Catholics and World AIDS Day
posted: 19/11/2009
‘Can you drink the cup that I will drink? - HIV/AIDS: meeting the challenges, exploring the questions’ was a lecture given earlier this year to Catholics for AIDS Prevention and Support (CAPS) at Westminster Cathedral Hall, London.
Professor Margaret Farley's (Yale University divinity school, USA) lecture was followed later by a conference on HIV/AIDS, at Roehampton University, London. Her lecture and the response are here.
She spoke about the All-Africa Conference: Sister to Sister (AACSS) organisation in sub-Saharan Africa, about the situation in sub-Saharan regions and countries, about the guiding principles that have shaped the work of Sister to Sister, and about the sources of hope that sustain the women in African with whom they work.
‘Can you drink the cup that I will drink? - HIV/AIDS: meeting the challenges, exploring the questions’ lecture
All-Africa Conference: Sister to Sister (AACSS)
Catholic HIV and other worship materials
World AIDS Day Resources: Positive Rites is a 90+ page booklet of worship resources, many of which deal particularly with previous World AIDS Day themes. It also contains some of the services used in past years at Southwark Anglican Cathedral, CAFOD/Caritas events throughout the world.
£3.00 each, or £5.00 (for two, incl. p/p) from Catholics for AIDS Prevention & Support (CAPS), PO Box 24632, London E9 6XF - 020 8986 0807 - e-mail
These websites have HIV and worship materials you can download:
Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD) -
Christian Aid
Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance
The Balm in Gilead
The African American Lectionary
This website, Catholic Relief Services College, has academic resources for Catholics and others interested in HIV and the church's response, including a series of 7 videos.
Positive Catholics is a peer support network of men and women, who are living with HIV and have a catholic faith. email
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