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Religious Investors Ask Wal-Mart Review Social, Economic Policies
NEW YORK (CNS) -- A group of religious orders and other investors is asking the retail giant Wal-Mart to assess the company's policies and practices in light of their "social, environmental and economic sustainability." A resolution filed for shareholder action said...
SC Homeless Facility Helps Residents Transition to Normal Life
The House of Faith, Inc. was founded in 1992 by Sister Maria Cordis, a member of Sisters of Charity of St. Elizabeth based in Convent Station, N.J. The organization was founded to help homeless single adults acquire self-sufficiency in order to live on their own. The...
DC Runs Creative Arts Program
Founded in 1997, the Roarke Center was looking for ways to help local residents develop judgment and learn to make choices, says Hoag, an art educator with more than 20 years of classroom experience in grade and high schools. Today, she (a former client) helps run the...
SVDP Melbourne Calls for Accounting of Government Use of Fees
The St Vincent de Paul Society charity -- worried about rising fees and charges on the poor -- was among several groups denied access to the full list of charges.But the Government has no plans to reveal to taxpayers the full list of charges or their dollar value....
New International President of the AIC
The International Association of Charities elected, at its International Assembly of Delegates, Mrs. Marina Costa as International President and Mrs. Patricia de Nava as representative of AIC for the Vincentian Family. The International Assembly was held on 11-12...
Aid Group Seeks to Bolster UN Efforts to Combat Malaria
With significant help from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the aid group PATH is seeking to bolster UN efforts to combat malaria in Zambia, where it hopes to cut malaria-related deaths by 75%. The initiative, which received $35 million from the Gates...
DC’s in Britain Join Religious Lobby in Parliament
On the 18th May Daughters of Charity from the British Province joined 1,000 Religious men and women in lobbying Parliament as part of the British MAKE POVERTY HISTORY campaign. They came from the four corners of Britain to emphasise the moral imperative which the UK...
NUNTIA (of the CM) April Issue Available Online
The April 2005 issue of the official Newsletter of the Congregegation of the Mission is now available online.As usual it reports on the activities of the SXuperior General, the activities of the General Curia, significant international meetings and news of various...
Lay Led Liturggies
MARSFIELD, May 19, 2005: The Sunday Lay Led Liturgies, Reflections and Prayers of the Faithful provided by Fr John O'Keefe CM (Australian Province) are now available up till the 20th Sunday of Ordinary Time (August 14, 2005). They can be accessed through the Lay Led...
Sisters of Charity Welcomes a Retired Mother as Member
Today, there are at least 150 sister-moms living in 32 states and representing 92 religious orders, said Sister Bea Keller, a Sister of Charity in Kentucky who has seven children. She said there may be more; the Catholic Church doesn't keep statistics on them.For...
