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Vocational Promotion Meeting. From 10-16 August a meeting, organized by the Latin American Conference of Vincentian Provinces (CLAPVI) was held in Caracas (Venezuela) dealing with the promotion of vocations. The theme of this meeting was “Christ calls you… the poor await you.” Twenty-four confreres and 22 Daughters of Charity participated in this gathering. The objective [...]

Those who read Spnaish will be interested in the new web site of CLAPVI – The Latin American Conference of Vincentian Provinces http://www.svp.e12.ve/clapvi/ Related FAMVIN Posts:No Related FAMVIN Posts

Province of Germany -150th Anniversary Curitiba, Brazil – 100th Anniversary Panningen, Holland – 100th AnniversaryGermany -150th Anniversary. On 18-20 July, the Superior General was in Trier to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Province of Germany. The province was begun by four diocesan priests who, seeing the needs of the poor in [...]

Ross Dizon has been good enough to translate an article on the Bishop who, among other things, sold the car he had been given to use t in order to give the money for the poor and continued to use public transportation. His cause for canonization was introduced Sept. 20.[The following is an adapted translation [...]

MANHICA, Mozambique – The world’s richest man donated $168 million yesterday to fight malaria and urged the world to intensify its battle against a disease that kills more than 1 million people a year. Hopefully this story will encourage all of us in our fight against malaria. New York Daily News – http://www.nydailynews.com “It’s time [...]

From 9-11 July, Fr. Benjamín Romo, the Ecclesiastical Assistant of the AIC, participated in a meeting of the Permanent Committee of this Association. The meeting was held in Paris and dealt with the following themes: formation, diffusion of the Lines of Action of the last International Assembly and the organization of a meeting of the [...]

On occasion of the second centennial birth of their founder, Fr Le Prevost, the Religious of St. Vincent de Paul began year-long celebration August 10. It is scheduled to end on the same date in 2004 For background on this branch of the Vincentian Family see http://www.famvin.org/cm/curia/vincentiana/1998/98-4-rsvp.html For further information visit http://www.relsv.qc.ca/ (French or Portuguese) [...]

It’s ‘training with a purpose’ for Seabees, who saved Council $120,000 in camp cabin construction costs Circle V Ranch Camp, Los Padres National Forest, CA — A group of United States Naval Seabee reservists just completed an important construction mission, but this one was far from the dangers of Iraq, where many of their comrades [...]

Requested by the Congregation of the Mission and also by many faithful and bishops of the Church in Perú and in Valencia, the process of canonization of Archbishop Lissón will open this coming September 20, Saturday, at the cathedral of Valencia (Spain). This cause is of particular interest to the Vincentian Family and to the [...]

Outline of the Celebration in Rome. 1) Prayer Service and gathering on the eve of the Beatification presided by Fr. Robert P. Maloney, C.M., Superior General (8 November at 5:30 p.m. in the Parish of St. Joachim); 2) Fraternal gathering (8 November at 6:30 p.m. at the Casa Maria Immacolata); 3) Beatification ceremony presided by [...]