Student Cheryl Ee doing her part to raise funds.Four students from ITE College West spent seven weekends over July and August raising funds for Canossaville Children and Community Services.And the efforts by Alan Tan, Josh Ang, Cheryl Ee and Gan Shiying, supported by 15 of their fellow students, paid off handsomely – raising $76,000 for [...]
Business leader Sherman Kwek ferrying Franciscan Missionaries of the Divine Motherhood Sr Florence Wong and Gracelyn Ng, granddaughter of an Assisi Hospice patient, during the hospice’s Kampong Assisi event.A charity trishaw ride and a guess-the-number-of-Lego-bricks contest were some of the new activities held during Assisi Hospice’s recent fundraising event.The ride saw business leader Sherman Kwek [...]
Source: Caritas SingaporeThis year’s Archdiocesan Lenten campaign, Charities Week 2017, has raised $6.07 million, exceeding the amount raised last year by $241,000.Caritas Singapore, the archdiocese’s social mission arm, noted that despite Singapore’s uncertain economic outlook, many Catholic families, friends, businesses and schools donated generously in support of the charities and groups that come under Caritas’ [...]
Caritas Humanitarian Aid & Relief Initiatives, Singapore (CHARIS) has pledged a total of US$100,000 (S$140,000) in grant aid for two separate relief efforts.The aid is for Caritas Sri Lanka in response to the floods in the country, and the National Secretariat for Social Action (NASSA)/Caritas Philippines for victims of the ongoing clashes between Philippine government [...]
Caritas Humanitarian Aid & Relief Initiatives, Singapore (CHARIS), the overseas humanitarian arm of the Church in Singapore, has pledged an initial $20,000 in grant aid to Caritas Sri Lanka in response to the recent flooding disaster.The funds will be used to aid ground relief efforts – providing food, clean drinking water, hygiene kits and other [...]
SINGING CAROLS at commercial establishments has enabled The Harvesters to raise funds for a missionary group and evangelise the general public about Christmas.“We started carolling for fundraising purposes last year as an extension of our evangelistic ministry,” said Ms Jane Lau, who coordinated the carolling.The group, whose mission is to evangelise, raised some $2,000 last [...]
Caritas Humanitarian Aid & Relief Initiatives, Singapore (CHARIS), the overseas humanitarian arm of the Church in Singapore, has pledged an initial $30,000 in grant aid to Caritas Ecuador and $20,000 to Caritas Japan. The funds will be used for quake relief efforts – for food, shelter and other necessary support for those affected by the [...]
Filipino couples who haven’t been married in church find help in Fr Luciano. Annabelle Liang reportsOn every third Sunday of a month, Filipino Fr Angel Luciano presides over an unusual celebration at the Church of St Michael. There, he convalidates the marriages of Filipinos – with a few with kids in tow – at no [...]
The Archdiocesan Strategic Planning of Resources Team is pleased to report that we are making good progress with the Parish Mass Attendance Survey. As of the weekend of Feb 20/21, we have received 35,000+ responses representing a estimated total of 106,000 Catholics in Singapore. This is encouraging indeed and we thank all of you who [...]
Early detection and prevention also highlightedAbout 200 participants attended a talk on Understanding Dementia at Agape Village in Toa Payoh on Jan 23. It was organised by Church mental health charity, Clarity Singapore, in partnership with Total Health Rich In Vitality and Energy (THRIVE), a community mental health programme managed by Khoo Teck Puat Hospital. [...]