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The process of beatification of Janez Strasek, CM
The process of beatification of Janez STRASEK, CM began in Zagreb on September 20, 2021.
Pope Francis congratulates Sister Carol Keehan as she receives Spirit of Francis Award
Pope Francis congratulated Sister Carol Keehan, D.C., in a message shared at Catholic Extension’s first-ever Spirit of Francis event held in Washington, D.C.
Accompanying the Journey of a Refugee – Seville Conference, June 2022
The Vincentian Family Homeless Alliance (FHA) is inviting all Vincentians to join us in accompanying refugees, internally displaced people and human trafficking victims in their journey to a safe place.
Register to Participate in the Film Festival “Finding Vince 400”!
Everyone is cordially invited to sign up to attend the "Finding Vince 400" Film Festival! We especially address all those who wish to participate in this important initiative of the Vincentian Family, which was presented in Rome, in 2017, during the Symposium for the...
Response to the Ukraine Conflict and Displacement Crisis
Depaul Ukraine purchased a building in Odessa which comprises both Depaul’s daycentre for any homeless people in the city, and supported accommodation specifically for 25 internally displaced people (IDPs). This is an improvement on other shelters for homeless IDPs in...
Birth of the New Province “San Vincenzo – Italia”
A new Province of the Daughters of Charity, “San Vincenzo – Italia” (2.0), was recently established on Wednesday, July 18, 2018 from the unification of two Provinces of north-central Italy and southern Italy. As the Superior General said during the Eucharistic...
“Finding Vince 400” arrives at the Venice Film Festival
On Sunday, September 2, "Finding Vince 400," the international film festival dedicated to Saint Vincent de Paul and inspired by the theme of the globalization of charity, will be presented at the International Film Festival of the Venice Biennale, on the Lido, from...
International Day of Indigenous Peoples
The 5000 indigenous peoples scattered throughout the earth (90 countries), with their thousand-year-old cultures and languages (7000), are a permanent memory to humanity that nature is still waiting, it cries out, for our ecological conversion. This is the...
Vincentian in Paris Leads Effort to Resettle Migrants Fleeing Danger
PARIS (CNS) -- As Europe continues to struggle with migrant and refugee arrivals, Catholics in the French capital are heeding Pope Francis' call to come to their aid by providing practical and spiritual help to the newcomers. A key figure coordinating Catholic aid is...
“What is Happening with Immigrant Reception Policies is Intolerable” (SSVP Italy)
"There is still a beautiful Italy, ready to welcome, to integrate, to give work, to help these people, be they refugees, asylum seekers or simply 'economic migrants.' An Italy that goes on thanks to their work, will, sacrifice. They are men and women like us,...
Fr. Pedro Opeka, CM, Received Honorable Mention from the Argentine Senate
At the beginning of July, Father Pedro Opeka, CM, the most well-known Vincentian Father in the world, was honored by the political authorities of Argentina, from President Mauricio Macri (who received him at the Casa Rosada on July 5), even by the Senate of that...
Saint Vincent de Paul Young Adult Center
The St. Vincent de Paul Young Adult Center, located in the Germantown section of Philadelphia (USA), provides unique educational service trips following the examples of St. Vincent de Paul and St. Louise de Marillac. Their aim is to allow students to have an...