Category Archives: Australian

Rob Galea – singer, priest

Robert-Galea-2-200x200-75pc_thumb.jpgOn “Christians who made a difference”  for 8Nov2015, we look at the life of Rob Galea, an Australian Catholic priest, singer and songwriter who sells tens of thousands of albums around the world. This is Rob Galea’s web site

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Mary MacKillop-Education for poor in Australia

200px-Mary_MacKillop.jpgListen again to the story of Mary MacKillop, broadcast on Sunday 18 October, on Songs of Hope. She is Australia’s one and only saint in the Catholic church. She was an Australian nun who founded a congregation of religious sisters that established a number of schools and welfare institutions throughout Australia. Her emphasis was education for the rural poor. Play time is 5 minutes.

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St Mary’s Caulfield – had a world impact

Oaktree-Caulfield-St-Marys-005A_thumb.jpgListen again to the story of local Melbourne church St Mary’s Anglican in the suburb of Caulfield (now called Oaktree Anglican). Members of this church took Christianity to India and especially Korea. The photo above is of St Marys church.

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Oswald Barnett got rid of Melbourne slums

Listen again to the story of Oswald Barnett. He was the devout Christian who worked to help the poor in the slums of Melbourne in the early 1900s. He was instrumental in founding the Housing Commission and moving slum dwellers into good accommodation. Broadcast on Songs of  Hope on 21 May 2017 at 8:45am.

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Eva Burrows headed the Salvation Army

eburrows 137x159The 28 Dec 2014 ‘Christian who made a difference’ was Eva Burrows, once the world-wide leader of the Salvation army. Her story was recounted by Rodney on Songs of Hope on 28/12/2014. The podcast is below

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