by John Freund, CM | Dec 10, 2012 | Vincentian Family
The Rubik’s Challenge, organised by Depaul UK to benefit the homeless, was smashed on Thursday 22nd November when 1,414 school-children twisted their way into the Guinness World Record books by solving 80’s phenomenon, the Rubik’s Cube, at the SAME TIME in the...
by John Freund, CM | Dec 10, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Poverty & Homelessness Action Week: get your church organization working to Close the Gap! From the folks atPoverty and Homelessess.. Poverty & Homelessness Action Week 2013 will run from 26 January to 3 February. We organise the Week jointly each year with...
by John Freund, CM | Dec 6, 2012 | Justice and Peace
John L. Allen Jr. writes a brief dispatch from Denmark on Catholic activism on the death penalty. Rumors of the death of the church’s passion for social justice have been greatly exaggerated, at least to judge by a high-profile international conference in Rome...
by John Freund, CM | Nov 27, 2012 | Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Vincentian Family
VINNIES (SVDP Australia) has slammed the Government and the Opposition for driving single mothers deeper into poverty. Centrelink officers have taken to telling single mothers they should seek help from charities once welfare payments stop in January, The...
by John Freund, CM | Nov 27, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The program is based in Great Britain but famvin can vouch for the fact that it is receiving good attention in the blogosphere. Dear …. In the run-up to Poverty & Homelessness Action Week 2013, we’ll be sending out an e-newsletter once a month, with...
