by Beth | Apr 20, 2005 | Justice and Peace
The speakers at the conference will include the South African ambassador to Ireland, Melanie Verwoerd, and Sister Bernadette McMahon and Sister Margo Delaney of the Vincentian Partnership for Social Justice. Human dignity must be at the heart of the state’s treatment...
by Beth | Mar 30, 2005 | Justice and Peace
The Society of Saint Vincent de Paul is calling for tax breaks, which allow the wealthy to get away with paying little or no tax, to be suspended.The charity organisation has made a submission to the Department of Finance about various tax incentives including tax...
by Beth | Mar 23, 2005 | Justice and Peace
A member of the Daughters of Charity working in partnership with CAFOD in Ethiopia, spoke to MPs and Peers today, during a visit organised as part of the MAKE POVERTY HISTORY campaign.The Leader of the House of Lords, Baroness Amos invited Sister Medhin Tesfaye to...
by Beth | Mar 18, 2005 | Justice and Peace
The clout of a strong republic is gauged by the compassion it extends to the weakest citizens. …Daughters of Charity nuns, who live among the Atis and serve them, stand up for the embattled Atis (Philippines).As in Mindanao, after outsiders...
by Beth | Mar 6, 2005 | Justice and Peace
The Vincentian Millennium Partnership site provides practical ways to be a “professor” (doer) of theology in the marketplace.They offer courses designed to enable Clergy and others, of any faith or none, already working among deprived families and...
