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Articles from the Famvin News Archive
Poorest nations hurt as cash goes to Iraq
British government aid programmes aimed at some of the poorest people in the world are to be emasculated to allow ministers to commit £540m in aid to help rebuild Iraq, The Independent has discovered. So writes Leonard Doyle Foreign Editor 23 October 2003....
Next International Meeting of SSVDP to be held in Brazil
According to Renato Lima of the Portuguese language web site of the Society the next meeting of the Society of St. Vincent dePaul will be held in Brazil in 2005. This decision was made at the current International Meeting in Rome. The main site is located at...
Photos of Dedication of Assisted Living Facility for CM's
The site of the Eastern Province of the Congrgation of the Mission has just posted an album of pictures from the dedication of the new Asssited Living facility for members of the Province. http://www.cmeast.org/pagesFeatures/038f.html
Vincentian Prepares Lay Led Liturgies
This series of Lay Led Liturgies is designed by Australian Fr. John O'Keefe, C.M., "mainly for people in outback areas where the people have no Prayer Books or Lectionaries. But they may help people everywhere and people are free to use them as they see fit." One...
Celebrating 150 Years in Sheffield
There was a simple pilgrimage of faith which celebrated 150 years of Vincentian presence in the diocese of Sheffield. It traced a little of the story of the Vincentian families beginnings in Sheffield and explored Vincentian Spirituality and its challenge for us...
Fr.Maloney's Annual Mission Letter
Fr. Maloney's annual letter on missions in the Congregation of the Mission is now posted on the English version of the international site of the Congregation of the Mission.To the members of the Congregation of the Mission My very dear Confreres, May the...
Vincentian Family celebrates in London
On the 30th September around 150 members of the Vincentian Family gathered in Westminster Cathedral Hall to celebrate the Feast of St Vincent. The branches of the Vincentian Family included: The Society of St Vincent de Paul; the Daughters of Charity and their...
World Mission Sunday Message
"The task of missionary animation must continue to be a serious, consistent duty of every baptized person and of every ecclesial community. "Dear Brothers and Sisters, 1. From the beginning, I wished to place my pontificate under Mary's special protection. Further, I...
Where the DC Work
The web site of the Daughters of Charity of the Emmitsburg Province in the USA has complied a set of links to the web sites associated with their various apostolates. Health Ministry Social Service/Parish Ministry Vincentian Collaboration
Empty Rhetoric on Poverty
AUSTRALIA, October 17, 2003 (theaustralian.news.com.au): Dennis Shanahan comments for The Australian on poverty as a national issue - ".....Too much of the fight for the poor has become empty rhetoric, envy and malice directed at the rich. Too much of the denial of...