New Zealander Br Peter Bray FSC – the Vice Chancellor of Bethlehem University in the Holy Land – is not surprised by the Hamas attack on Israel at the weekend. He says his students and staff appear all to be safe. “This is a watershed moment .
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Wednesday, 13 January 2021, 2:19 pm
The country’s Catholic bishops are strongly urging
their faithful and everyone in Aotearoa New Zealand to get a
Covid-19 vaccine when it becomes available.
NZ
Catholic Bishops Conference President, Cardinal John Dew,
cited this country’s 2019-20 measles epidemic and the
endorsement of Covid-19 vaccines by Pope Francis as reasons
the bishops are calling on everyone to get
vaccinated.
Pope Francis this week lamented that some
people were saying they would refuse vaccination, adding:
“I believe that morally, everyone must take the vaccine.
It is the moral choice because it is about your life [and]
the lives of others.”