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Articles from the Famvin News Archive
Two new books on Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton
Elizabeth Ann Seton Saint for a New Nation by Julia Walters and 15 Days of Prayer With Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton by Betty Ann McNeil, D.C. Elizabeth Ann Seton Saint for a New Nation by Julia Walters Paulist Press (2002) This relatively short easily read work gives an...
Fighting Back Against Hunger
WE ARE FIGHTING BACK! is a compilation of inspirational stories of courageous people around the world who are fighting back to reclaim peoples' rights to lead a dignified human existence.This is a SPECIAL EDITION on systemic causes of hunger with the following...
Hunger Is a Threat to Peace, Pope Says
VATICAN, Jun 10, 02 (CWNews.com) -- In a message to participants in the World Food Summit, which opens today in Rome, Pope John Paul II said that "poverty and hunger constitute a concrete threat to peace and international security." The Pope expressed his support for...
MUSIC-THON raises money for the Hunger Project for Kenya.
Daughters of Charity music group raises approximately £2,000 in 12 hour musicthonSee photos and story
US wants to delete ”food as a human right”
ROME--At 3:00 AM on Monday morning the United States stood alone among all nations of the world in blocking further discussion of the draft text of the declaration that governments will sign at the World Food Summit. What was leading the U.S. to stop the all night...
The Dreams of the Poor
Powerful presentation of the Dreams of the Poor http://www.worldbank.org/ourdream/If we act now with realism and foresight, if we show courage, if we think globally and allocate our resources accordingly, we can give our children a more peaceful and equitable world....
Vincentian Formation Workshop – Great Britain
Daughters of Charity gather to discuss, share, pray and relax in the spirit of their calling.For photos and story visit their web site
New Leader for Daughters of Charity – Great Britain
Sr. Sarah Turner DC has been installed as the 13th Visitarix of the Daughters of Charity in Great Britan. For more photos and background visit their recently updated web site
Draft of FAO Food Program and related links
For first draft see http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/004/Y6684E/Y6684E00.HTM For related links see World Food Summit 5 Years Later http://www.fao.org/worldfoodsummit/english/index.html For background information and facts on hunger see...
FAO proposes multi-billion dollar initiative to slash world hunger by 2015
"Fighting hunger is not only a moral imperative, it also brings large economic benefits," the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said today, proposing a new global "Anti-Hunger Programme" on the eve of the World Food Summit: five years later, which will be...
