive, must lay down as a foundation this principle, namely, that every human being is a person, that is, human nature is endowed with intelligence and free will.

Indeed, precisely because he is a person he has rights and obligations flowing directly and simultaneously from his very nature. And as these rights and obligations are universal and inviolable so they cannot in any way be surrendered. If we

Back in late August I made an appeal to parishioners on behalf of the parish Social Justice group, for Ahmed, who is a Somali refugee living in Thailand.

He left Somalia because his minority clan was being attacked by rival clans, and his mother, wife and two children had been killed by a bomb in Mogadishu. Ahmed himself had been shot by a rival clan.

He has been assisted in Thailand by Fr John Murray OSA and he has also received financial support from this parish for which he thanks you sincerely.

At this point in time Ahmed and Fr John Murray are preparing the documentation for Ahmed’s bid to come and live in Australia.

He needs two further things in order to proceed with his application and these are;

1 A place of residence in Australia and

2 A job