From Slave to Saint – Josephine Bakhita

Bakhita is the first person ever from Sudan to be canonized, or even beatified. She is the first African to be canonized since the early centuries of Christianity, when several North Africans (one of the cores of Christianity before it turned Muslim) were declared...

CM Wants To Be Last Filipino Out of Beirut

Fr. Agustin “Gestie” Advincula, CM was the voice heard over the airwaves, urging government action on the plight of Filipinos trapped in the war zone. His was also the soothing voice providing reassurance to anxious mothers, spouses and children of the country’s...

CM's Leaving Parish After 170 Years

Vincentian priests and brothers have had a presence in Cape Girardeau since the parish was founded in 1836. Two years before that, the Rev. John Timon rode from Perryville to Cape Girardeau on horseback to hold Mass. Two years after the first Vincentian priest arrived...

SVDP in County Mayo, Ireland

For more than 26 years Martin Waters has made the misery of others his daily concern. As president of the Castlebar conference of St Vincent de Paul, his has been one of the compassionate faces of a caring organisation reaching out to hundreds of people on their...
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