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The Daughters of Charity is a religious community of sisters that runs schools, orphanages, and medical centers throughout the world. Its St. Vincent de Paul Orphanage in Quito, Ecuador, is near and dear to our hearts, and is one of the projects which Cross Catholic...
“This poor man called, and the Lord heard him” (Psalms 34,7) What a great idea of Pope Francis to set one Sunday a year for us to reflect on the situation of the Poor! In his message for this day, the Holy Father seems to make a reflection for the Vincentian Family....
Among the main clichés, popular sayings or phrases of common sense heard or read in Brazil are: "The friend is for those things," "The union is strength," "It is better to prevent than cure" and the classic "Brazil is the country of soccer." What stands out, in the...
With immense joy, the SSVP Council General International reports that we have just obtained a portrait of the founders Félix Clavé. The illustration is inside a book from 1851, written by the chronicler Maurice-Oscar Honoré de Bourzeis, from France....
The organizations that provide service in the area of Social Assistance will have to operate in 2019 with $12 billion less, if the Budget Proposal for the sector is approved. The measure involves the interruption of 17 thousand social assistance services, according...
‘Go to the poor,’ he said. St Vincent didn’t wait for the poor to come knocking. He was proactive in his charity. Sometimes people don’t want to ask for help. Sometimes people can’t ask for help, even though they need it. But St Vincent circumvented that, saying you...
A French course in Rio de Janeiro (RJ, Brazil) can cost up to R $ 900 [approximately 220 euros, 250 dollars]. The price keeps populations in regions that are most in need away of the dream of learning a new language. They do not live in Duque de Caxias, Belford Roxo...
The youth branch of the Vincentian Family, Vincentian Marian Youth, sends us its October bulletin.
"The Synod has been a good harvest and promises good wine." This sentence that Pope Francis pronounced on Sunday, October 28 at the Angelus, from the balcony of the Apostolic Palace and before thousands of pilgrims, summarizes the work, reflection and living for three...
The September/October issue of the Boletim Brasileiro magazine of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul (SSVP) in Brazil has published interviews with two members of the Commission for the Canonization of blessed Frederic Ozanam, the main founder of the Society of St....
