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Daughters of Charity

Homeless Kids Lose a Mighty Advocate

Kevin M. Ryan | Posted 12.16.2012 | Impact
Read More: Homeless Kids, Covenant House, Daughters of Charity, Homeless Youth, Homeless Children, Sister Mary Rose Mcgeady, Impact News
Kevin M. Ryan

She was the Mother Teresa of street children, a Holy tornado of determination and compassion. She lived and died every day with the successes and failures of our kids ... and she saw God in the tired faces of beautiful, forgotten kids.

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Amish, OK. Catholics, No.

Sister Mary Ann Walsh | Posted 05.09.2012 | Religion
Read More: Daughters of Charity, First Amendment, Health Care, Providence Hospital, Amish, Jesuits, Catholic, Catholic Church, Medi-Share, Contraception, Obama Administration, Religion News
Sister Mary Ann Walsh

The Amish are exempt from the entire health care reform law. Yet, when the Catholic Church asks for a religious exemption from just one regulation issued under the law, the Administration balks.

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Zafen: Redefining "Interest" in the Changing World of Microfinance

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Rev. Robert Maloney C.M., New Orleans, Daughters of Charity, Islam, Rotary International, Hands Together Cooperative, Chicago, DePaul University, Laura Hartman, Social Progress, Microfinance, Zafen, Microloan Interest, VentureWalk Business Partners, Haiti, Desiree H. Young, Jean-Claude Fleurantin, Abu Noor Abdul-Malik Ryan, Jim Luce, Haitian Entrepreneurs, Humanitarianism, Social Responsibility, Qard Hasanah, International Development, Hurricane Katrina, Daughters of Charity Ozanam School, Congregation of the Mission, Qur?An, World News
Jim Luce

Microfinance has taken a beating lately for shifting far afield from its humanitarian origins. It's become a good idea gone bad. But all is not lost.

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Zafèn Haitian Microfinance Effort Engages Haitians to Forge a New Future

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Zafen, Daughters of Charity, Mouvement Des Agriculteurs Pour Le Developement, DePaul University, Haitian Diaspora, Haiti Microfinance, Restavek Children, Fonkoze, Jim Luce, Cooperation Agricole Cafeiere Casanette, Jennifer Girard, Fondation Reves Et Action, Ile-a-Vache Development Group, Microfinance, International Vincentian Family, Oston, Skype, Jean-Patrick Lucien, Ecole Frederic Ozanam, World News
Jim Luce

Haitians like Jean-Patrick Lucien are one reason Zafèn, a new online microfinance program targeting small- and medium-sized businesses in Haiti, has ...

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