We, members of VIVAT INTERNATIONAL, a Non-Governmental Organization of missionary Congregations, network for the respect of human life and the safekeeping of the environment through lobbying, sharing of information and advocating with the instances where decisions are made, nationally as well as internationally. [read…]
Human Rights Day 2011 This year thousands of people decided the time had come to claim their rights. They took to the streets and demanded change. Many found their voices using the internet and instant [read…]
Co-sponsored an event “Gold Fever: Global Screening Day”
VIVAT was established as an NGO in the year 2000 by the Divine Word Missionaries and the Missionary Sister Servants of the Holy Spirit. In his letter to the SVD and SSpS, Antonio Pernia,SVD said “We anticipate that this will give us the opportunity to witness at what Pope John Paul II has called ‘the new Areopagus’. … [read…]
Navodaya, the social center in Mysore, is focused on the empowerment of women and children who are marginalized and underprivileged. We, the Adorers of the Blood Of Christ, ASC sisters and the staff, are committed to the cause of women and children. [read…]
VIVAT International had the opportunity, alongside the Working Group on Mining, to meet with Mario Sepulveda. He was one of the Chilean miners who endured the 69-day ordeal of being trapped underground. Beyond his joking nature, Mario surfaced from the mine as one of the leaders of the group who helped carry the 33 miners to survival through his humor and strong spirituality.
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For me, in Dakar, a true mouvance occurred, that sprang up from the deep, from the bowels of the people and the earth. There they could begin to look for, and even to find the road towards unity and a global theology starting from the concrete experience of different people and moving ahead that speaks “God”. The WSF and WFTL have morphed through the open door to the future where, with differences but without clashes, sincere people can hope to build and live in this possible, different and better world that we all continue to seek. [read…]
Edward Flynn CSSp of the Geneva Office of VIVAT International follows the activities of the UN Human Rights Council, including the UPR process. When a country in which VIVAT members are present has been [read…]
Philip Gibbs, SVD is participating in the Commission on Social Development and was the speaker for a side event entitled “Voices from the Grassroots”. VIVAT International has submitted a written statement “Poverty and Culture” for the UN Commission on Social Development (CSocD 49). [read…]
Co-sponsored the side event “Poverty and Climate Change: Voices from Government, the Grassroots and NGOs”
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