by vf-editor | 2023/03/31 | 13 Houses Campaign, 13 Houses Campaign Bulletin, English, News, Stories, Uncategorized
The 13 Houses Campaign keeps growing: with the launch of the call for proposals on 30 August 2022, we witnessed the Vincentian desire to strengthen a ‘network of charity’ for homeless people that goes beyond geographical borders. The objective of the call was to...
by vf-editor | 2023/02/24 | 13 Houses Campaign, 13 Houses Campaign Bulletin, English, News, Uncategorized
‘It only took two weeks to go from poverty to absolute homelessness in Honduras and Guatemala’. (BBC, 2020) Through these few words, we can already feel the catastrophic effects of hurricanes Eta and Iota that devastated Central America in 2020. The...
by vf-editor | 2022/10/27 | 13 Houses Campaign, 13 Houses Campaign Bulletin, English, News
Papua New Guinea (PNG) is the largest country of the Melanesian Region in the South Pacific and ranks among the most culturally diverse worldwide, home to approximately 8.8 million people and 840+ ethno-linguistic groups (World Bank 2019). PNG remains close to the...
by vf-editor | 2022/03/17 | English, News
To all the confreres of the Congregation of the Mission “UKRAINE IS CRYING AGAIN” Dear confreres, May the grace and peace of Jesus be always with us! A Ukrainian Orthodox priest, Alexi Pelipenko, who later converted to Catholicism, wrote a book after World War II...
by vf-editor | 2022/03/08 | 13 Houses Campaign, 3 years, English, News
Botswana, France and Italy have joined the “13 Houses” Campaign with three very different projects. We are happy to have reached the benchmark of 50 countries with at least one “13 Houses” project, and even more to welcome France, the birthplace of the Vincentian...
