by John Freund, CM | Apr 4, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
ROME (AFP) – Despite projections of a bumper grain crop this year, 33 countries will not have enough food, with Iraq and Zimbabwe among the hardest hit, the UN food agency said Tuesday. Countries with “widespread lack of access to food” include...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 4, 2007 | Disasters and Responses, News, Vincentian Family
Father Frank Vargas, the Superior of the International Mission in the Solomon Islands, wrote to Father Greg yesterday. This is what he said: You may have seen on TV that Solomon Islands was hit by a tsunami. Thank God, all the confreres in the Guadalcanal Island are...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 2, 2007 | Evangelization, Justice and Peace, News, Vincentian Family
When typhoon REMING (international code name DURIAN) came upon the people at the foothills of the beautiful and majestic Mayon Volcano in the middle eastern part of the Philippines last November 29, 2006, life literally stopped and “darkness came upon the earth.â€...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 1, 2007 | Justice and Peace
NEW DELHI, India, APRIL 1, 2007 (Zenit.org).- The Indian bishops’ conference recalled Church teaching on human dignity, in the face of statistics revealing that 2.3 million Indians, mostly women, have been trafficked in the last 10 years. Statistics released by...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 1, 2007 | News
When we pray, we “connect†with God; we become aware of God’s presence within us. One spiritual writer comments that we can think of our own heart as God’s “family room within usâ€. What a beautiful image of a place where we can just relax with God!...
