As the Vatican health service continued vaccinating Vatican residents and employees against COVID-19, it also began offering the vaccine to homeless people who live in Vatican-owned shelters. The first 25 shelter residents were vaccinated Jan. 20, ...
Orlando Soto smoked a cigarette and looked at his phone in a small fenced-in concrete courtyard outside Emmanuel House, an overflow men’s homeless shelter in Providence, Rhode Island. “We got TV, Wi-Fi. We watch movies ...
A weekly encounter with the homeless at the Jesuit-run Boston College High School hasn't slowed during the COVID-19 pandemic. But their St. Louis Project continues to evolve as a result. "They're constantly surprised at how generous ...
This year, when many fundraisers became virtual events due to COVID-19 restrictions, Covenant House Sleep Out went hybrid. The Nov. 19 event was dubbed a virtual sleep out this year, but thousands across the country also ...
Countless numbers of Americans were already at risk of homelessness this year because of job losses related to the novel coronavirus pandemic. Natural disasters have further aggravated the precarious condition that many people find themselves ...
Homeless young people have been particularly hard hit by the coronavirus. The already vulnerable community is suddenly even more in need and growing in number as many young people find themselves suddenly unemployed and unable ...
In his latest column, Monsignor Owen Campion writes that while the new homeless shelter established by Pope Francis at the Vatican has made headlines recently, the Church has a long history of caring for those ...
Mary Beth Baker, senior acquisitions editor at OSV, writes how she encountered a blind man in Washington, D.C.’s Union Station who made her see what joy looks like in ordinary life. Real Christian joy is ...
Bill Dodds writes about the Judgment of Nations and how we are called to assist the homeless. He offers big and little ways we can act and expands the definition of homeless to those who ...
It started with a child's concern for a homeless man she saw outside a grocery store. A stream of questions to her parents followed, and then her insistence on helping in some way. Now Emily's ...
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