Based on a zoom interview with Fr. Geowen Porcincula CM, former team leader of Vincent Helps at its institution and present Vincentian Foundation Assistant Executive Director.
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France, Italy and Botswana join the “13 Houses” Campaign!
Botswana, France and Italy have joined the “13 Houses” Campaign with three very different projects.
Sisters offer hospice care to patients in Kenya
The hospice, on a slight hill between a church and the Holy Cross Medical Clinic, has over the years provided palliative care to 568 terminally ill patients.
Another Volume of “Vincentian Heritage” is Available for Download
The most recent issue of Vincentian Heritage is available for downloading both Mobi and PDF formats. Follow this link to their main page or click the image below where the download can be found by scrolling down. Vincentian Heritage is a peer-reviewed journal...
The Commodification of Housing
“Housing has lost its social function and is seen instead as a vehicle for wealth and asset growth.” [Leilani Farha, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing] We’re becoming all too familiar with these scenarios: families forced out of cities by upward spiraling...
Salt Lake City, Utah: Celebrating 400 Years of the Vincentian Charism
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH: USA — Feeding the hungry, teaching marketable skills to those who need employment, offering utility payments for someone who has lost a job – all of these are undertaken by local lay men and women and religious women who have the Vincentian...
Meeting of the National Council of the Vincentian Family in Egypt
On Friday, August 4, 2017, the National Council of the Vincentian Family in Egypt held its fourth meeting at the convent of the sisters of St. Jean Antide in Sakakini Square, Cairo. The attendees were: Father Milad Sedqi Zakhari CM [Coordinator of the National...
Daughters Aim to Fill Gap Left by Martyrs of Charity in Mississippi, USA
The sun was rising on an early March morning in 2016, and Rosemarie Merrill was in the driveway, getting ready to leave for the long trek from Durant, Mississippi, to her home near Boston. She had been visiting her sister, Sr. Paula Merrill, a member of the Sisters of...
Looking at the United States from the Outside • A Call to Action
The world watches the response of the United States to the worldwide crisis of refugees. What's going on on your country? Here's a piece from SSVP Canada. As one of my duties as chair of our national social justice committee, I take part in monthly conference calls...
@NiagaraUniv to Host Symposium on Resettlement
On Sept. 8-9, 2017, the New York Folklore Society, a statewide nonprofit arts organization supporting folklife and traditional arts, and the Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University, will host a roundtable discussion and symposium to explore challenges in the...
Depaul Young People’s Slovak Adventure
For almost 18 months a group of fantastic Depaul young men and women worked together, alongside Depaul UK’s ‘Your Chance’ staff in the North West, to plan, fundraise and finally travel to Slovakia to volunteer at Depaul Slovakia’s St Vincent's Night Shelter. Eight...
World Water Week: In pursuit of SDG 6
In pursuit of Strategic Development Goal 6: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. That was World Water week 2017 in Stockholm, Sweden. World Water Week 2017 Overview More than half of households worldwide have access to clean...
