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Breaking the Cycle of Poverty – Planting Trees and the Nobel Prize
" I listened as women related what they wanted but did not have enough of: energy, clean drinking water and nutritious food. My response was to begin planting trees with them, to help heal the land and break the cycle of poverty."Wangari Maathai, the 2004 winner of...
100-150 Million Street Children – ‘No Room in the Inn’
ROME, DEC. 10, 2004 (Zenit.org).- An international meeting on the plight of street children says there is an urgent need for a pastoral program to help the youngsters. Street children are a "'snapshot' of the society in which they live, which has not supported them,"...
Video Link: Fr. Greg Gay: Rome
In his fifth video Fr. Greg reports on events occuring in Rome. Can't see the video? Perhaps you need to download and install the Windows Media player for your computer. You can get Windows Media Player Here (for Windows and Macintosh...
Christmas Stories
The Bruderhof web site contains a collection of 20 inspirational Christmas stories.Bruderhof collection of Christmas stories The site is also rich in other inspirational sections. The Bruderhof is a network of faith-based communities that began in Europe in the...
Fr. Greg Gay Visits Alabama
Superior General, Fr. Greg Gay, celebrated mass Friday morning at St. Mary's Church in Opelika AL. During his very brief stay in East Alabama on his way home from Chile he was able to spend a few hours with confreres who serve in Alabama and be introduced to a few...
Current Issue of NUNTIA (News of the CM) Online
The November issue of the International Journal of the Congregation of the Mission is now available electronically.Among the news items.... Vincentian representation at the World Congress of Consecrated Life - "Passion for Christ, Passion for Humanity" Fr. G. Gregory...
”St Vincent de Paul (weekly) Column is once again online” – Sidney
"The Catholic Weekly" (Sidney, Australia) has a weekly column by the President of the St. Vincent dePaul Society.This week's subject concerns help for gambling addicts. "The St Vincent de Paul Society’s Special Work, GAME, is a gambling counselling service which helps...
Half of US food goes to waste
25/11/2004 - ... a new study reveals that almost half the food in the country goes to waste - a statistic that should alarm an industry that is struggling to achieve greater efficiency in order to salvage profits. Sources The new study, from the University of Arizona...
UNICEF – 2005 Childhood Under Threat
More than a billion children - over half the children in the world - suffer extreme deprivation because of war, H.I.V./AIDS or poverty, according to a report released yesterday by the United Nations Children's Fund.While there have been gains in reducing the death...
Dec. 19, 1959 – Elizabeth Seton Declared ‘Venerable’
Pope John XXIII declares Elizabeth Ann Seton Venerable - December 19, 1959Further resources
