by annaread | Nov 2, 2007 | Evangelization, News
“All life that God gave,” says Daughter of Charity Katerina Fuchs, “must be respected.” In Jerusalem, the Daughters run a facility that provides full-time care for 59 severely disabled children, two-thirds of whom are Arab. Among the workers...
by annaread | Nov 2, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
In October of each year, an event promoted by the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness asks communities to take a look at how better to connect themselves to the homeless in their midst. Read about the first ever Project Homeless Connect in Humboldt County,...
by annaread | Nov 2, 2007 | Justice and Peace, Vincentian Family
At the first gala fundraiser of the Atlanta Georgia USA Saint Vincent de Paul Society, Atlanta Archbishop Wilton Gregory called the parable of Lazarus and the rich man “a story that should frighten all of us because we live in a community where there are...
by annaread | Nov 2, 2007 | Justice and Peace, Vincentian Family
That’s how the Philadephia Inquirer puts it, anyway, in their Sunday feature about Carmella Marie Christiano, S.C. About her turn as a whistle-blower almost 40 years ago she says, “I was too young and too dumb to be frightened, but actually, I was in the...
by annaread | Oct 31, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Malaria is back in parts of Perú. Read about probable causes. Repression of human rights and rampant infectious disease go together in Burma. See UC Berkeley’s report. In science this week, a discovery that having blood type “O” tends to...
