Utrecht, Netherlands Jan van Doggenaaar, the director of a 55-person team for the ICCO Alliance that focuses on the program area of “basic needs” was very generous with his time, because it took a while to describe both what ICCO was and how it has totally re-invented itself along new lines in January of …
Month: May 2007
Misereor
Aachen, Germany Misereor comes from a line in the German translation of the well known New Testament Bible story about the miracle of the loaves and fishes where Jesus was able to take two fish and five loaves of bread and then feed all the masses listening to his sermon. In the same way …
More Memorial Day Thoughts
Aachen, Germany Misereor, the seminal German Catholic Bishops international charity is based here, and I am meeting with them tomorrow about the work we do in many countries where they have an interest: Asia, Africa, and Latin America. They are equivalent to the Catholic Campaign for Human Development in the United States, except with a …