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More on the SSVDP International Assembly – 2003, 2005
Renato Lima gives further details about the International Assembly of the SSVDP.The SSVP's 12th International Plenary Assembly, held in Rome (Italy) between 14 and 19 of October of 2003, made two important decisions. The first one concerns the approval of Part III of...
Daughters of Charity – 185 Years of Service
"We've been celebrating lots of jubilees in the British Province in recent weeks - silver, golden & diamond which means a lot of years of love & commitment. Congratulations to all concerned" writes Maureen TInkler,DC1. Golden Moment in PollokshieldsSr Margaret...
Prayers for Mass of Rosalie Rendu
Tim Williams writes from Sarina, Queensland, (October 26, 2003): Some Vincentians and Daughters of Charity have asked about the Mass Prayers in English for Rosalie Rendu DC who is to be Beatified in November. Information received from the CM General Curia is that for...
UN International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
17th October 2003 - The September 2003 edition of JUST.NOW (newsletter of Vincentian Partnership for Justice) looks at the reality of poverty and its impact on the key areas of life in our society. For the good news and the bad news read on...Poverty the reality........
Spam Eroding People's Trust – Pew Foundation Study
WASHINGTON (October 22, 2003) -- The recent explosion of email spam is beginning to take its toll on the Internet world. A new nationwide survey shows that 25% of America's email users say they are using email less because of spam. Within that group, most say that...
Love Means Service….To Love Is To Serve
A Reflection by Sr. Barbara DeMoranville, MSBT General Custodian of the Missionary Servants of the Most Blessed Trinity On the Occasion of the Margaret Healy Leadership Assembly of the Missionary Cenacle Apostolate Holy Trinity, Alabama, March 29, 2003 As members of...
Casting an Online Net for Priests and Nuns
12 to 15 inquiries each week generated by the Los Angeles site (www.la-archdiocese .org),JOHN KLEIN sold software for a living until one day in 1996 when he went online and suddenly found himself on the road to the seminary. One year later he had left his high-powered...
Christmas Gifts That Help Those Who are Poor
Heifer animals (and training in their care) offer hungry families around the world a way to feed themselves and become self-reliant. Heifer International provides a contemporary way of living out Vincent's approach of giving a "hand-up" rather than a "hand-out". The...
Poorest nations hurt as cash goes to Iraq
British government aid programmes aimed at some of the poorest people in the world are to be emasculated to allow ministers to commit £540m in aid to help rebuild Iraq, The Independent has discovered. So writes Leonard Doyle Foreign Editor 23 October 2003....
Next International Meeting of SSVDP to be held in Brazil
According to Renato Lima of the Portuguese language web site of the Society the next meeting of the Society of St. Vincent dePaul will be held in Brazil in 2005. This decision was made at the current International Meeting in Rome. The main site is located at...
