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Articles from the Famvin News Archive
Columnist finds an enterprise “that’s all about helping people”
A columnist in a Tampa Bay, Florida USA newspaper praises the mission of the newly "scrubbed, painted and decorated" thrift store operated by the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul: "the mission of all who work there seems to be to see that people get what they need."...
“Crossroads” documentary premieres Sunday
Sunday evening, public television in South Carolina, USA will premiere a documentary about the work of women religious in South Carolina. The documentary, funded by the Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina, looks at the schools, parishes, hospitals and more...
“Belonging to something bigger, greater, older and newer than me”
That's what Daughter of Charity Catherine Salani says about what it means to be Vincentian in an interview for the Vincentian Family World Youth Day Web site. She will be a keynote speaker at the Vincentian World Youth Days later this year. Here's the interview: What...
Mission report from Daughters in Gaza
The Daughters of Charity - Gaza blog, subtitled "Trying to help the poorest of the poor in Gaza" was updated last week with a number of pictures and a YouTube. There are photos and narrative about children and teachers returning to a nursery school that had recently...
Photos for the first day of Spring
Sister of Charity Marty Dermody has several photographs available at the "Capture Cincinnati" Web site, include a couple that seem especially fitting for North America's first day of Spring. Visit the Web page.
More coverage of therapeutic preschool
Earlier in the week we mentioned the preschool project for homeless children sponsored by the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul in Eugene, Oregon USA. Now a television station has picked up the story, complete with video. See the coverage.
Vincentian WYD site has online retreat for Holy Week
Stop! Listen! Respond! Live! urges the online retreat at the Vincentian World Youth Day site. Check out the retreat. Hat tip, Tim Williams, C.M. at the Australian Vincentian News Site
Discernment at the Daughters’ mission in Kenya
The Web site of the Daughters of Charity at Emmitsburg has an extensive report on the opening of a seminary in Kenya (a story previously reported at famvin.org) and the four women who have begun discernment. Read the article.
Here’s looking at…
Daughters of Charity in the US West Central Province. They have a nifty photo gallery that includes photos from their 2008 Community Days and impressive views of the Provincialate under snow. Visit the gallery.
World Water Day
March 22 is the international observance of World Water Day, an initiative that grew out of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro. For information about the observance, including events celebrating World Water Day...
