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Sparring Padres – Sunday Telegraph: May 8th, 2008

Priests take to the ring to save young souls By Stephen Corby WHEN Father Dave Smith heard the Christian call to fight the good fight. he took it literally. For 18 years, the pugilist preacher has been running the Holy … Continue reading

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Congratulations to Our Citizens of the Year – Marrickville Matters, February 2009

Father Dave Smith and Una Mu have been awarded the 2009 Marrickville Citizen of the Year.  Father Dave is the reverend at Holy Trinity Church and also runs Holy Trinity Gym in Dulwich Hill. “I think of myself as a … Continue reading

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Father Dave Takes Another Title – The Glebe, 5th February 2009

It’s the fight club with a difference. There are no superegos played by Hollywood actors and the setting in a former church in Dulwich Hill is far from secretive. Run by Father Dave Smith, the club meets at the Holy … Continue reading

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Troubled Aussie Youths Find Friend in “Fighting Father Dave” – The Billings Gazette, March 7 2009

It seems like a paradox: teach unruly youths how to box to dissuade them from pursuing a life of violence. But an Anglican priest from Australia swears that it works. The Rev. Dave Smith serves as the priest at Holy Trinity … Continue reading

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Inspirational Citizens – The Valley Times, January 29th 2009

Holy Trinity Church Reverend Father Dave Smith and Marrickville High School Pacific Islander Community Liaison Officer Una Mu have done the community proud. Father Dave was named Marrickville’s Citizen of the Year and Una was named the Young Citizen of the Year at the … Continue reading

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Solomon Looking Good – Inner Western Courier, 23rd June 2009

EGBERIME BRINGS HOME THE AUSTRALIAN JUNIOR WELTERWEIGHT BOXING CROWN by Sam Warrad Inner West-based Nigerian boxer Solomon Edgerime has thrilled his sparring partners at Dulwich Hill’s Holy Trinity gym by capturing the vacant Australian junior welterweight crown. Egberime defeated Mick Shaw … Continue reading

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Forum on Gaza – Inner Western Courier, 3rd February 2009

UNITED AGAINST VIOLENCE: Father Dave Smith, Sheikh Mansour and Anthony Loewenstein at the Imam Husain Islamic Centre forum last Friday. THE RECENT Israeli Defense Force (IDF) offensive on the Gaza Strip has polarised people all over the world. Marrickville’s Citizen … Continue reading

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Vicar in Unholy Row – Inner Western Courier, 30th July 2009

by Marie Sanson (Inner Western Courier) A GAY ex-evangelical preacher was banned from speaking inside Dulwich Hill’s Holy Trinity Church last Sunday by the Anglican Diocese of Sydney. Anthony Venn Brown was to speak inside Holy Trinity about reconciling his … Continue reading

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ASIO Keeps Risk a Secret – Inner West Courier, July 28th 2009

by Marie Sanson A RESPECTED Muslim cleric has been denied permission to visit his sick father in Iran because he has been told he is a security risk – but ASlO will not say why. Sheik Mansour Leghaei from Iran, … Continue reading

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