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Articles from the Famvin News Archive
Famvin2008 – Facebook group
Lisa Bright invites us to a Facebook group FAMVIN2008. This group is an outgrowth of the experience of the Vincentian attendees at World Youth Day but is open to all members of the Vincentian Family. For those who are not aware of Facebook and its possibilities the...
Participants of Vincentian Meeting in New Orleans raise $100,000
Participants at the recent Vincentian Family Gathering are half way to their goal of raising $200,000 to support efforts of the Vincentian Family to address the post-Katrina needs. Gene Smith, author of the challenge, sends the following update. July 25, 2008 Dear...
Villa Siena receives Excellence in Action award
Villa Siena, a residential care and nursing facility, which is sponsored by the Daughters of Charity, Province of the West, received an award for outstanding patient care. The Excellence in Action award recognizes nursing homes throughout the country that are...
Superior General and Vincentian Youth
Fr. Susilo, CM sends this wonderful picture of Fr. Gregory Gay, CM Superior General and Fr. Manny Ginete, CM, liason to the Vincentian Family. Click image to enlarge.
Australian CM reflects on World Youth Day
Fr. Michael Walsh CM offers his reflections on the World Youth Day experienced firsthand.
The Vincentian Family commits to transform unjust situations and to have a positive impact on public policy and laws
The nineteenth in the Seeds of Change series: 20 strategies for systemic change described by members of the Vincentian Family’s Commission for Promoting Systemic Change. Robert Maloney, C.M. collects the official statements from 5 major branches of the Vincentian...
Reports from Asia and Australia
In April and May 2008, Fr Gerard Du Tran Cong, Assistant General, visited several countries in Asia and the Pacific. He reports... This translation has been provided by Toma in Poland VISIT TO THAILAND From April 7 to 12, he visited the Vincentian community working in...
Emotional roller coaster for Vincentian Lay Missioner in Ethiopia
This is report from Mark Buerle, one of our missionaries in Bahir Dar. I just got back from a visit there to do some evaluation and check in with the missionaries. Jessica Gray Warner, our ed coordiantor there is doing a terrific job. Mark Buerle, whose text follows,...
BeadforLife Helps Lift Ugandan Women Out of Poverty
Remember Tupperware parties? In places throughout the U.S., beads made by women from a Ugandan village are the items being sold. The proceeds are having a dramatic effect in Kampala, Uganda. Women in Kampala had been making beads and selling them to occasional...
July 31 – Foundation of Sisters of Charity Emmitsburg
July 31 marks the foundation by Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton of the Sisters of Charity of Saint Joseph's at Emmitsburg, MD, the first native community of religious women founded in the United States - 1809
