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Articles from the Famvin News Archive
Ethnic Cleansing in Dafur
Troops from the North of Sudan are engaging in ethnic cleansing against the people of in the Western Darfur region. They are gang-raping and abducting girls as young as eight years of age and women as old as 80, systematically killing, torturing, or using them as sex...
Vatican Seminar on Poverty in Light of Globalization
A recent (July 9, 2004) Vatican seminar brought together 100 representatives from the Church, governments, nongovernmental organizations, and the financial world to focus on "Poverty and Globalization: Funding Development and the Millennium's Development Objectives."...
‘Vinnies Awareness Week’ – Australia
SYDNEY, July 25, (catholicweekly.com.au): John O'Neill reports in next Sunday's The Catholic Weekly on Vinnies Awareness Week SYDNEY, July 25, (catholicweekly.com.au): John O'Neill reports in next Sunday's The Catholic Weekly on Vinnies Awareness Week - Last year’s...
Violence May Force ‘VInnies’ to Close Homeless Shelters
SYDNEY, July 25, 2004 (catholicweekly.com.au): Â Chris Lindsay writes in next Sunday's The Catholic Weekly on the problems of violence in centres for the homeless - The potential threat of violence against staff by homeless people suffering from mental illness and/or...
Vincentian Family Retreat in London
Thirty two people from the following branches of the Vincentian Family:Â SVP, AIC, Daughters of Charity, Vincentian Fathers, Company of Mission Priests, and the Depaul Trust gathered in the Provincial House of the Daughters of Charity in Mill Hill, North London from...
News Report on Pope Speaking to Vincentians
Zenit News Service reports on the Pope's Greeting to the Delegates of the Vincentian General Assembly http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=57225
Presentation of the International Director of Miraculous Medal Assoc.
Fr. Charles Shelby has graciously sent the text of the presentation about this "largest branch of the Vincentian family" which he made to the delegates at the CM General Assembly.Report on the International Association of the Miraculous Medal Charles F. Shelby, C.M....
Catholic Social Teaching – Theological Context: Reading the Signs of the Times
Excerpt from Catholic Social Teaching: Our Best Kept Secret, (2003) Orbis Books and the Center of Concern.CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING Catholic Social Teaching Theological Context: Reading the Signs of the Times Excerpted from Catholic Social Teaching: Our Best Kept...
Young People of Ireland I love You – Reflections on Delegates Audience
"YOUNG PEOPLE OF IRELAND I LOVE YOU"  I think it was the greatest statement I ever heard from the altar. It was like being given a message direct from God. Young people! you are lovable just as you are, where you are and how you are at this moment. Of course the...
New Councilors for DC’s in Great Britain
"On the 28th June about a hundred Sisters were present at the celebration of a most beautiful Mass for the installation of Sr Margaret Hastings and Sr Maria Robb as Provincial Councillors joining the existing team of Sisters Teresa Mathews, Maureen Tinkler, Marie Raw...
