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Interfaith Perspectives on Thanksgiving
Interfaith Worker Justice offers these Thanksgiving prayers from different faith traditions in preparation for upcoming Thanksgiving gatherings across our nation. The intent of these Thanksgiving prayers is to encourage all of us to take time to express our...
Daughters of Charity Health System Has New Head
The Daughters of Charity Health System in California has named Interim President and CEO Robert Issai to president and CEO. The Daughters of Charity Health System said Tuesday it promoted Interim President and CEO Robert Issai to president and CEO, effective Nov. 10....
Vincentian Encyclopedia – Spanish, French, German
The Vincentian Encyclopeida, modeled after Wikipedia, is now available in Spanish, French and German.The Spanish and the French versions are being actively developed by a group of lay people as part of a parish project in Spain. <p. The German version is being...
November 23 – Death of Thomas Augustine Judge 1933
In the early 1900's well before the development of the lay apostolate as it came to be called, Fr. Judge was a pioneer who asked volunteers in Alabama not to become priests or Sisters, but to remain lay men and women who could go into the towns, homes, schools, and...
International Update of the Vincentian Marian Youth
Let’s take the risk!!!"What do I do for the others? What am I going to do in this Mission’s month? What I am able to give?" After a brief reflection the Newsletter presents its usual roundup of activities around the world. October 2006
Fight Against Poverty Aids Peace, Says Holy See
NEW YORK, NOV. 13, 2006 (Zenit.org).- The Holy See told a U.N. panel that the eradication of world poverty is a necessary service for peace. When addressing the U.N. General Assembly's committee discussing the topic, the Holy See's permanent observer to the United...
Bush to Host Summit on Malaria
WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House will hold a summit next month seeking strategies for combating malaria, a largely preventable disease that kills 3,000 children every day and claims nearly a million lives a year in Africa. President Bush and his wife, Laura, will...
October Issue of NUNTIA (CM) Online
The October issue of NUNTIA, the international newsletter of the Congregation of the Mission, is now available online.Visit http://www.cmglobal.org/en/news/
Holy See's Address on the Right to Food
ROME, NOV. 10, 2006 (Zenit.org).- Here is the address of Cardinal Renato Martino, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, at a "special event" on the application of the humanitarian right to food. The Rome-based U.N. Food and Agriculture...
Vincentian Volunteers in Ethiopia
As they learned about poverty in Ethiopia, members of the Gateway Vincentian Volunteers were pondering in a very real way what it means to live in poverty As an American, Christy Leming said, it’s sometimes overwhelming to consider how much power she has living in the...
