Vincentian Family
Corona Virus Impacts UN’s Commission on Status of Women
Due to uncertainties posed by the Corona Virus, the United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women was scaled back to one day from nearly two weeks, with all NGO-related events cancelled.
Pope Meets With Catholic NGO Representatives In Rome
Catholic nongovernmental organization representatives met with Pope Francis, December 7, during the IV World Forum of Catholic-inspired NGOs in Rome.
Vincentian Prayer Images: Actions Speak Louder than Words!
Actions speak louder than words!
SSVP Alive and Well in Scotland
SVDP alive and well in Scotland - Take 2000 members in 300 Conferences (groups), 28 schools and 3 universities. That makes SSVP Scotland! These members, who range from 8 years old (in Mini Vinnnies groups in primary schools) to around 80 years old in parish...
Solving Poverty: A Revolutionary Approach
Systemic change has many names. This article "The Rise of Antipoverty Relational Work" uses terminology, "relational work", not familiar to most in the Vincentian Family, to describe nonprofits revolutionary change in approach to solutions to poverty. Whatever the...
Vincentian Perspectives on Evangelization
Father Celestino Fernández, CM presented Vincentian Perspectives on Evangelization in the context of his presentation "Vincentian Contributions to the New Evangelization". The full talk was presented to the participants gathered at the IV General Assembly of the...
Dogsledding Daughter of Charity fights for health care expansion
A recent segment on "The Rachel Maddow Show" features the testimony of an Alaskan Daughter of Charity named Sr. Mary Peter Diaz and how it helped defeat a Koch Brothers-led effort to deny health care expansion in the state. Diaz's testimony before the Alaskan state...
Traveling to Italy this summer?
Traveling to Italy this summer? If so, Padre Giuseppe Carulli of the Congregation of the Mission, Province of Naples is welcoming Vincentian Family pilgrims, families, groups, individuals to three of its strategically located houses in Italy - Naples...
Meet new President of the Vincentian Marian Youth
Meet the New President of the International Vincentian Marian Youth Yancarlos de Jesus Carrasco from the Dominican Republic. Congratulations! Photo courtesy of Fr. Astor Rodriquez' Facebook page. Follow events more closely in five languages
Serve: the Vincentian Family in Slovakia – Fight against Hunger
The Vincentian Family in Slovakia is mostly bound together thanks to the nationwide collection called Fight against Hunger which is realized via selling gingerbread hearts. The yield from the selling is meant to support the poor from Haiti, Honduras, Ukraine, Albania...
Connect and Learn: Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul – Vincentgiri, Mananthavady (SCV)
A third of the world's poor live in India, one of the most unequal societies in the world where poverty remains entrenched and widespread. Realizing the need in India the Congregation of The Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent De Paul started their mission in India,...
Oceania Asia – Prequel to VMY Assembly
The day before the opening of the General Assembly of the Vincentian Marian Youth the Oceana Asia group held its regional meeting. III Encounter of Asia and Oceania Salamanca 2015 The VMY held its III Encounter of Asia and Oceania in Salamanca, Spain. Because of the...