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As usual at this time, the Superior General of the Congregation of the Mission and the Daughters of Charity have sent a reflection to the entire Vincentian Family on the occasion of the feast of Saint Vincent de Paul on September 27: Rome, 20 September 2017 To all the...
This text that follows is a transcript of a lecture given by Mons. Santiago Agrelo, Franciscan missionary and archbishop of Tangier, at the opening ceremony of the 2015-2016 course in "Cristianisme i Justícia" (Barcelona). Monsignor speaks of frontiers, in particular...
As we all know, ISIS terrorists attacked again, this time in Barcelona, only a few days ago, leaving behind 15 dead and dozens injured in a new cowardly and vile massacre. The people's response was immediate, and a great wave of solidarity and affection flooded the...
Today, August 22, 2017, marks the 20th anniversary of the beatification of Frederic Ozanam. On this occasion, we have retrieved an article that the former international president of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Mr. Amin A. de Tarrazi, wrote a few weeks after...
August 13, 2017. In the provincial house of Seville our journey towards the peripheries comes to an end. They have been long and intense days, full of emotions, tears and suffering, but also of joy and hope. From the day we left our homes until we return to them an...
Very early in the morning, we said goodbye to the boys and girls in Alhucemas. We barely knew how to say goodbye, we were lost, but even in the farewell God gave us strength, we noticed His presence giving us impetus... We left behind a blessed...
Systemic Change strives to empower the needy, giving them voice in the necessary change of structures. Knowing their needs and their opinions, and having their contributions, are part of the programming of any initiative we put in place to improve their situation. We...
We present a video where two people show us their experience and their efforts to improve the social reality and the situations of poverty that we suffer in the world: one, working in the neighborhood of Brooklyn; the other at the United Nations. We may sometimes...
Time flies, faster than we would like, and in Alhucemas we are aware that we have only a day and a half left. We begin to review every day, to pray about our experience, to ask ourselves if it will please God and what fruit it will give. We doubt whether we gave...
It dawns in Nador and, like every morning, we are fortunate to share the Eucharist with the religious in the area. Today we have to go to Dar-Hairia, where the needs are varied and the hands few to help: besides accompanying the nurses, there are other logistical...
