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Articles from the Famvin News Archive
CM-NGO Site Features Vincentian Family Global Network
The CM-NGO site has a brief description of some of the branches of the Vincentian Family Global Network. "In 17th century France, Vincent de Paul founded a number of organizations to meet the material and spiritual needs people who were poor, sick or marginalized in...
Report on the Work of the CM at the UN
In this first report I tried to communicate the scope of the work of an NGO Representative and to give something of a "feel" for the work itself. Advocacy work happens most effectively when it is done in committed working groups that produce products that are seen as...
”Beyond the Streets” – Innovative Program of the Daughters of Charity
Beyond the Streets was created in 2002 to help some of St. Francis Medical Center's young trauma patients, many who were being treated for gang-related gunshot and stab wounds. The hospital's association with the Daughters of Charity Foundation established a steady...
SVDP Calls for Socially Inclusive Budget
SYDNEY, May 6, 2005 (catholicweekly.com.au): The St Vincent de Paul Society calls on the Federal Treasurer to make this year’s budget an inclusive social document. In his column in The Catholic Weekly, Owen Rogers, chief executive officer of the St Vincent de Paul...
JMV International Update for April
As young and adult members of the VMY, we have to dedicate ourselves to the task of evangelization. That is to say that we are to proclaim the Gospel with the objective of bringing to Christ and to His Church every baptized Christian so that they may become...
Eastern Province Seminary Library Finds a Home in Kenya
Amidst great joy, with the music and dancing that accompanies happy events on the continent of Africa, the Mary Immaculate Collection was blessed by Most Rev. David Kamau Ng'ang'a, Auxiliary Bishop of Nairobi, on Tuesday, March 23, 2005. The blessing was the...
Media – Tool to Build Bridges Between Peoples
"Indeed, the media have enormous potential for promoting peace and building bridges between peoples. The media can teach billions of people about other parts of the world and other cultures. Accurate knowledge promotes understanding, dispels prejudice, and awakens the...
From the Hunger Front
New York City, already having levels of hunger that dwarf levels in any other major city in the industrialized world, is planning to cut funding for the Emergency Food Assistance ProgramBloomberg AGAIN Proposes Reduction in Pantry, Kitchen Funds $670,000 Cut Would...
Vatican On Nuclear Disarmament
The Time Has Passed "for Finding Ways to a 'Balance in Terror'" NEW YORK, MAY 5, 2005 (Zenit.org).- Here is the statement that Archbishop Celestino Migliore, permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, delivered to the 7th Review Conference of the States...
SVDP Wins Major Grant for “Model Sites”
T. LOUIS/EWORLDWIRE/May 5, 2005 --- The St. Vincent de Paul National Council's "SVdP Model Sites: An Options for Development Project" goal is to more effectively serve the poor through the expansion of fund development work at the Society's regional and local levels....
