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Immediate Aid for Haiti
by Vincentian Family Office | August 17, 2021 | News, Society of St. Vincent de Paul | 0 Comments
The SSVP, together with the Daughters of Charity and the entire Vincentian Family, are supporting their neighbours in Haiti from the outset with aid for basic needs.
DePaul University Vincentians in Action: Service Immersions
Hidilyn Díaz Breaks Weightlifting World Record and Shows Two Medals: Gold and Miraculous Medals
by Vincentian Family Office | August 16, 2021 | News | 1 Comment
Just one house to change a life
by Vincentian Homeless Alliance | August 15, 2021 | News | 0 Comments
The FHA was launched with the goal of ending homelessness, one house at a time. That’s what moved Ana María Escaño in Malitbog (Southern Leyte) in the Philippines, to launch the “Just One House” project.
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Measurement of Homelessness
by Reese Hagy, Institute of Global Homelessness | Apr 7, 2022 | News, Vincentian Family at the U.N.
Is homelessness increasing or decreasing? Are certain subgroups overrepresented in the population of people experiencing homelessness in a particular community?
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Transforming lives in Brazil
by Cleonice Regina Claudino and Sr. Vanilza Maria Bueno | Apr 4, 2022 | Daughters of Charity, News
Under the subsidy of our Mother House, and aid from the Province of Curitiba and the active participation of the Sisters from five local communities, we saw an opportunity to go beyond the emergency care of the people we accompany, and invest in new training programs for them.
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Improving Health and Saving Lives: Campaign for a Tuberculosis free India
by Sisters of Charity of Nazareth | Apr 3, 2022 | News
A much-loved Sister in India has spent years helping to restore health to the very ill and create awareness around a prevalent disease.
Escaping Adversity, Student Finds a “Second Home”
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Jan 21, 2018 | News
Though Mary Tarawally’s graduation from St. John’s University is months away, she has already compiled a résumé of success stretching from the Staten Island campus to the United Nations. “St. John’s mission struck a chord from the start,” said the student leader and...
New Social Entrepreneurship Program to Connect Students and Formerly Homeless Adults
by Sandra Guillory, Depaul USA | Jan 20, 2018 | News
Depaul USA, a national homeless services organization, and students at William Penn Charter School, an independent school in the East Falls neighborhood, announce an exciting new project to produce local, vegan soaps. The Rays of Hope project is staffed by residents...
Pope Francis: Homily at Mass on World Day of Migrants and Refugees [full text]
by Tomasz Zieliński | Jan 20, 2018 | Formation, News, Pope, Reflections
On Sunday, January 14, 2018 the Church observed 104th World Day of Migrants and Refugees. Pope Francis celebrated Eucharist in St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican for them. Some two-thousand Filipinos, 1.200 Ukrainians, 800 Romanians, 650 Hindus and other 45 nations were...
The “Charity” of Turin at the Vincentian Symposium in Rome
by Denise El-Khoury | Jan 19, 2018 | News
Three months ago, we went to Rome to participate in the International Symposium of the Vincentian Family. It was the beginning of the realization of a dream that was born on the street, that lived on the street and which continues to live on the street. A dream, a...
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
by Teresa Kotturan, SCN | Jan 18, 2018 | News, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family at the U.N.
Promotion of human rights was not a focus point for the representatives of the countries who gathered in 1945 in San Francisco to found the United Nations. But the horrors and brutality of the Second World War had convinced them of the need to include protection of...
Colorado Vincentian Volunteers on the March
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Jan 17, 2018 | News, Other Branch News
Once again, CVV was humbled to participate the Denver's Marade (nope, that's not a typo!) and celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. What a powerful time to come together as a Denver community committed to justice for all. There is still work to be done!...
Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Vincentian Family 2018
by Javier F. Chento | Jan 16, 2018 | News, Vincentian Family
On Tuesday, January 16, the meeting of the Executive Committee of the Vincentian Family began. The meeting is taking place in Philadelphia (United States) at the headquarters of the Vincentian Family Office, located on the grounds of St. Vincent Seminary in...
400 years of the Vincentian Charism and the Rich Heritage of the Family
by Vincentian Family Office | Jan 15, 2018 | News, Vincentian Family
With almost 10,000 members in England and Wales, the St. Vincent de Paul Society (SVP) is a worldwide organization with more than 800,000 members in 151 countries. It is also part of the wider Vincentian Family of 225 lay and religious associations, all of which...
SSVP President General visits United States of America this January
by Javier F. Chento | Jan 13, 2018 | News, Society of St. Vincent de Paul
Between January 14 and 20, 2018, our brother Renato Lima de Oliveira, 16th President General of SSVP, will be traveling through the United States to fulfil an extensive institutional agenda, visiting Conferences, special works and Councils. On days 14 and 15, Renato...