by John Freund, CM | Oct 1, 2010 | Uncategorized
Faith trumps factual knowledge of religion in America, according to the results of a survey conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. On average, people got about half the questions right. Though 86 percent of Americans believe in God or a higher...
by John Freund, CM | Sep 30, 2010 | Collaboration, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
51 Businesses Receive Interest-Free Loans For Expansion. Zafèn, a new online microfinance program targeting small- and medium-sized business in Haiti, has raised $140,000 from lenders and donors around the world in its first six months and funded more than 300...
by John Freund, CM | Sep 30, 2010 | Vincentian Family
The closing of the 350th …”celebration at the Manila Cathedral was truly impressive and awesome. 12Â bishops were present plus the Cardinal of Manila and the papal nuncio who delivered very beautiful and touching messages.”From Rolly Santos to the...
by John Freund, CM | Sep 29, 2010 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Their goal: Create a sense of community in a chaotic neighborhood overrun with drugs, prostitution and gangs. Their work mirrors, in some ways, the “new monasticism” movement, in which Christians move into urban or rural areas to work with the poor....
by John Freund, CM | Sep 29, 2010 | Systemic change
In an unprecedented action, Catholic Charities USA has drafted federal legislation that would take a new systemic change approach to ending poverty in America. Introduced as a modest national pilot program, it proposes to establish new model experiments in 10...
