by John Freund, CM | Jan 13, 2010 | Disasters and Responses, News, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
National President of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul USA Joseph D. Flannigan has issued a call to the 120,000 volunteer members of the Society in the United States, as well as to the general public, to help provide assistance for the victims of the terrible Haiti...
by John Freund, CM | Jan 13, 2010 | Disasters and Responses, News, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
Ascension Health in St. Louis, the nation’s largest Catholic health system, is asking its 113,000 employees to make donations to Seton Institute, Ascension’s international arm. “One hundred percent of donations will go directly to sponsors there in Haiti for their...
by John Freund, CM | Jan 13, 2010 | Collaboration, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
The Bishop of Port au Prince, Msgr. Joseph Miot, aged 63, was killed in the quake as well as the head of the UN Mission, Hedi Annabi.
by John Freund, CM | Jan 13, 2010 | Disasters and Responses, News, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
Fr. Faustino Burgos C.M., former visitor of Puerto Rico (the current visitor, Fr. Tulio Cordero, is in Rome and has departed today for Santo Domingo), called the Superior General to give the following news about the earthquake this morning in Haiti: The provincial...
by John Freund, CM | Jan 12, 2010 | Disasters and Responses, News, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
According to ABC News reporting at 5:30 Tuesday EST… “The earthquake had a preliminary magnitude of 7.0 and was centered about 14 miles (22 kilometers) west from the capital of Port-au-Prince, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. An Associated Press...
by John Freund, CM | Nov 4, 2009 | Collaboration, Justice and Peace, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
An Initiative of the Worldwide Vincentian Family, DePaul University, the Haitian Diaspora and Fonkoze, the project, which will reach out to the poorest of the poor, is in continuity with the worldwide Vincentian Family’s recent focus on systemic change. As part of the...
