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News From the International Site of the Daughters of Charity
The International website of the Daughters of Charity has added three news items.Lebanon - Aid of migrant workers and refugees in Beirut Austria - The Kindergarten in Graz: where the parents learn German too! Austria - Festive ending to the'Vincentian Collaborator’s...
Transmission of Faith in the Vincentian Family – Manuel Ginnete, CM
Fr. Mauel Ginnete, CM reflects on the transmission of faith in the Vincentian Family in a presentation to the International Meeting of the Vincentian Family in Valencia Spain, July 7, 2006. The theme of the international meeting is “The transmission of the faith in...
From Slave to Saint – Josephine Bakhita
Bakhita is the first person ever from Sudan to be canonized, or even beatified. She is the first African to be canonized since the early centuries of Christianity, when several North Africans (one of the cores of Christianity before it turned Muslim) were declared...
Pope challenges United States on Middle East
POPE BENEDICT has insisted on an immediate ceasefire in the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, directly challenging the American-led position that conditions are not yet right for a halt in fighting. Speaking on Wednesday in St Peter's Square, where he resumed his...
CM Wants To Be Last Filipino Out of Beirut
Fr. Agustin “Gestie” Advincula, CM was the voice heard over the airwaves, urging government action on the plight of Filipinos trapped in the war zone. His was also the soothing voice providing reassurance to anxious mothers, spouses and children of the country’s...
CM's Leaving Parish After 170 Years
Vincentian priests and brothers have had a presence in Cape Girardeau since the parish was founded in 1836. Two years before that, the Rev. John Timon rode from Perryville to Cape Girardeau on horseback to hold Mass. Two years after the first Vincentian priest arrived...
Vincentian Retreat Center Hosts 2,000 Young Adults
MURINGOOR, India (UCAN) -- About 2,000 young Catholics from India and other countries are taking part in a spiritual retreat aimed at helping one another experience the power of God and escape the power of evil... The center, managed by the Vincentian Congregation,...
Vincentian Evangelist and the Plight of Immigrants
Deacon Arnold Hernandez, a Texas-born farm worker who is now a Vincentian evangelist, tries to comment about the squalor suffered by these legal guest workers to farm owners and operators.HUNTINGTON, Ind. (Our Sunday Visitor) – There's a barn in southeast Arkansas...
SVDP in County Mayo, Ireland
For more than 26 years Martin Waters has made the misery of others his daily concern. As president of the Castlebar conference of St Vincent de Paul, his has been one of the compassionate faces of a caring organisation reaching out to hundreds of people on their...
Oregon SVDP Opens Housing Units
St. Vincent de Paul is no stranger to big-time housing projects. Its most recent effort, a building in downtown Eugene, opened in 2003 and houses 54 units in the upper levels.EUGENE — Frank Lloyd Wright said, “All fine architectural values are human values, else not...
