Scholarship program making a difference in Timor Leste
When Good Samaritan Sisters Rita Hayes and Michelle Reid volunteered for ministry in Timor Leste in 2000, they set out to identify the areas of greatest need in the wake...
Spiritual direction and mentoring are key aspects of SAM Program
In the second year of the Good Samaritan Study and Mentoring (SAM) Program, eight women will receive support as they undertake studies aimed at promoting women’s leadership within the Church....
New ACRATH President calls for united action to stop slavery
As the president of Australian Catholic Religious Against Trafficking in Humans, Sister Clare Condon SGS hopes to see more lay people joining the religious in their fight to stop slavery....
Banner highlights the call to ecological conversion
The need for urgent action on climate change will be a key focus in the lead-up to the Federal Election on May 21. Australian Religious Response to Climate Change (ARRCC)...
Palm Sunday Walk for Justice for Refugees
The Palm Sunday Walk for Justice for Refugees on April 10 this year is endorsed by the Sisters of the Good Samaritan. The Good Samaritan Refugee and Asylum Seeker Support...
Good Samaritan mural honours the past and inspires the community
The Sisters of the Good Samaritan will continue to be an integral part of the Saints Peter and Paul’s Catholic Primary School in Bulimba, Queensland, thanks to a new mural...
Women's Study and Mentoring Program doubles in size this year
The Good Samaritan Study and Mentoring Program has doubled in size for its second year, meaning that eight women will receive support to undertake studies aimed at promoting women’s leadership...
Banyule residential accommodation project a new collaboration
A new collaboration between the Good Samaritan Inn, a local parish and the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne will result in an expansion of residential services for women and their children....
Vale Sister Pauline Fitz-Walter SGS – a saint and a prophet
Good Samaritan Sister Pauline Fitz-Walter OAM, described by her friend Bishop David Cremin as “our Mother Teresa” for her service to people at the margins, died on December 16, 2021.
Last Good Sam retires from education role in Canberra & Goulburn
It was the end of an era when Good Samaritan Sister Sue Hallams retired from her role in pastoral ministry at St Francis Xavier College in Canberra in December 2021,...
Typhoon’s path of destruction results in loss of homes and livelihoods
More than a month after Typhoon Rai, or Odette as it is known locally in the Philippines, tore through the islands of Visayas and Mindanao, killing more than 400 people...
Kiribati battles to contain COVID-19 outbreak
The tiny Pacific nation of Kiribati, which until January this year had survived the COVID-19 pandemic without recording a case of the virus, is now battling to contain an outbreak...