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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...
Tucson Teens (SVDP) Help in New Orleans
Youth St. Vincent DePaul organization at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Parishin Tucson working in New Orleans."About two weeks after the hurricane, I was talking to my dad, trying to figure out what we could do," said Sam Zelinski, the primary force behind Teen...
Caritas Migrant Center (Lebanon) and the Daughters of Charity
...another center had to be opened in the mountains in Raifoun in order to accommodate everyone. Hundreds of women are sheltering at the new location, in a convent run by the Daughters of Charity.There are more than 90,000 documented Sri Lankans working in Lebanon,...
Pope Again Appeals for Peace
In this moment I cannot help think of the situation, ever more grave and more tragic, that the Middle East is going through: hundreds of dead, many wounded, a huge number of the homeless and refugees; houses, towns and infrastructure destroyed; meanwhile, hatred and...
Religious Liberty in Asia (Part 3)
THrid part of the series on religious liberty in Asia.Zenit
A Vincentian Reflection on Peace – Robert Maloney
Father Robert Maloney's 'A Vincentian Reflection on Peace' is available online.It is reprinted from VINCENTIANA 2004:2 and can currently be found at cmglobal.org Two brief excerpts... ... Mediation as ministry To borrow a phrase from Karl Rahner, there are many...
The CM and the DC in Lebanon
The Superior General of the CM and the DC has given permission for the following email to be posted.I just got off the phone with Fr. Antoine Pierre Nakad, the director of the Daughters of Charity for the Middle East. I chose to call him because he speaks English and...
Religious Liberty in Asia (Part 2)
Second part of the series on Asia.Zenit
Language Barriers Compromise Health Care of 50 Million Americans
While passions flare on all sides of the language debate, the result is that the language barrier negatively impacts health care for 50 million (19 percent) U.S. residents who do not speak English at home and the 22 million (eight percent) with limited English...
Religious Liberty ( Cont.) Asia
Latest installment of series from the Vatican-related 'Church in Need'Earlier report survey North and South America Religious Liberty in Asia