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Articles from the Famvin News Archive
Lenten prayer for Vincentians
VinFormation offers a Lenten Prayer for Vincentians based on Fr. Gregory Gay’s 2011 Lenten letter. Reflections: Can I put the face of someone I encountered with each line of this prayer? How did Jesus relate to people in each of these categories? Do I relate to them...
Zafen receives $30,000 challenge grant!
Double your money! Hurry, get online today! The scholarships are going very fast! Zafen has just announced a dollar for dollar match for 2 schools run by the CMs in Thomazeau, Haiti. In order to grant access to and enhance the quality of education, each donation will...
Benedict will make history with a TV audience Q&A
According to RomeReports TV on Good Friday, April 22, the pope will make history by appearing on television to answer questions about Jesus. This will be the first time that a pope has granted a televised interview.
Sisters of Charity reach out to Muslims in Nepal
Sisters of Charity of Nazareth are working with an overlooked minority community of Muslims in Surkhet, Nepal community has been overlooked by many. Rosita Kavilpurayidathil, SCN, and her staff have setup meetings and now administer her ministry to this community. In...
Vincent and the Eucharist
See a three minute YouTube trailer focusing how on the celebration of the Eucharist influences our Church and the Society of St. Vincent de Paul celebrate holidays and special occasions with the poor. Program 10 re-airs on CLTV (COX 15, Baton Rouge, LA) Sunday, March...
Lent – Fasting vs. starving
The drumbeat of early warnings of historically high food prices leaning to a major global crisis rooted might help put some perspective on the Lenten call for prayer, fasting and almsgiving. Food price spikes are more than a blip on the Chicago Board of Trade. The...
Lent – challenge to think differently
"Let us focus especially on our relationship with the poor" writes Fr. Gregory Gay in his Lenten letter. (Lent-2011-ENG) If "metanonia" literally means "change your way of thinking", then Lent is the perfect time for us to look at systemic change in our own lives and...
Click-activism will not end homelessness
It is so easy. Click, click. Point. Tag. Retweet. "Click-activism"! Just a few motions with my index finger and I am changing the world.Press that “like” button. Join that Facebook group. In a fraction of a second, I am saving the environment from the industrial...
Putting poverty into perspective
Poverty statistics in a one minute video presentation which puts poverty in the developed world into perspective. This video offers a simplified and visually engaging way to think about global poverty as the distance between the 231 peope who live in "Povertyville"...
International SVDP encourages Councils to have their own Web Sites
PARIS: Under the heading of "Every Council on Internet", the website of the General Council of the St Vincent de Paul Society (Link no longer active) has a message indicating that the Comission for International Communications is encouraging each Council of the...
