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Articles from the Famvin News Archive
Poverty and Natural Disasters
It’s Not Fair: Disasters in Poor Countries - A look at why diasters hit the poor the hardest. • About 95 percent of deaths caused by disasters occur in poor countries. A disaster of similar nature and size causes more deaths in poor countries than in rich ones. •...
Australian Vinnies Reaching Out to Help the Young
SYDNEY, October 9, 2005 (vinnies.org.au): John O’Neill, NSW/ACT State president of the St Vincent de Paul Society, writes for The Catholic Weekly - There are many people among us that, due to their crisis situation, do not have the same opportunities to enjoy and...
Daughters of Charity Receive Grant to Document Catholic Education
Albany, New York October 11, 2005 – The Daughters of Charity Archives of the Northeast Province was awarded a Documentary Heritage Program grant by the New York State Archives to study the Daughters’ role in the history of Catholic education in New York State. The...
Vincentian President of Catholic University Speaks to Youth
During his homily, Fr. David O'Connell, CM said that 65 percent of the world’s population is younger than 25. Some of the people these youths look up to "have compromised the most important things in life," he said, such as human life and the importance of family. "Is...
Vincentian Family Soup Kitchen Part of Hungerthon
St. John’s Bread and Life will both be featured and supported on this year’s Hungerthon broadcast. As you may know Hungerthon joins together WHY, radio stations, corporations, and individual donors to fight the hunger and poverty problem that affects 37 million...
Sr. of Charity (Cinncinnati) Addresses Nursing Honor Society
Scholar-nurse Clarann Weinert, SC asks nursing honor society members "What fires you up?" and how do you "fan the flame" that keeps that passion alive?At a conference in Chico Wednesday, Montana professor Clarann Weinert talked to nurses and nursing students about how...
Hope Fades For Post-Katrina Debate on Poverty
The New York Times carries a front page story about the fading hopes for a national discussion on poverty in the wake of what people were reminded of by Katrina WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 - As Hurricane Katrina put the issue of poverty onto the national agenda, many liberal...
Holy See’s U.N. Address on World Program of Action for Youth
NEW YORK, OCT. 10, 2005 (Zenit.org).- The Holy See exhorted the United Nations to identify and provide answers to some of the problems facing the world's young people. With 200 million young people living in poverty, 130 million illiterate, 88 million unemployed and...
Natural Disaster in Central America and in the south of Mexico
With more than 233 deaths and almost 100.000 evacuated people that were assisted in 500 hostels established in Guatemala, El Salvador, and in the south state of México, Chiapas. In many of these places the church has played an important role in giving help to the most...
VINCENTIANA Online in Searchable Format
Famvin.org is happy to announce the re-opening of the searchable database of VINCENTIANA containing all issues from 1995-2003 in all three official languages.VINCENTIANA is the official journal of the Congregation of the Mission. The entire corpus may be searched...
