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Articles from the Famvin News Archive
CEO’s sleeping out in Australian winter raise 4 million for homeless
The annual CEO Sleepout in the midst of Australia's winter is just shy of 4 million dollars according to its website. There are more than 100,000 Australians who sleep rough each night of the year. Just under half of these are women; a quarter of these are under the...
Sr. Elisabeth Charpy – Part II interview by Louise Sullivan
Sr. Louise Sullivan interviews Sr. Elisabeth Charpy, DC about the life and works of St. Louise de Marillac. This segment covers the foundation of the "little schools" of the Confraternities, that were established in seventeenth century France. They opened the door for...
SCN will offer scholarships to 200 girls and young women
The Sisters of Charity of Nazareth kick off campaign to provide 200 scholarships for girls and young women worldwide. Why girls and young women? According to the United Nations, approximately 40 million girls worldwide do not go to school because they cannot afford...
How large is the Vincentian Family?
I recently saw the following statistics...  The Congregation of the Mission numbers some 3,200 priests, brothers and deacons. They serve in 85 countries on all continents and are structured into  50 provinces and vice provinces, as well as four regions (which are...
In five years most Africans will have Smartphones
Feature phones are not the future. Of course that verges on tautology; of course everyone will have a smartphone, until everyone has something smaller and better and even more integrated into the fabric of our lives, like Google Glasses or cybernetic jawbone/retinal...
Daughters of Charity at the UN
Sister Germaine Price, representing the Company of the Daughters of Charity at the United Nations, reports on the international site of the Daughters of Charity  about the following activities in the UN in New York: Over the last two decades, there have been many...
CEO women in Vinnies Sleepout focus on female homelessness
According to the Canberra Times the female CEOs who are participating in Thursday's Vinnies CEO Sleepout are focusing on the hidden face of female homelessness. The latest figures show more than 60 per cent of people assisted by a homelessness service were women. And...
Surviving a month on fixed income – a game?
It's only a game! Or is it? Spent (http://playspent.org/ ) – PlaySpent is an online game that involves the player taking on the role of an unemployed, single parent who has to make it through the month on their last $1,000. The player does this by solving real-life...
Superior General – Training for Vincentian Spiritual Direction
The Superior General writes... May the grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ be forever in our hearts! I write to make you aware of a unique program on spiritual direction in the Vincentian tradition offered at All Hallows College in Dublin, Ireland. Sponsored by the...
Sister of Charity addresses Canadian Council of Religious
Issuing a call for intergenerational dialog,  Patricia Wittberg, Sister of Charity of Cincinnati, Ohio, and sociology professor at  Indiana Univeristy-Perdue University in Indianapolis delivered the keynote address for the Canadian Council of Religious Annual Meeting....
