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Articles from the Famvin News Archive
Passionists Feature Special Issue on Immigration
I was a Stranger - When we think of Mary and Joseph on the road to Bethlehem and then fleeing into Egypt with their new-born child, how simple is seems: find room for them. But when their story multiplies into millions as it does in our time, how complex it becomes....
Innovative Mentoring Program of the SVDP
The St Vincent de Paul Society Queensland is coordinating the establishment of mentoring programs in the Logan/Beaudesert area. THE COORDINATOR of an innovative community mentoring program has urged community members in the Logan area to lend their “time and talents”...
AIC Writes Open Letter to Burmese Authorities
Open letter to Burmese authorities issued an appeal on 19 May 2005 to put an end to violence towards the Burmese opponent Aung San Sun Sun Kyi. Open letter to Burmese authorities [22/08/2005] As Patricia de Nava demonstrated it recently, in her capacity as Doctor...
Conference Picks Up Themes of Vincentian Leaders
The theme of this Conference, Hope:The Foundation of a Civilization of Love and Justice, culminates a two-year focus of the Vincentian Chair of Social Justice Lectures of 2004 and 2005, “Toward a Civilization of Love and Justice” by S. Evelyn Franc, DC and “A Passion...
New Religion and Ecology Website
This site is a portal to the emerging dialogue within religious and spiritual communities on ecological issues. This dialogue shows great promise for sustaining biological and cultural diversity. In varied ways religions have been containers of symbolic language...
Frederic Walked the Christian Talk
Anthony-Frederic Ozanam ministered to the poor of Paris - Blessed Frederic Ozanam -- September 8 Prestigious Notre-Dame-de-Paris Cathedral witnessed on, Aug. 22, 1997 the beatification by Pope John Paul II of Anthony-Frederic Ozanam, an enthusiastic lay crusader who...
Celebrate Homelessness with the SVDP (Australia)
Homeless Persons� Week raises public awareness of Sydney�s homeless and provides homeless people with the opportunity to re-engage within the community. On Monday, August 8, RecLink launched Homeless Persons� Week at Rushcutters Bay Park. Homeless Persons�...
Vincentian Presence at UN Meeting of 3000+ NGO’s
The Vincentian Family has three NGO's - the Congregation of the Mission, the Federation of Sisters of Charity in the Vincentian and Setonian Tradition and, finally, the AIC or Ladies of Charity as they are known in the USA> Backgrounder 58thAnnual DPI/NGO...
No Excuses – Eradicate Poverty
The Millenium Campaign site offers practical ways to eradicate poverty.When 189 Heads of State and government from the North and South, as representatives of their citizens, signed onto the Millennium Declaration at the 2000 UN Millennium Summit, there was a palpable...
Prisoners Remind SVDPer of Wonders of God’s Creation
Arnold Simonse, President of the SVDP Conference of West Virginia, tell of how he and a prisoner ministered to each other in discovering God.... One of the groups that help us at the warehouse and in hauling things here and there are prisoners from the regional jail....
