by Ramele Hessou | Dec 8, 2014 | Uncategorized
Including contributions pledged for the end of 2014, the Vincentian Endowment Challenge has reached the $4 million USD mark! Counting the matching funds from the private foundation that offered our Congregation the challenge grant, this means we have now raised $8...
by Ramele Hessou | Nov 5, 2014 | Uncategorized
In our latest bulletin, you can learn about our Province in Slovakia, which is a beneficiary of the Vincentian Endowment Challenge (Patrimony Fund Project), and its mission to the Garifuna people in Honduras. There’s also a story about our chapel in Lebanon which...
by Ramele Hessou | Aug 8, 2014 | Uncategorized
The people of the Parish of São Raimundo Nonato, a work of our Province of Fortaleza located in the capital city of Belém in Pará State in Brazil, have been facing high levels of violence in their neighborhoods for some time. The parishioners organized, and decided...
by Ramele Hessou | Jun 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
Are you interested in learning about young confreres who are rebuilding a province that was suppressed for decades by a Soviet-backed regime? Or a school constructed by confreres in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that serves over 1,000 impoverished students?...
by Ramele Hessou | May 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
A mission parish of our Vice-Province of Mozambique, St. Jerome in Magude, has for some time provided professional training for rural people. The training has included carpentry, agriculture, and pottery making. One of the newest and most promising programs is called...
by Ramele Hessou | May 1, 2014 | Uncategorized
The local organization of Vincentian Lay Missionaries (MISEVI) in Slovakia is still in its infancy, but has already played a major role. In early November 2013, MISEVI Slovakia hosted a European–wide meeting of MISEVI in Nitra. This younger branch of the Vincentian...