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During the month of April, about 250 Passing on the Gift ceremonies will be hosted by Heifer International worldwide, as families who have benefitted from Heifer’s gifts “pay it forward” to others. Related FAMVIN Posts:No Related FAMVIN Posts

The current financial crisis challenges us to find new economic models to address “a poverty that impedes people and families from living according to their dignity, a poverty that offends justice and equality and, as such, threatens peaceful coexistence,” said Pope Benedict in his January 1 homily. Related FAMVIN Posts:No Related FAMVIN Posts

Word of God and Charity Toward the Poor, the eleventh of the synodal propositions submitted to Benedict XVI at the end of the world Synod of Bishops on the “Word of God in the Life and Mission of the Church,” held in October at the Vatican, could have been written by Vincent. Related FAMVIN Posts:No [...]

The concept behind the Advent Conpiracy (now in its third year) is simple: Worship Fully. Spend Less. Give More. Love All. See their website for various resources aimed at making Christmas the world changing event the first Christmas was. You can share your story there as well. Related FAMVIN Posts:Looking for for spiritual nourishment during [...]

Too often, strategies in the fight against hunger “are adopted which pursue particular goals rather than a holistic vision which ranks the human needs first,” warned the permanent observer of the Holy See to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in a recent meeting. Related FAMVIN Posts:No Related FAMVIN Posts

A new research paper by Harvard Professor Elaine C. Kamarck addresses how the Internet has enhanced productivity in government run anti-poverty programs and bridged physical and market isolation gaps prevalent in poor populations. Related FAMVIN Posts:No Related FAMVIN Posts

More than 15,000 people are now members of a Facebook group called The Official “Pay it Foward” Experiment. The title comes from the 2000 movie, Pay it Forward, in which a young schoolboy comes up with an ingenious idea to change the world for the better. Related FAMVIN Posts:No Related FAMVIN Posts

October 17 is The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, which has been celebrated every year since 1987. The theme for this year’s observance, in recognition of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Human Rights and Dignity of People Living in Poverty. Related FAMVIN Posts:No Related FAMVIN Posts

Vincent understood that when he ministered to the needs of the poor he was both ministering to Christ and being Christ in the world. He also understood that prayer was essential to our ability to effectively be Christ in the world. Last night I attended a talk by retired Archbishop Harry Flynn on the meaning [...]

Despite world economic conditions Pope Benedict appealed today to world leaders to “courageously take and apply the necessary measures to wipe out extreme poverty, hunger, ignorance and the plague of pandemics, which above all hit the most vulnerable.” Related FAMVIN Posts:How times have changed!Pope blesses US bishops’ social media efforts“That Strange Mass the Pope Doesn’t [...]