by vf-editor | 2020/07/02 | English, News
The Executive Committee of the Vincentian Family invites you to join in a moment of prayer on Facebook Live, to ask God in community for a world that faces serious challenges and suffers from serious global problems. The meeting will take place on Sunday, July 12, at...
by vf-editor | 2020/06/30 | English, News, Stories
In 2015, I had the chance to spend Easter with a Vincentian youth group in the community of Palmas del Río, in El Roble parish, Puntarenas, Costa Rica. Each day we would walk twenty to thirty minutes from the church hall into the village, and from there, we would...
by vf-editor | 2020/06/24 | covid19, English, News
Vincentians across the world have stepped up to the challenge of COVID-19. From soup kitchens in Peru to preventing the spread of the virus in the slums of the Philippines or offering financial and spiritual support for refugees in Rwanda, Vincentians replied to the...
by vf-editor | 2020/06/24 | 13 Houses Campaign, English, News
The FHA’s 2020 ‘Conference on Refugees and Human Trafficking’, is due to take place in Seville later this year unless COVID-19 forces us to postpone until spring 2021. As part of the FHA’s endeavor to build global capacity within the Vincentian Family on homelessness,...
by vf-editor | 2020/06/24 | English, News
Earlier in February, before COVID-19 stopped the world, the United Nations adopted the first resolution defining homelessness, after the first debate on the issue in a generation. The resolution incorporates all the key categories of homelessness from the Framework of...
by vf-editor | 2020/06/24 | English, News
On January 8-12, 2020, more than 200 leaders of the Vincentian Family, representing 91 branches, gathered in Rome (Italy) to reflect upon the realities of collaboration and the future of the Vincentian charism. This event was unique in many ways. It was the first...
