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Articles from the Famvin News Archive
DePaul UK gains from police property auction
Cheques for £500 were given to Depaul UK in The Grove, the country’s largest youth homeless charity, and House of Mercy in Edwin Street, which provides a day centre for homeless people or those with inadequate accommodation. The money came from the Kent Police...
Official video for WYD Rio de Janiero
Although still more than a year away there is already an official site for World Youth Day in Rio deJaniero. WYDRio launched February 1 The excitement over WYDRio is growing. The national committee for WYD 2013 announced the logo will be revealed to the world on...
Vincentian Family collaborations around the globe
The International SVDP site lists its collaborations with the Vincentian Family by continent. They hope this compilation will encourage others to seek opportunities for collaboration. They also ask the list be updated. (See below for a list of collaboration in...
Putting the Saint Back Into Valentine’s Day
Losing your head, literally, to help couples celebrate their love! Beheading is the price Valentine paid many centuries ago. According to legend, he was a priest in Rome during the reign of Emperor Claudius II and his title as the champion of romantic love came as a...
What was Elizabeth Seton’s school like?
As we celebrate Catholic School Week January 29 to February 4 in the United States, it is interesting to go back in time and wonder, “What exactly was Saint Elizabeth Seton’s first school like? How was it organized? What textbooks were used? What about the discipline?...
Sr. Carol Keehan DC “Something has to be fixed”
Sr. Carol Keehan, DC speaking on behalf of the Catholic Health Association has released an updated statement on the recent HHS position on a narrow religious exemption for Catholic institutional employers. CHA and its members were profoundly disappointed to learn that...
Blessed Giuseppina Nicoli DC – Special concern for young women
Sr Giuseppina (1863-1924) founded the "Young Women of Charity" in 1917, and opened with them in the poor, overpopulated suburb of Marina del Poetto a facility for the care of children afflicted with rickets and scrofulosis, a form of tuberculosis. Other apostolic...
The Louise we did not know
Louise was a mystic... and that was what led her to serve the poor. In a well documented study "Saint Louise de Marillac, a mystic", Benito Martínez Betanzos, CM, comes to the conclusion that "Mysticism led Louise de Marillac to serve the poor." "Mysticism, if it is...
Daybreak: A project of DePaul USA
This video was created by the youth committee of the Capital Campaign for Daybreak, a project of Depaul USA, in order to raise awareness about homelessness in Bibb County. Depaul USA's mission is to offer homeless and disadvantaged people the opportunity to fulfill...
A Victory for Domestic Workers
The NGO of Congregation of the Mission and Daughters of Charity reports on a victory for domestic workers. Domestic workers, people who work in other people’s homes in order to support themselves and their families, are extremely vulnerable because they work away from...
