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Articles from the Famvin News Archive
''Shift Gears and Recycle-A-Bike'' – Project of SVDP in Arizona
by Beth | Mar 23, 2003 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Phoenix, AZ - From February 22 through March 31, South Mountain Cycles in Ahwatukee is asking the community to drop-off gently used bicycles to be donated to St. Vincent de Paul's Shifting Gears Program. Shifting Gears puts young people to work after school, learning...
Caritas-Iraq Is Fully Operational with 14 Centers Iraq
by Beth | Mar 22, 2003 | Justice and Peace
Provides 14 Centers in Baghdad, Basra, Kirkuk, and Mosul VATICAN CITY, MARCH 21, 2003 (Zenit.org).- As the coalition forces advance into Iraq, Caritas is providing humanitarian aid in 14 centers throughout Baghdad, Basra, Kirkuk and Mosul. The centers are fully...
Vatican Newspaper Proposes 24-Hour Worldwide Rosary For Peace
by Beth | Mar 22, 2003 | Vincentian Family
VATICAN CITY, MARCH 21, 2003 (Zenit.org).- The L'Osservatore Romano newspaper highlighted an invitation for believers worldwide to pray the Rosary in the next 24 hours for peace in Iraq. Today's daily edition of the Vatican newspaper stated that the beginning of...
Vincentian Millennium Partnership endorses Archbishops' call for peace
by Beth | Mar 22, 2003 | Vincentian Family
3 March 2003 -The Vincentian Millennium Partnership (VMP) justice group in England and Wales agreed on Saturday to endorse the joint pre-Lent statement on Iraq by Archbishop Rowan Williams and Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor in which they stated: "War is always a...
Srs. of Charity – Leavenworth Dedicate New Retreat Center
by Beth | Mar 22, 2003 | Vincentian Family
The Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth will bless and dedicate Marillac Center, their new retreat and conference center, at 1:30 p.m. March 15. Marillac Center is located adjacent to the SCL Mother House at 4200 South 4th Street in Leavenworth, Kan. This facility is...
Vincentian Housing Partnership in Ireland
by Beth | Mar 22, 2003 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The Vincentian Housing Partnership, also known as 'Rendu Apartments' provides good quality, rented accommodation for people in the age group 20 -50 who are experiencing poverty or who can not otherwise get access to affordable accommodation. Volunteers, the directors...
U.S. Bishop's Conference President Expresses Regrets Over War
by Beth | Mar 21, 2003 | Justice and Peace
WASHINGTON, D.C., MARCH 20, 2003 (Zenit.org).- The president of the U.S. bishops' conference expressed his brother prelates' regrets over the Iraq crisis but hoped for limited damage from the war. Bishop Gregory Calls for Prayer, and Protection of the Innocent "Our...
Partners Against Poverty Receives Grant
by Beth | Mar 21, 2003 | Vincentian Family
Jim Ryan, Director of the Gateway Vincentian Volunteers program and Coordinator of the Partners, accepts a grant from Sr. Cathy Vetter, CCVI, Board member of the Incarnate Word Foundation On January 15, 2003, the cooperative consortium known as Partners...
Irish Vincentians Work with ''Travellers''
by Beth | Mar 21, 2003 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Travellers are a distinct cultural and ethnic group in Ireland constituting less than 1% of the total population. There are currently about 5,000 Travelling families totalling some 30,00 individuals of whom more than 50% are under 15 years. 'Our Christian Community...
St. Vincent on Ravages of War
by Beth | Mar 21, 2003 | Justice and Peace
[The] number [of poor persons] is very great and so are their needs. We have started assisting them corporally....We are obliged to go and serve them in the rural areas where they are. They are our portion, and now that they are coming to us, driven out by the...