- Feeding the Hungry and Sheltering the Homeless, JustLove, Welcoming and Integrating Immigrants and Refugees
Talking about Homelessness at the U.N. and a Catholic Response to Migration
In this week’s episode of JustLove, Monsignor Kevin Sullivan talks about global homeless and migration. Lydia Stazen is the Executive Director of the Institute of Global Homelessness, a non-profit organization based in Chicago that is dedicated to supporting an emerging global movement to end street homelessness. This week, the United Nations is holding its 58th Commission for Social Development dedicated this year to examine the issue of homelessness. Lydia shares with us some of the proceedings she has been part of, what has been resolved about the state of the homeless around the world, and what next steps the United Nations, advocacy organizations like her own Institute of Global Homelessness,…
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One Year Anniversary of Hurricane Maria and the Work of the United States Institute of Peace in Commemoration of the International Day of Peace
On this week’s episode of JustLove, Monsignor Kevin Sullivan talks about the one year anniversary of Hurrican Maria and also the International Day of Peace. Rev. Ronnie Garcia is the Senior Pastor of Iglesia La Travesia in San Juan, Puerto Rico and an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA). Rev. Garcia shares with Msgr. Sullivan his experiences over the past year assisting members of his community post Hurricane Maria with relief efforts including food, water and medical supplies, and how he and his Church community has partnered with an organization called “Hunger Corps” in helping to rebuild severely damaged homes in a community in Puerto Rico called…
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Highlighting Local Volunteers Work with Refugees & UN’s 73 General Assembly Opens
On this week’s JustLove episode, Monsignor Kevin Sullivan talks about the work of Hearts and Homes for Refugees and the important work of the United Nations in peacekeeping. Kathie O’Callaghan is the President and Founder of Hearts and Homes for Refugees – a grassroots non-profit organization located in Westchester County, New York, dedicated to welcoming, protecting and advocating for refugees in the local community and abroad. Kathie joins Msgr. Sullivan in studio to discuss the work of Hearts and Homes for Refugees, how she and other volunteer members welcomed a Syrian refugee family of six to their community back in 2017, and how they have sustained the involvement of very…