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Articles from the Famvin News Archive
Millenium Development Goals – Good News, Bad News
Millenium Development Goals poverty targets look achievable, but hunger remainsWhile the world is on track to end extreme poverty by 2015 in accordance with the Millennium Development Goals, progress is lagging on meeting the parallel goal of eradicating hunger. The...
Hilton Hotels and SVDP?
A partnership between a Hilton Hotel in Australia and the SVDP might well be something others could explore. The CM website in Australia points to a story about how the St Vincent de Paul Society and the Sydney Hilton  have entered into a three-year partnership worth...
Musings on Major Donor Giving, Philanthropy, Non-Profits and Life
The website "Passionate Giving | Musings on Major Donor Giving, Philanthropy, Non-Profits and Life" offers a series of reflections of interest to all of us who wonder how to support the ministries we engage in. See below for the links to the reflections thus far....
US Bishops Launch Virtual Youth Day Pilgrimage
First-Ever Virtual Pilgrimage to World Youth Day to Assist Those ‘Staying Home’ Individuals can make a virtual pilgrimage to World Youth Day (WYD) using a social media tool developed by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Communications...
Sisters lead the way in anti-trafficking fight
When it came to galley slaves Vincent led the way. Today women religious are particularly active in raising visibility to the sex slave trade that is much more prevalent than most realize. The National Catholic Reporter has a fine overview of the issues and what women...
Junior Ladies of Charity help in New Orleans
The Junior Ladies of Charity from St. Vincent/Guardian Angel, St. Louis, just returned from a trip to New Orleans where they helped two families refurbish their homes. The girls scraped and painted two houses and added the finishing touches that made the houses home...
FAMVIN Australia Social Justice Day
FamVin Australia celebrated Social Justice Day by exploring the theme  Act Justly – Addressing injustice in modern Australia. The day  focused on some of the most marginalised groups in our Australian community. The objective for the day was to inform the...
International President of the SVDP visits 5 countries
From the international site of the SVDP...The National Council of France held its Congress in Marseille with attendance of over 700 Vincentians. The President General, Dr. Michael Thio and his wife, Rosalind, and accompanied by Jean Tirado, Executive Director(CGI),...
Contrasting approaches to social change – CM and SVDP
Frederic Ozanam and Fr. Etienne, sometimes referred to as the second founder of the Congregation, took quite contrasting views toward social change and renewal. Fr.Jaime Correra CM writes that with regard to social change "(one has)Â the painful impression that the...
Blogging Converts, Online Activists, and Bishops Who Tweet
We’re in the middle of the biggest communication shift since the advent of the printing press. Facebook has over 500 million users. Two billion YouTube videos are watched every day. And last year alone, Americans sent 1.8 trillion text messages. What does this all...
