“See the world from the perspective of the poor”

by John Freund, CM | Jun 12, 2008 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Vincentian Family

“When one is engaged in face-to-face charity and journeying with people the wider issues inevitably arise.” Speaking a meeting of the St. Vincent de Paul Society Bob McKeon who has lived in the inner city by choice for 30 years sees how one thing leads to...

Political Charity and Vincentian Formation

by John Freund, CM | Jun 8, 2008 | Collaboration, Justice and Peace, Missions inter gentes, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family

We have just received notice of an exciting new blog devoted to Political Charity and Vincentian Formation. The commission on Charism and Cultures and the Asia Pacific Regional Formators have been grappling with these concepts for over a decade and have now mounted a...

Legal empowerment – key pillar of the anti-poverty agenda.

by John Freund, CM | Jun 4, 2008 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses

As the food crisis grows, a report finds four billion people are excluded from the rule of law the UN Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor makes a global call to make legal empowerment a key pillar of the anti-poverty agenda. A blog on Asset-building, states...

Picturing Poverty – 100 cameras make the poor visible

by John Freund, CM | Jun 3, 2008 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses

Instead of explaining the desperate plight of the homeless at the Society of St. Vincent DePaul (Australia) 2008 appeal launch last week, the society gave disposable cameras to 100 marginalised people in New South Wales and asked them to take a snapshot of their life....

Homeless may be a casualty of World Youth Day

by John Freund, CM | Jun 2, 2008 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses

The Vincentian website in Australia leads us to story about the impact of World Youth Day on the homeless. The St Vincent de Paul Society is concerned over a decision to move meals for the homeless away from their usual distribution venues during World Youth Day....

Pope: Poor nations entitled to riches under their soil

by John Freund, CM | May 30, 2008 | Church, Justice and Peace

Benedict affirmed that countries cannot appropriate the wealth of poor nations hidden in the soil or underground. Addressing 9 new envoys  he also reviewed the situations in Tanzania and Uganda, Liberia, Chad and Bangladesh, Belarus and Guinea, Sri Lanka and Nigeria,...