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Help Create a Better Future by Signing the Civil Society Declaration
The Vincentian Family at the UN is working on the Civil Society Forum for the Commission on Social Development. One part of this is signing the CIVIL SOCIETY DECLARATION.
Job Opportunity: Director – USA, Office of Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation
The Daughters of Charity USA seek to hire a dynamic leader to coordinate their efforts to promote Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation.
Global Definitions of Homelessness
Establishing a common language and conceptual framework related to homelessness is an important step to addressing homelessness at the international level.
Hospice Care for the Homeless
On his Facebook page, Reinhard Kofler, CM tells a story of an innovative Vincentian approach to hospice care with the homeless. VINZIDORF (translated: “Saint Vincent’s village”) takes care of the homeless to the next level…Hospice care. In Graz (Austria) there is a...
Second part of VFCAP workshop in Spain
Vincentian Family Collaborative Action Program (VFCAP), Part 2 On March 25th and 26th, the second part of the Vincentian Family Collaborative Action Program (VFCAP) was held in the House of St. Vincent de Paul in Vallvidrera (Spain), addressed to the members of the...
AIC Participates in Various Regional and Global Forums
AIC recently concluded the 2017 international assembly in Chatillon, France. It was a time to consider the international participation of the many locally-based volunteers. Besides each individual member country within the AIC, there is a network of...
Vincent de Paul Society Working Toward Long-Term Solutions
The Society of St. Vincent de Paul is inaugurating a new neighborhood-based initiative to find long-term solutions to the challenges of being poor.
Not Just Getting By Anymore
A part of the Seton Center, Inc. in Emmitsburg, Maryland, Getting Ahead (GA) is an internationally recognized, 16-20 week program known for its interactive small group format. No one “teaches” you what you want to learn – you discover what’s best for you....
The Sacrament of the Bloody Palm
Jihad terror struck the Coptic Christian community in Egypt on Sunday, April 9, Palm Sunday. Two successive bomb attacks caused dozens of deaths and more than a hundred wounded persons in two Coptic churches of Alexandria and Tanta, in the north of the country. At the...
Participatory Planning Workshop in Monterrey (Mexico)
As part of the celebrations for the 400th anniversary of the Vincentian Charism, on Saturday, March 25, a workshop was held in the Parish of la Inmaculada Medalla Milagrosa of Monterrey. The workshop was directed by Dr. Ana, a member of AIC. Some 50 participants were...
You are Invited: Symposium of the Vincentian Family 2017
March 8, 2017 Dear Members of the Vincentian Family, May the grace and peace of Jesus be always with us! It is with great joy that I invite you to come to Rome on the weekend of October 12 – 15, 2017 for a Vincentian Family Symposium. Our Jubilee theme “Welcome the...
The Pope Video: Youth
Youth, which is part of "The Pope Video" series promoted by the Vatican, was released Tuesday, April 4. Young people have in their hands the challenge of building a more just future, a future of solidarity. Let us support them. Let’s pray with the Pope that our youth...