by sjs | Nov 16, 2007 | Justice and Peace
The Third Committee of the U.N. General Assembly yesterday adopted a draft resolution calling for a moratorium on the use of the death penalty. Read the resolution and the voting sheet indicating how various countries voted on the resolution.
by sjs | Nov 2, 2007 | Justice and Peace
The president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace says that Christians are called to work for the abolition of “the death penalty, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment against the human person,†calling such...
by annaread | Nov 2, 2007 | Justice and Peace, Vincentian Family
At the first gala fundraiser of the Atlanta Georgia USA Saint Vincent de Paul Society, Atlanta Archbishop Wilton Gregory called the parable of Lazarus and the rich man “a story that should frighten all of us because we live in a community where there are...
by annaread | Nov 2, 2007 | Justice and Peace, Vincentian Family
That’s how the Philadephia Inquirer puts it, anyway, in their Sunday feature about Carmella Marie Christiano, S.C. About her turn as a whistle-blower almost 40 years ago she says, “I was too young and too dumb to be frightened, but actually, I was in the...
by John Freund, CM | Oct 28, 2007 | Featured, Justice and Peace, Systemic change
There is little awareness in the developed world of the vast network of child slaves, some 200,000 in Thailand alone. ‘To see girls enslaved in brothels, it hurts,’ says Sompop Jantraka. ‘If you can protect one child, you protect future...
by annaread | Oct 25, 2007 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Previously famvin.org published a link to a participant’s overview of the Vincentian Center for Church and Society’s conference on poverty. Now a complete digest of the day includes summaries of the keynote address by John J. Coughlin, O.F.M., J.D., J.C.D....
