After hearing of the attacks on Jewish students on 6th August, the students at Good Samaritan organised to produce this response they felt needed to be heard. As Catholics, we stand in solidarity with our Jewish brothers. May we seek to be lights of hope and peace in our world today. May we start locally, in Sydney, our multicultural city filled with people of all walks of life. -------- The Justice and Peace Office and the Sydney Alliance, together with students and teachers from Good Samaritan Catholic College in Hinchinbrook, worked together to deliver this statement in response the racist attacks on Jewish students on a bus in Sydney on the 6th August 2014. Read more here: smh.au/nsw/teens-arrested-over-racist-attack-on-bus-full-of-jewish-school-students-20140807-101995.html ---------- The Justice and Peace Office is an agency of the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney that seeks to promote Catholic Social Teaching through projects and activities guided by the Churchs social teaching. Find out more by visiting justiceandpeace.org.au/ The Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney is 1 of the 50 partner organisations in the Sydney Alliance. The Sydney Alliance is a broad-based coalition of faith communities, community organisations and unions that build strong relationship between one another to work in unity for the common good. Find out more about the Sydney Alliance and its campaign towards the 2015 election here: sydneyalliance.org.au. Special thank you to the teachers and students of Good Samaritan Catholic College. Good Samaritan have strong commitment to justice and consistently express their faith through active participation in their local community, service, leadership and work in justice. To find out more visit, goodsamaritan.nsw.edu.au/
Posted on: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 04:04:28 +0000
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