It has been more than a year since the Government advised all New Zealanders traveling overseas to return home because of Covid-19.
More than 6,000 people were later discharged from 38 countries on 120 flights.
On March 18 last year, the then Secretary of State, Winston Peters, urged anyone traveling abroad to return home if they could – before borders closed and air routes dried up.
“If you are traveling, you will likely be stopped any minute now, so if you can go home now, ” he said at the time.
The government evacuation program runs until November.
Figures provided by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade show that the flight helped 6,292 people return to New Zealand.
Nearly 15,000 New Zealanders are still registered on the SafeTravel website as foreigners.
Today, being an army chaplain means listening and talking more than doing religious rituals. Vbs / ddps
To support the troops, army chaplains increased their scope of operations. To deal with the stress caused by the pandemic, they are now offering psychological assistance to soldiers.
This content is published on February 16, 2021 – 09:00 February 16, 2021 – 09:00 Olivier Pauchard
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Last spring, the army mobilized its troops to support civilian authorities during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic. This is the first time since World War Two that the Swiss army has been deployed in this way. A new support mission – this time consisting mainly of volunteers – is ongoing through the end of March to deal with the second wave underway.
The soldiers might not be performing complex combat maneuvers, but their new mission was not necessarily psychologically easy. In this context, the Army Chaplain asked 35 priests to participate. There are currently five pastors available for those who need additional counseling.
“Imagine a young person who has to leave civilian life overnight ending up in a hospital caring for a dying person. For example, I recently met a 21-year-old soldier whose job was to prevent a patient from unplugging a medical tube. It is psychologically exhausting,” he said. Captain Stefan Junger, chief of the Army Chapel.
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Richard Chilton with a copy of the book, on the history of New Zealand women’s cricket, started by his late wife Adrienne Simpson, and completed by Trevor Auger. Photo / David Haxton
We know a lot about the history of men’s cricket in New Zealand. But what about women’s games? Not much. Until now.
An authoritative and entertaining new book looks back on more than 150 years of New Zealand women’s cricket from its humble beginnings to its heyday on the international stage.
Games, players, challenges and obstacles, nothing was missed in “Warm Sun on My Face”, written by Trevor Auger and the late Adrienne Simpson.
The book’s origins go back to the late 1990s when Adrienne, a passionate cricket follower, started research and gathered a lot of material to write about.
“She did very thorough research and had lots of files and photos from her early days,” said her husband, Richard Chilton.
Adrienne hoped to release the book in conjunction with the 2000-2001 Women’s Cricket World Cup, which was held in New Zealand, but the scale of the project forced her to change her plans.
“He had compiled the book and wrote about two thirds of it, and the rest seemed to be cut and pasted as he wanted, but then he got cancer and started to become unwell.”
Adrienne died on 4 December 2010, at the age of 67, before she could finish her book.
Adrienne Simpson. Photo / Provided
In early 2011 Richard, from Paraparaumu, submitted manuscripts and research material to the New Zealand Cricket Museum, in the Basin Reserve, Wellington, for safekeeping in their archives.
“I put it all together into four large archive boxes, which included many audio tapes of when she interviewed an older female cricketer, and took it to a museum.
“The boxes contain a lot of material.
“They’re filed in and I don’t think about it anymore.”
As of 2013, Jamie Bell has become director of the museum, and with an interest in cricket history, recognizes a treasure trove of four boxes, which has the team coming together to turn Adrienne’s book project into a reality.
In 2017, Trevor Auger, who has been involved with cricket for most of his life, was tasked with completing the book, which he has done very well.
New book on the history of New Zealand women’s cricket. Photo / David Haxton
“It was an invitation that was easy to accept, especially when I saw the wealth of material Adrienne had collected,” he said in the introduction to the book.
“Her four cartons have now grown to seven, but this book could not have been written without Adrienne’s hard work or the constant inspiration her efforts gave me.
“I am proud to share the authorship of this book with him and I apologize that we never met.”
Richard, aware of plans to complete his book, discovered on December 4 last year, 10 years after his wife’s death, that the book was strongly supported by New Zealand Cricket and the New Zealand Cricket Players Association and many more. others, have been published.
“That’s kind of scary.”
The length and quality of the finished product took him by surprise.
“It’s a wonderful book and Adrienne will be very happy.”
(ANSA) – ROME, 24 DES – The health ministry said on Thursday that Italy had registered 18,040 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of coronavirus cases recorded here above two million to 2,009,317. It said 505 sufferers of COVID-19 had died in Italy in the past 24 hours. The number of deaths from the coronavirus in the country now stands at 70,900. The ministry said 593,632 people are currently positive for the virus here and 1,344,785 have recovered. It said 193,777 swabs had been taken in the past 24 hours, about 18,000 more than on Wednesday. The ratio of positive cases to the total number of tests was 9.3%, up from 8.3% on Wednesday. The ministry said the number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care fell by 35 to 2,589. It said 24,070 coronavirus patients were in regular hospital wards, down 476. (ANSA).
A street south of the Pakistani port city of Karachi is named after a Catholic nun in recognition of her services to education.
Sister Berchmans Conway was born in Ireland in 1930 and joined the Convent of Jesus and Mary in 1951 in Willesden, London, before moving to Pakistan at the age of 24 to devote her life to teaching in a Muslim country.
In 2012, he was awarded the Sitara-e-Quaid-e-Azam, one of the country’s highest civilian awards. The award quote celebrates “continued obedience to the call of duty over a 59 year period, which made Sister Berchmans a living example to emulate.”
In July 2019, Sister Berchmans was decorated with the Benedict Medal by the University of St. Mary, London, at Westminster Cathedral.
He teaches at the Convent of Jesus and Mary schools in Karachi, Lahore and Murree.
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Iftikhar Shallwani, commissioner of the Karachi Division, Fazal Dadabhoy, the honorary consul general of Ivory Coast, Sister Mary Lagan and other nuns, teachers and students inaugurate Berchmans Street near Clifton, Karachi, on November 16.
They also handed over the official Berchmans Road document to Sister Lagan and thanked all the nuns for their service to education in Pakistan.
Mariyam Kashif, a Catholic teacher and social activist from Karachi, said Sister Berchmans deserves this honor for her lifetime service in Pakistan.
“He is really our pride. His students include former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, opposition leader Maryam Nawaz Sharif, Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy, Asma Jahangir and other political and showbiz figures, “Kashif said.
“His contribution to education has been enormous and will be remembered forever. Sister Berchmans has dedicated nearly 71 years of her life to Lahore, Murree and Karachi, teaching Muslim, Christian, Persian and Hindu children. “
Father Mario Rodrigues said the inauguration of Berchmans Street was an acknowledgment of the nun’s dedication. “He builds character, teaches discipline, is humble, and encourages independent thinking,” he said.
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