I am happy to inform you that the Administrative Council of St. Matthew’s Foundation in Memory of Cardinal Van Thuân has decided to honor you with the Cardinal Van Thuân Prize, Solidarity and Development 2008, for the project “Akamasoa”. This is the first time that this award is being bestowed. I would [...]
I went to Libya at the invitation of His Excellency Mgr.Giovanni Martinelli. Bishop of Tripoli and the surroundings. The Catholic Church in this area has only one place of worship and that is the St Francis Catholic Parish in Tripoli. Its faithful are international and multi cultural people All Catholics in the area rely [...]
On Saturday 27 September 2008, the entire Vincentian Family of Libanon came together around the Visitor Father Antoine NAKAD and the confreres of Libanon to celebrate the solemnity of our Founder Saint Vincent de Paul and inaugurate the festivities of the 225 th anniversary of the beginning of the Vincentians Fathers in the Orient.
From the Church:The Pope’s Trip to the USA; Msgr. Luca Brandolini, C.M.. From the Curia: Activities of the Superior General; General Postulation; Mission in El Alto. From the Provinces: CEVIM; The Mission in Greece; News from Oceania:
The Visitors of three provinces of the United States, in process of reconfiguration, had a meeting in Rome, at the General Curia 2-5 March. They left us this beautiful prayer for a New Community. With it, all the members of the Congregation of Mission could join in this intention, when and how they think best.
The magazine Mundo Negro of the Comboni Fathers will give, next Saturday, 23 February, the “Mundo Negro a la Fraternidad 2007” award to the Argentine missionary Pedro Opeka, a Vincentian Father, according to IVICOM news service.
The Visitors’ Conference of Europe and the Middle East (CEVIM) has promoted the gathering of missionaries who work in the formation of our members. This took place in Rome (Casa Maria Inmacolata) from the 17th till the 21st of January 2008.
The local superiors of the Province of Venezuela met on 13 and 14 November on the occasion of the “Province Day,” which this year coincided with the closing celebration of the 75th anniversary of the confreres’ presence in that country. The meeting was friendly, but very demanding.
The Kenya Mission of the Midwest Province, USA, was one of the winners of this year’s Mission Award for its Emmaus Programme for Diocesan Priests, which began as a response to the call of Kenyan bishops that Vincentians reach out to their priests, many alone and lonely, scattered throughout the desolate areas of Kenya. More…
Ordained Tuesday by the Bishop of Anagni and Alatri, he celebrated his first Mass on the Feast of the Assumption. “I have met Jesus, my Savior: in him alone is true joy.” “Good-bye to drugs: I have returned to life; now I am a priest.” After having won his war against heroin, [...]