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DREAM team meets in Paris January 18-22, 2010
Twenty Daughters of Charity from 6 African countries, the team of DREAM specialists from the Sant’ Egidio Community, two representatives of IPS (International Project Services of the Daughters of Charity) and Father Robert Maloney, coordinator of the partnership of...
House of Charity in New Orleans
What do 27 air mattresses, 19 young adults, 11 Sisters/Daughters of Charity, five and one-half bathrooms, 15 lbs of mashed potatoes, one parish food bank and clothing closet and three families moving back home have in common?
Sr. Evelyne Franc reflects on vivist to Haiti
"With God’s blessing, for five days we had the privilege, to share the present reality of life with our Sisters of Haiti, in the heart of a people profoundly marked by suffering. Some reflections and video on the visit of Sr. Evelyne Franc, Superioress General of the...
Adamson University urges “Systemic Change”
Adamson University President Fr. Gregg Banaga has urged all Vincentian missionaries and their collaborators across the country to hold a similar forum seminar aimed at promoting the “Systemic Change Initiative” in their works of serving the poor. Photo Gallery[gallery...
Australian DC website back online
So reports the Australian CM website with an explanation of hiatus of a few weeks on the Daughters of Charity site due to the relocation of the person in charge.
JUSTICE is not about JUST US
The title of Sr. Sharon Horace's blog certainly offers food for thought. It focuses on Justice Resources, activities with Catholic Student Center Justice Group at University of Brownsville, TX, and reflections on living the Christian life.
Haiti death toll could reach 300,000
So writes Haitian President Rene Preval according to Reuters release.
Chopin – perhaps most famous Vincentian parishioner
Chopin (b. 1810) and his family were Holy Cross parishioners for all the time they lived in Warsaw. Holy Cross church and parish is the first Vincentian foundation in Poland (1653). In 1827 they moved to Krasinski Palace which is next to Holy Cross church. Frederic’s...
SVDP Charitable Pharmacy Provides $5M in Medication
The St. Vincent de Paul (SVDP) Charitable Pharmacy in Cincinnati, Ohio, announced last week that it surpassed $5.1 million dollars worth of medication dispensed to help people in need since it opened in September 2006 [1]. The Charitable Pharmacy is the only pharmacy...
MISEVI Assembly 2010 || Chronicles
All the daily chronicles of the MISEVI Assembly in Bogotá (February 5, 6, & 7, 2010) are now available on the MISEVI International website. "I think MISEVI INTERNATIONAL is growing up;" says the writer. "... we already know each other and we are keen to work and...
