A message from John Sindoni, President of the FCM Leadership Council: For the past eight years, I have had the privilege of being a member of the Advisory Council of Franciscan Collaborative Ministries. During that time, I was impressed by the vigor and foresight that is so much the fabric of the men and women who [...]
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Every year the Peace Camp grows in sophistication. The other day there were some twenty children, and a body of adult volunteers present to provide an interesting program. As Sister Dolly says, “We want to provide a bit of a respite for parents while children are home on Winter Break, and at the same time [...]
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Marie Antonia Pedrosa finally got out of Cuba to live with her daughter here in Syracuse, but she brought a problem with her. Back on the island her diabetes could be treated in one of the numerous medical facilities there, but up here, with a complicated medical system and a language barrier she ran into [...]
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Helen Williams ‘did everything right.’ When she hosted a birthday party at home she personally frisked everyone for drugs, alcohol and weapons and everyone enjoyed themselves. They left peacefully and while some 20 or 30 young people waited outside her home for a ride home, “twenty or thirty shots rang out…” and Johnny Chambers lay [...]
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