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Articles from the Famvin News Archive
The right to medicines, or the right to profit from medicines
Trade ministers sitting down for discussions in Sydney this week could play a key role in improving access to vital medicines for millions of people across the world. Ministers from 25 leading nations will look at the critical issue of how to revise WTO patent rules...
The Work of the DC in Angola
The Daughters of Charity have been in Angola since 1995. Four of our Sisters from North America collaborated for 3 years with the Catholic Relief Services that have links with Caritas, working on a rehabilitation project for the Hospital of Balombo. Their main work...
Communications Technology in the Service of the Marginalized
In the Philippines, protesters using cell-phone text messaging mobilized hundreds of thousands of demonstrators in January 2001 to help oust President Joseph Estrada. Reference: Time Magazine, June 4, 2001 * In China, tens of thousands of followers of the spiritual...
Tips for Using Instant Messaging (I.M.) with Volunteers
Volunteer managers already have phones and email to work with offsite volunteers. What is the advantage of using Instant Messaging (IM) with such volunteers as well? UNITeS (www.unites.org), the ICT volunteering initiative of United Nations Volunteers...
Education goals remain elusive in more than 70 countries
London, November 13 - Some 83 countries are on track to achieve Education For All (EFA) by the deadline of 2015 set at the World Education Forum in Dakar (Senegal) two and a half years ago. However, on present trends, more than 70 other countries will not make it, and...
Sr. of Charity Reports on Study of 25,500 Associates
"Associates in some ways are helping to carry on the charism in a religious institute through their prayer, daily lives, work and through connecting with vowed members of the institute," says Sr. Ellen O'Connell, SC, executive co-director of the North American...
Fr. Maloney’s Advent 2002 Letter
I have just received the text of Fr. Maloney's 2002 Advent letter. It is posted below. (The French and Spanish versions will appear shortly on their respective famvin site.)Advent 2002 To members of the Vincentian Family My very dear brothers and sisters, Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â ...
Send e-cards in the Vincentian Tradition
At least two Vincentian Family web sites offer the opportunity to send electronic greeting cards.Association of the Miraculous Medal http://test.amm.org/ecard/ Eastern Province of the Congregation of the Mission http://www.cmeast.org/pages/postcards.html
Send e-cards in the Vincentian Tradition
At least two Vincentian Family web sites offer the opportunity to send electronic greeting cards.Association of the Miraculous Medal http://test.amm.org/ecard/ Eastern Province of the Congregation of the Mission http://www.cmeast.org/pages/postcards.html
US Bishops Question Justification for Iraq War
As we Catholic Bishops meet here in Washington, our nation, Iraq and the world face grave choices about war and peace, about pursuing justice and security. These are not only military and political choices, but also moral ones because they involve matters of life and...
