by annaread | Nov 12, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The Society of St Vincent de Paul in Lane County, Oregon USA has received $1.5 million to build 27 housing units for low-income and elderly people. Read the story.
by annaread | Nov 12, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
A reflection on last week’s tragic news: Like many concerned Filipinos, I was emotionally overwhelmed and driven to tears by the suicide of Marianet Amper. I could not fathom how and why a 12-year-old girl, whose life as a conscious and thinking human being was...
by annaread | Nov 12, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
On Monday the board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria committed more than $1.1 billion US to 73 projects. More than two-thirds of these funds are earmarked for projects in Africa. Read more.
by John Freund, CM | Nov 10, 2007 | Evangelization, Featured, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
The Vincentian Family figured prominently in the awarding of over one millions dollars for systemic change projects. On November 8, 2007 Brother Constant Goetschalckx FC of the Brothers of Charity, an international community with deep roots in the Vincentian traditon...
by John Freund, CM | Nov 10, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
The 12th annual Newman C. Eberhardt, C.M. Lecture at Saint John’s Seminary in California is titled “Disfigurement and Reconfiguration: The Contribution of Jean Vanier and L’Arche to a Renewed Social Order”. The series, named in honor of Newman...
by John Freund, CM | Nov 10, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
A young woman joined the Vincentian Lay Missionaries for service Jimma, Ethiopia. Her month of service included teaching English, as she expected. But “the Daughters of Charity main mission was providing a better life for families living in two leper...
