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Articles from the Famvin News Archive
Zafèn Haitian Microfinance Effort Nears $150k in First Six Months;
51 Businesses Receive Interest-Free Loans For Expansion. Zafèn, a new online microfinance program targeting small- and medium-sized business in Haiti, has raised $140,000 from lenders and donors around the world in its first six months and funded more than 300...
350TH Closing cermonies in Manila
The closing of the 350th ..."celebration at the Manila Cathedral was truly impressive and awesome. 12Â bishops were present plus the Cardinal of Manila and the papal nuncio who delivered very beautiful and touching messages."From Rolly Santos to the Superior...
Young Christians Seek Intentional Community Among Poor
Their goal: Create a sense of community in a chaotic neighborhood overrun with drugs, prostitution and gangs. Their work mirrors, in some ways, the “new monasticism” movement, in which Christians move into urban or rural areas to work with the poor. […]
Catholic Charities USA proposes major legislation to end poverty
In an unprecedented action, Catholic Charities USA has drafted federal legislation that would take a new systemic change approach to ending poverty in America. Introduced as a modest national pilot program, it proposes to establish new model experiments in 10...
Vincent de Paul Seen as a Page From the Gospel
(Zenit).- The saint celebrated in today's liturgy and his spiritual counterpart were "pages of the Gospel lived with intensity," according to the retired prefect of the Vatican's congregation for saints' causes. This was the description used Friday by Cardinal José...
SVDP (Australia) protests child imprisonment
There are still 645 children detained in prisons of Australia and Christmas Island, according to Dr John Falzon, CEO of the National Council of St Vincent de Paul Society. Speaking in Sydney, he called for the Federal Government to fulfill a commitment it made in 2008 and end child detention.
Closing of the 350th Anniversary Year in Rome
The Jubilee Year of 350th Anniversary of death of St. Vincent de Paul and St. Louise de Marillac came to an end this weekend.  Three days of celebrations prepared by Vincentian Family took place in Rome from Friday, September 24 to Sunday, September 26.The following...
Benedict – Vincent knew how to organize
In his Angelus message today, as part of his reflection on service to others, the Pope recalled that Monday is the feast of St. Vincent de Paul, a priest whom he said 350 years ago in France knew how to organize stable forms of service to marginalized people http://xrl.in/6f5d
Elizabeth Ann Seton Medal
The College of Mount Saint Vincent gave Philippine President Benigno Aquino IIIÂ the Elizabeth Seton Medal His mother and Mount Saint Vincent alumna, the late President Corazon Aquino, also received the medal in 1984. Read more for other awards honoring mother...
Another Vincentian Family poet publishes
Sister Dolores Coleman, D.C. has just published her second volume of Poetry, Sparrow Songs. All proceeds are donated to the Ministry for the Deaf, in which she served for many years. It can be purchased on Amazon.com. Click Read More for Fr. Robert Maloney’s letter to Vincentian artists.
