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News from Abraham House After School
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Simone
Ponnet wint Vredesprijs van Kerk en Leven
BRUSSEL -- Simone Ponnet (64) is aalmoezenier in Rikers Island, met
16.000 gevangenen de grootste gevangenis van de Verenigde Staten.
Deze Vlaamse kleine zuster van het Evangelie van Charles de Foucauld
is de vijfde laureate van de Vredesprijs van Kerk en Leven. |
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Vredesprijs
Uitgereik
Kirk En Leven
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God
Behind Bars: A Prison Chaplain Reflects on the Lords Prayer
by Father Peter Raphael
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Inside Rikers Island - A Chaplain's Search for
God
by Father Peter Raphael
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obtain a copy of the book
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Nun
Helps Parolees
Nun helps parolees follow the right path out of jail Her warmth, discipline
keeps ex-cons from slipping back into crime.
By Peter Slevin / Washington Post
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2000
Friendship Awards, New York
Luc Vangerven presents a charitable donation to Sister Ponnet, Director
of The Abraham House in the Bronx.
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Peter
Young Testimony
August 8, 2001. Testimony of Fr. Peter Young, Director, Altamont Program
on behalf of the New York State Catholic Conference regarding the
2001-2002 Parole and Post-Release Supervision Process Presented to
the New York State Assembly Committee on Corrections.
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Night
of Feasting for Children at an Alternative Home Sweet Home
November 22, 2001. Johnny Soto's father was not at the Thanksgiving
dinner table.
Copyright 2001 The New York Times Company
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N.Y. Felons, Nun's Home Is A Saving Grace Parole Program Finds Success
NEW YORK -- Thomas Andrews has spent 11 of the past 17 years looking
at the world through steel prison bars. He had his chances at freedom,
but he couldn't handle the responsibility, at least until he met Sister
Simone. "She's got that mother thing: 'Are you hungry?' You don't
have to worry about carfare, something to eat, clothes, a place to
stay," said Andrews, 37. "She cares about your education, because
if you have your education, you're going to go somewhere.
Copyright 2001 The Washington Post
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For
Mexican Immigrants, Help in Bronx
November 9, 2001; In a bustling room on Willis Avenue in the South
Bronx, a boy was enjoying his first day in pottery class. He smiled
as he rounded the edges of a coiled snake. Suddenly, the
boy started to cry, and dropped the clay snake as if it had bit him.
In a way, it had. As he smoothed the clay, Federico Gonzalez,
13, flashed back to the sweet days in Puebla, Mexico, when he and
his father fetched clay from caves, or "mud mines" as the locals called
them, to make pottery pieces they would sell on the streets. The pottery
business put food on the table, and a special bond was molded between
father and son.
Copyright 2001 The New York Times Company
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The
Neediest Cases; Putting Gang Colors Aside to Lead in a Different Way
Just before leaving his room to meet the youngsters he tutors in math
and science, Emerson Avila opened a drawer filled with jet-black bandannas
that sparkled in the sunlight streaming past the blinds. Reaching
deep into the pile, Mr. Avila, 21, pulled out a tattered red bandanna
that had been buried in the drawer for 13 months. "I don't wear the
red one anymore," he said, exhaling as he tossed it back in the pile.
"It's a painful reminder of the days when I was running crazy through
the streets of this city." |
The
Neediest Cases; Helping to Replace Essentials After a Devastating
Hurricane
Last September, after Altagracia Fung saw on television the damage
that Hurricane Georges had visited upon Puerto Rico, she called her
parents in the Dominican Republic to warn them that the storm was
heading there next. Her parents, Herminia and Jose Santana, 84, did
not want to leave the tiny wood and metal house they had lived in
for 35 years. Yet they knew their daughter had always looked out for
them, so they followed her advice and evacuated. |
The
Neediest Cases; Helping Others as Thanks for the Help He Received
He came to New York at 12 to join his parents, who had emigrated from
Colombia six years earlier. He was the reason they had left behind
well-paid jobs in Cali, where his father was a policeman and his mother
a department store sales clerk. Speaking little English, his parents
took cleaning jobs, but knowing that their son would do better made
the long hours and meager pay easier to accept. John Lopez fulfilled
their dreams by learning English in six months and earning an unbroken
string of A's at Francis Lewis High School in Queens, where he became
a star of the soccer team. After graduation, he studied business administration
at Queensboro Community College and worked full time at Banco Real,
a Brazilian bank. To bolster his credentials, he took evening classes
at the American Banking Institute. ''I started in the mailroom and
was working my way up,'' Mr. Lopez said. ''I felt like nothing could
stop me.'' |
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The
Neediest Cases; When Lavish Meals Are a Dream and Sustenance Is
a Struggle
Gustine Wilkins is a wily hunter. Armed with a wad of coupons and
a rickety shopping cart, she can turn $80 in food stamps into three
weeks' worth of groceries. Her quarry is elusive and it takes an
entire day to chase down the bargains, but Ms. Wilkins, 32, is motivated
by a single, all-consuming objective: ''to stretch every dollar
so my son won't go hungry.'' After taking 6-year-old William to
school last Tuesday morning, she set off from her apartment in the
Mott Haven section of the Bronx with a missionary's zeal in her
eye and a drill sergeant's discipline in her step. ''I can't afford
boots, so I've got to get my shopping done before the snows come,''
she said, gesturing to her tattered blue sneakers.
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Notre Pere Qui Es En Enfer (preface de Jean-Francois
Six)
by Father Peter Raphael
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obtain a copy of the book
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