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St Peter’s Connection with Encontro Com Deus 2016: Archived
The work of Encontro com Deus in Brazil The trauma of not being brought up by your own mother is something that no amount of toys, clothes, or food can substitute. A child without its own mum grows with enormous difficulties and without hope. At least 90% of “orphans” in Brazil are in fact children victims of abuse or of extreme poverty. The traditional response has been to remove the child from risk by separating them from their parents and housing them in orphanages. This has led to generations of ex-orphans unable to enter into normal society. Brazilian authorities have recognized this with orphanages no longer permitted by law, with…
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Refugee Response Syria 2015: Archived
We cannot have missed that a lot of people are in very grave need; fleeing unimaginable situations and going to desperate, perilous lengths to escape them. Some of us will have been very moved by the images and stories we have come across and outraged by the way many refugees have been treated (by some governments, the press and ordinary people) as they put everything on the line, having already suffered so much. So what can we do, to turn our compassion and anger into action? Here are some suggestions and a link to the short film, we watched in church recently, that has inspired them:- pray The Chapel in St. Peter’s is open for…
