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SYDNEY (CNS) -- Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott urged Catholics to write to their local state legislators because proposed euthanasia laws in New South Wales would fundamentally undermine the relationship between doctors and patients by legitimizing doctor-assisted suicide in the state.

As Australia gets its delayed vaccination rollout up to speed, other countries are moving ahead with boosters after discovering efficacy wanes over time.

Vatican City, Jan 15, 2020 / 11:52 am (CNA).- Cardinal Claudio Hummes, the relator general of the Amazon synod, sent a letter Monday to some ordinaries indicating that the apostolic exhortation on the synod should be promulgated this month or the next. “The draft is currently being reviewed and corrected and then needs to be translated. Pope Francis hopes to promulgate it by the end of this month or in early February,” Cardinal Hummes, who is also president of the Pan Amazonic Church Network, wrote in a Jan. 13 letter. Among the works of REPAM is “protection for the 137 ‘contactless t...

The 'oversight' in our COVID-19 vaccine rollout and the vulnerable Australians who will have to wait Posted ThuThursday 18 updated ThuThursday 18 FebFebruary 2021 at 9:00pm Rachel, Ivy and Tanya will all fall into phase 1b of Australia's COVID-19 vaccine roll out. ( Share Print text only Cancel The two COVID-19 vaccines Australians have long been waiting for are approved and one will be rolled out come Monday, but some in the community are still unclear about how they will get the jab and why they are not getting it sooner. Key points: Australia's COVID-19 vaccine program begins on Monday S...