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Articles from the Famvin News Archive
CEO Sleepout raises over 1/2 million dollars for the homeless in Australia
220 Australian CEO's raise more than 1/2 million dollars, up from a mere  $40,000 last year,  on behalf of the homeless by sleeping out in Sydney's Luna Park on June 18.  St Vincent de Paul Society organizers  expressed sincere thanks to partners, sponsors and...
You have to start somewhere… systemic change, college students, Daughters of Charity and the SVDP
"You have to start somewhere"  and college students teach the Daughters and the SVDP one place to start for systemic change. "Sex Trafficking in Macon, Georgia?" is the lead story in the current joint newsletter of the Daughters of Charity and Social Justice Committee...
World hunger ‘hits one billion’
BBC One billion people throughout the world suffer from hunger, a figure which has increased by 100 million because of the global financial crisis, says the UN. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said the figure was a record high. Persistently high food...
Vincentian parish hosting Year of St Paul National e-Conference (Australia)
St Vincent's Parish Ashfield will be a host site for the Year of St Paul National e-Conference sponsored by the Diocese of Broken Bay and the Australian Bishops Conference.  For more info on what this National E-Conference is about, go to the links  Year of Paul...
Feast of the Sacred Heart – Year of the Priest.
"This Year, meant to deepen the commitment of all priests to interior renewal for the sake of a more forceful and incisive witness to the Gospel in today’s world, will conclude on the same Solemnity in 2010.... In his time the Curé of Ars was able to transform the...
SSVDP in Paraguay selling its paintings to pay bills
National Council of the SSVDP does not have a Headquarter for the meetings and they even do not have resources for the payment of the registration of their Statutes. In order to obtain resources for the continuity of their activities, the National Council of Paraguay...
Immigration Board Game
A fun activity to start a conversation about immigration with your leaders or allies. Northwest Federation of Community Organizations (NWFCO} created this board game as a tool for grassroots organizations to use. Just click on the game parts below and print them out...
Re-Release of definitive Seton biography
The definitive biography, Elizabeth Bayley Seton 1774-1821, originated from a doctoral dissertation written nearly sixty years ago by Annabelle Melville, at The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. Little did she anticipate that two years later in 1951,...
Vincentian Spirituality – Spirituality of the Poor? Spirituality of Justice
What is Vincentian spirituality? What elements, practices, approaches are essential to it as a spirituality? Fr. Dan Borlik CM reflects on this in his Vincentian Encyclopedia article Spirituality of the Poor? Spirituality of Justice?Fr. Dan Borlik, CM is currently...
CM uses video to educate about TB among indigenous people
In "Shared Sickness" TB in the Ngobe Family Fr. Joe Fitzgerald, CM uses video as part of his  doctoral project to tell the story of how this disease affects the indigenous Ngobe people of Panama.
