FAMVIN News

  Can you  design a replicable model of a social business that creates at least ten jobs for individuals living in poverty? That is the challenge! On September 23, 2011, Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus was honored with the St. Vincent de Paul Award by DePaul University in recognition of his leadership in the development and implementation [...]

How were these passions connected? “…”after thinking the project over, Vincent reached the conclusion that by doing something for the clergy,something would be done for the poor as well.” VinFormation celebrates January 25: Foundation of the Congregation of the Mission with two new slide presentations. “Vincent de Paul was fired by passion to meet the material and spiritual needs [...]

Is there hope for the future of religious life? An article in People Magazine prompted Sr. Denise LaRock to reflect on this question. “True, I am a very optimistic person, but I really do believe that religious life has a future and a role in the present.  The generation of young people in the Church today [...]

The Ladies of Charity Take on Washington is the headline on the national website of the Ladies of Charity USA. They will serve as host for the 2012 National Assembly, which will be held at the Hyatt Regency, Bethesda, Md., September 12–16. The program will focus on the theme of Giving in Faith and Love.    Related FAMVIN [...]

Australian Peter Reedy CM has launched the website of DePaul House Supervision and Consultation. He offers Individual Supervision Group Supervision Volunteer Training (in collaboration with Transforming Practices Inc.) Accompaniment(with specialisation in Formation for Ministry) He describes himself as having had “the gift of working in parishes in Sydney, Fiji, outback and coastal Central Queensland.  I have also [...]

The team will remain in Bolivia exactly for a month, visiting such Bolivian cities, as Sucre, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Potosí, Tarija, La Paz and El Alto. In those places, the Vincentians volunteers will have as their main mission to organize, stimulate and found Vincentian Conferences in parishes and schools. On January 7th, Project Bolivia of VINPAZ (“Vincentians for Peace”) [...]

The Daughters of Charity “committed to helping the poorest of the poor in Gaza” received an early Christmas visit  from His Beatitude Fouad Twal, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem. The Latin Patriarchate delegation was greeted in the courtyard of the parish to the rhythm of drums of the scout group of 60 members. About 300 people filled the church. [...]

Unfortunately, it cannot be taken for granted in the Solomons to attend school, and illiteracy is a major problem, especially among girls. This is why education has been chosen as the spine of the project St. Vincent and Louise Centre. It is our aim to enable those unable to join the system of public schooling for various reasons, [...]

Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) – A group of Asian Bishops – together with some priests, religious and lay people – will live for four days a true “immersion” in poverty, staying from January 18 to 21 among the poorest and the marginalized in the shantytowns on the outskirts of Bangkok. The Bishops will be accommodated in [...]

The following reflections begins by looking at the ways the different branches of the VIncentian Family define their ministry. It then addresses who are these poor men and women who are referred to in all the mission statements of the branches of the Vincentian Family? The next installment look at the way in which Vincent de Paul [...]