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Articles from the Famvin News Archive
What children and babies can teach us about Christmas
John O'Keefe, CM writes "I think every baby has something very important that we adults need to learn. Every baby teaches us the fundamentals of being human, and we need to listen to them."
Miami teenagers selling African honey in US
The Honey Project (YouTube official video) is a nonprofit entity run by teenagers that sells organic honey from Africa to people in the United States. The students raise money for the village in Agogo, Ghana, where the honey is produced. The project has funded about...
Trash dump dwellers to home owners
Stories of Systemic Change (This marks the fourth in a series of 10 Vincentian family projects that will be described by Fr. Robert Maloney, Chair of the Systemic Change initiative in the Vincentian Family.) 4. The Homeless People's Federation of the Philippines A...
One Business Community’s Effort to Fight Poverty
A chance meeting between a panhandler and a retired corporate executive led to the establishment of a Business Community Anti-Poverty Initiative in the Canadian city of St. John, significantly reducing poverty and increasing the city's labor force participation. Read...
Superior General in China
As I travel around the world, one of the most common questions asked of me is one having to do with the status of the church in China and the situation of our confreres and Daughters there. I am glad to have had the opportunity to visit them personally, and with this...
A Vincentian Family Christmas
Reflections on the Vincentian Family at Christmas(If you can't see the video, you probably need to install the current flash player, available here.)
New wave of person-to-person lending
As Christmas arrives with a seasonal reminder to look out for the less fortunate, investors are finding a growing range of options for helping without a handout. Every morning Diane Reese can't wait to find out whether her 782 hand-picked business partners – a...
“God Finds a Space, Even If It Means Entering Through the Stable”
VATICAN CITY, DEC. 24, 2007 (Zenit.org).- Here is a Vatican translation of Benedict XVI's homily today at Christmas Midnight Mass in St. Peter's Basilica.
Christmas contrasts as seen by Superior General in Middle East
"One particular scene expresses it clearly. Not far from the Provincial Houses of the Daughters of Charity and the Congregation of the Mission in Lebanon there is a square where the nativity scene was set up. In front of the nativity scene there was a military tank...
Daughters of Charity (Seville) host younger sisters
Sisters 2-15 years of vocation from the Province of Seville met together with Sister Mª Pilar Rendón (Visitatrice of the Province), Sister Consuelo Massé (Formation Counsellor) and Father Manuel Freire (Provincial Director). Read more
