by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Oct 13, 2015 | Church, Congregation of the Mission, News, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Bishop Benjamin Romarosa, C.M., of Madagascar speaks of caring for our common home and Laudato Si’ in a strongly worded letter to his own government. Madagascar, one of the planet’s poorest countries, has become a new Eldorado of the large international mining...
by John Freund, CM | Jun 24, 2015 | News
For the first time ever all of the Vincentian Bishops were invited to meet in Rome. From June 23-25 twenty-two of the thirty-two bishops are participating in this gathering. They come from Lebanon, Italy, Poland, Colombia, Brazil, Mozambique, India, Madagascar,...
by John Freund, CM | Dec 20, 2013 | Vincentian Family
This year the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in Salzburg awarded the “Tolerance Award” to the Argentinian-Slovenian Lazarist Father Pedro Opeka CM . Opeka , who works as a missionary in Madagascar helped make the life of about 100,000 Malagasies more dignified,...
by John Freund, CM | May 27, 2013 | International Association of Charities - Ladies of Charity, Vincentian Family
Happy, healthy, educated children are for us SEEDS OF HOPE! writes Patricia de Nava “Seed Project” “Tsiry Project” – Southeast Madagascar (Update 6/12/2013 Statistics and TSIRY PROJECT Follow up) The idea for this project started on the train going from...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 12, 2012 | Vincentian Family
In a video “To the least of my brothers” Mt 25,40 Father Pedro OpekaCM says… “When I arrived I could not shut my eyes to utter destitution. I saw a 1,000 children struggling for survival among the animals in the garbage dump … I was...
