Society of St. Vincent de Paul

Youth in the SSVP: a Future that is Already Present

Among the main clichés, popular sayings or phrases of common sense heard or read in Brazil are: "The friend is for those things," "The union is strength," "It is better to prevent than cure" and the classic "Brazil is the country of soccer." What stands out, in the...

St. Vincent de Paul Society Sharing Their Stories

See the stories shared by Vincentians over the course of the St. Vincent de Paul Society’s U.S. National Assemblies.

Discovered Portrait of One of the Founders of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul

With immense joy, the SSVP Council General International reports that we have just obtained a portrait of the founders Félix Clavé. The illustration is inside a book from 1851, written by the chronicler Maurice-Oscar Honoré de Bourzeis, from France....

SSVP in Brazil Condemns $12 Billion Cut for Social Assistance

The organizations that provide service in the area of ​​Social Assistance will have to operate in 2019 with $12 billion less, if the Budget Proposal for the sector is approved. The measure involves the interruption of 17 thousand social assistance services, according...