by John Freund, CM | Dec 7, 2014 | Daughters of Charity, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Christmas gifts via Daughters of Charity Africa – The Daughters of Charity work throughout the world with people who are poor, marginalized and discriminated against. The Irish Province supports services in Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana and Burkina Faso. If you would...
by John Freund, CM | Mar 29, 2013 | Formation
Vincentian Lay Missioners walk the way of the cross in Africa with new eyes. Spend 14 minutes in prayer with them. Pope Francis has asked us to go to the outskirts. These young people share what they have learned about the cross from their time in Africa. Also found...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 28, 2012 | Technology: Issues and Uses
Three-quarters of the countries that use mobile money most frequently are in Africa, and mobile banking in some of them has reached extraordinary levels according to a report in The Economist in an article entitled “Press 1 for modernity” Many people know...
by John Freund, CM | Jan 15, 2012 | Church
The number of Christians around the world has nearly quadrupled in the last 100 years, from about 600 million in 1910 to more than 2 billion in 2010. But the world’s overall population also has risen rapidly, from an estimated 1.8 billion in 1910 to 6.9 billion in...
by John Freund, CM | Oct 5, 2011 | Daughters of Charity, Vincentian Family
The international site  of the Daughters of Charity presents stories of their work in Cnetral Africa. The 6th Inter-Provincial Meeting of the Councils of Eight Provinces of Africa and Madagascar was held from July 8th-18th in the province of Central Africa, Rwanda. At...