by Beth | Oct 15, 2005 | Disasters and Responses, News
It’s Not Fair: Disasters in Poor Countries – A look at why diasters hit the poor the hardest. • About 95 percent of deaths caused by disasters occur in poor countries. A disaster of similar nature and size causes more deaths in poor countries than in rich ones....
by Beth | Oct 14, 2005 | Vincentian Family
SYDNEY, October 9, 2005 (vinnies.org.au): John O’Neill, NSW/ACT State president of the St Vincent de Paul Society, writes for The Catholic Weekly – There are many people among us that, due to their crisis situation, do not have the same opportunities to enjoy...
by Beth | Oct 13, 2005 | Uncategorized
Albany, New York October 11, 2005 – The Daughters of Charity Archives of the Northeast Province was awarded a Documentary Heritage Program grant by the New York State Archives to study the Daughters’ role in the history of Catholic education in New York State. The...
by Beth | Oct 13, 2005 | Vincentian Family
During his homily, Fr. David O’Connell, CM said that 65 percent of the world’s population is younger than 25. Some of the people these youths look up to “have compromised the most important things in life,” he said, such as human life and the...
by Beth | Oct 11, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
St. John’s Bread and Life will both be featured and supported on this year’s Hungerthon broadcast. As you may know Hungerthon joins together WHY, radio stations, corporations, and individual donors to fight the hunger and poverty problem that affects 37 million...
