by John Freund, CM | Mar 19, 2009 | Justice and Peace, Vincentian Family
Blogs are a powerful advocacy tool. The internationally successful “Blog Action Day” was October 15 2008. The topic was poverty. We’re going to work towards an international “Vincentian Blog Action Day” on the relationship of educational...
by John Freund, CM | Mar 16, 2009 | Featured, Formation, Justice and Peace, Social, Vincentian Family
That is the opinion of Sr. Margaret Fitzpatrick, SC in this weeks installment in the Lent for Systemic Change series. She is a Sister of Charity and President of St. Thomas Aquinas College in New York. She points out how the book can be used in various settings as a...
by John Freund, CM | Mar 16, 2009 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change
A city in Brazil recruited local farmers to help do something U.S. cities have yet to do: end hunger. The story of Brazil’s fourth largest city Belo Horizonte, a city of 2.5 million people, once had 11 % of its population living in absolute poverty, and almost...
by John Freund, CM | Mar 15, 2009 | Justice and Peace, Vincentian Family
“Young Vinnies” from the University of Sydney ended up raising over $10,000 in what was possibly one of the largest cross-campus appeals ever conducted! You should all be extremely proud! If you are interested in getting involved with more volunteering,...
by John Freund, CM | Mar 15, 2009 | Collaboration, Featured, Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change
The keynote speakers at the North American Vincentian Family Gathering April 16-19, Allison Boisvert and Eddie Friel present insights into different but deeply inter-related dimensions of “systemic change†– the personal and structural. This week we feature...
by John Freund, CM | Mar 14, 2009 | Justice and Peace, Vincentian Family
Interreligious Dialogue: An Initiative of the Brothers of Charity Rome. This dialogue seeks to identify ways of interreligious cooperation between Muslims and Christians in India and all over the world to prevent and/or intervene in the growing tension and possible...
