by John Freund, CM | May 7, 2010 | Disasters and Responses, News, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
Strong storms have done severe damage to the Sisters of Charity (Nazareth) ministry of Rajgir, India. More than ninety children call Rajgir home. The Congregation is grateful there were no injuries but the children were shaken up. Sisters from other areas of India are...
by John Freund, CM | May 4, 2010 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
It was a red-letter day in the history of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth at Metsimotlhabe, Botswana — the official opening of Pabalelong – Home of Love and Care — on the morning May 1. Around eight hundred people gathered.
by John Freund, CM | May 2, 2010 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change, Vincentian Family
It has taken seven years and more than $7 million dollars but the St Vincent de Paul Society’s Families Back on Track (FBOT) project on the Gold Coast has welcomed its first families. The project in Australia comprises 27 independent furnished units that will...
by John Freund, CM | May 1, 2010 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
Time Magazine has named her as one of the 100 Most Influential People 2010. The widow of the late Senator Edward Kennedy writes “Her leadership of the Catholic Health Association of the United States (CHA) has been defined by advocacy for the poor and an...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 29, 2010 | Collaboration, Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
According to the Huffington Post “Zafen, a new interest-free microloan initiative enabling lenders and donors to finance small and medium-sized Haitian businesses, may be just the ticket. That’s what four organizations that collaborated to launch...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 28, 2010 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
The annual cycle in Ann Arbor (or any place near a college) is completely predictable. In the fall, a horde of new students and faculty descend upon town to make their home here, and in the spring a horde of them head out of town to head to their next location in...
