This Toys Fair was held on January 7 in Radio Paz celebrating the Feast of The Three King in which more than 450 children received toys.

In the middle of the night on Friday, 16 December 2011 Typhoon WASHI struck the Northern Mindanao island in the Philippines causing massive destruction in 47 municipalities in the cities of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan.

On 11 November this year, some of my Vincentians and I had the great opportunity to meet you in the Vatican on the occasion of the meeting convened by the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum" on the "European Year of Volunteering." You presented to us an inspiring address and we put this up in our global website to share your encouraging message with the rest of our Vincentians around the world. We thank you once again for this Spirit-filled address.

Let me begin by thanking Cardinal Robert Sarah for the kind words he has addressed to me on your behalf. I would also like to express my deep gratitude to you and, by extension, to the millions of Catholic volunteers who contribute, regularly and generously, to the Church’s charitable mission throughout the world. At the present time, marked as it is by crisis and uncertainty, your commitment is a reason for confidence, since it shows that goodness exists and that it is growing in our midst. The faith of all Catholics is surely strengthened when they see the good that is being done in the name of Christ (cf. Philem 6).