by John Freund, CM | Oct 3, 2011 | Vincentian Family
Fonkoze, Zafen’s partner in Haiti,  released its 2010 Social Performance Report (pdf), Keeping Our Clients on the Staircase Out of Poverty, an annual self-assessment of Haiti’s leading microfinance institution’s progress toward its social mission. The report...
by John Freund, CM | Oct 2, 2011 | Vincentian Family
DePaul University students have the unique opportunity to learn about St. Vincent de Paul while in Paris and surrounding area March 16-25, 2012. Highlights include: • In Paris—Vincentian Motherhouse, Old SaintLazare, Ste. Marguerite and Les Invalides plus time to...
by John Freund, CM | Oct 2, 2011 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
A new website and mobile app looks at your purchases and determines the amount of forced labor that’s gone into everything you own. The number may surprise you. It’s not easy to be a socially responsible consumer. Even if you buy mostly local products and...
by John Freund, CM | Oct 1, 2011 | Justice and Peace
September 24, 2011 – 21,000 children die every day around the world. That is equivalent to: 1 child dying every 4 seconds 14 children dying every minute A 2011 Libya conflict-scale death toll every day A 2010 Haiti earthquake occurring every 10 days A 2004 Asian...
by John Freund, CM | Oct 1, 2011 | Justice and Peace
The following appeal, published by Catholic Moral Theology, calling for the abolition of the death penalty in the USA has already been signed by 160 leading Catholic academics: (Breaking News… Vatican Clarification on Death Penalty) There were two...
