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Articles from the Famvin News Archive
St. Vincent de Paul council fosters charity’s deep purpose
12/11/2003 Ed Langlois (Portland Catholic Sentinel) Mention St. Vincent de Paul, and most Oregon Catholics think of the volunteers who operate the parish food bank or the thrift stores in Portland and several other Oregon towns. But behind the emergency services,...
Canadian National President Reports on National SSVDP
Dear Vincentian Friends It is now about a week and a half after the close of the 34th AGA of the National Council of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, and I would like to offer the following reflection, comments etc.. - From all reports, this meeting was a huge...
Icon Depicting Vocation of the Sisters of Charity of St. Joan Antida
A young Benedictine monk has created an icon to represent the vocation of the Sisters of Charity of St. Joan Antida.The icon is very effectively presented at their web site http://www.suoredellacarita.org/english/english_gen.htm
Effectiveness of Consumer Boycotts Against Unethical Firms
According to the Indepentent News of Britain... A new generation of consumer activists is emerging in Britain, with more than one in two people boycotting the products of companies that they regard as unethical, according to a study. Independent Home | News | Sport |...
Irish SVDP spends 100,000 Euros per day fighting poverty
With this and other stories Deborah Payne documents how the Voice of the Poor is being heard around the world.She writes.... Dear Friends, VOP is alive and well in Ireland as seen by news releases that can be found on the voice of the poor website at...
Kofi Annan's Speaks to 12,000 World Summit On Infotechnology and the Poor
Information Summit Opens With Call To Fight Poverty - ""Over 70 percent of all Internet users live in the world's richest countries, where only 16 percent of the globe's population lives," Secretary General Yoshio Utsumi of the International Telecommunication Union,...
Is Lack of Technology an ''Underlying Cause'' of Poverty?
For a representative sampling of 7 positions (pro and con) taken on a UN conference in Geneva going on at the moment . These are particularly interesting in light of Pope John Paul's challenge to the Vincentian Family to search for "underlying causes and long term...
Sr. Kieran Kneaves Reflections for USA SVDP Meetings
Sr. Kieran Kneaves, DC has once again made available her reflections based on the Sunday liturgies. The link will allow you to download the document in Word format. The include a brief one page guide on how to use these one page reflections in meetings. The series...
News of the Srs. of Charity of S. Joan Antida
Sisters of Charity Arrive in Ethiopia 24 – 29 November; 2nd Missionary Congress for America. For more information visit http://www.suoredellacarita.org/english/english_gen.htm
''On this day…'' in the history of the Daughters of Charity
Seton Health Care in Central Texas has an interesting page with a link that each day presents what happened "On this day..."http://www.seton.net/AboutUs/DaughtersofCharityo0/index.asp There some very intersting other features spread through these pages....
