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SVP urges solidarity over poverty

The Chancellor delivered his Spending Review yesterday. Here is our official response:The St Vincent de Paul Society (England & Wales) welcomes the announcement of increased spending to inequalities a...

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Don't blame children for food poverty

By Sheena Eastwood, manager, St Vincent Centres in Leeds and Bradford. Original article appeared in the Friday 13th November issue of the Catholic Universe. It is impossible to ignore the tidal media...

SVP welcomes Kruger Report

Covid-19 has devastated lives, but it has also demonstrated the unflinching ‘neighbourliness’ of communities, who have risen to the challenges trailing in the wake of the pandemic, friendship and...

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Fighting poverty with kindness

The Covid-19 pandemic has added a host of dreaded words to our everyday vocabulary; furlough, antibody test, social distancing, and self-isolation being the most frequently used. However, there is to...

SVP President welcomes the power and passion of Fratelli Tutti 

Pope Francis’s latest encyclical, ‘Fratelli Tutti’, has been welcomed by the SVP as “a powerful and passionate declaration to all Christians that they should work in solidarity for the those 4...

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