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Drug Counselling Centre Receives Means for Online Documentation

Since 2013, online documentation of drug counselling activities is mandatory. Otherwise government subsidies will be cut. The drug-counselling centre of the parish Caritas Foundation in Kechkemét, Hungary could obtain the necessary technical requirements with help from the Diaconia Christi Internationalis Foundation.

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Pro Diakonia

The Pro Diakonia Project is devoted to strengthening the permanent diaconate and its independence within the relationship existing between the ranks of the hierarchy, for otherwise the permanent diaconate would not be sustainable.

The project started in the year 2001 in the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart. Now it will be continued at the scale of the whole German-speaking area. In collaboration with the IDC, a researcher from the St. Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology will carry out the project for the next four years.

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Stola Project

The “Health Promotion Trust” project of the the Archdiocese of Bombay tries to make it possible for families to have a stable income. Now, women from the slums also sew stoles for the deacons.

Deacon stoles from the Mumbai slums

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Honorary Doctorate for Professor Klaus Kießling

On June 20th, 2014 the Latvian Christian Academy bestowed on its visiting faculty Klaus Kießling, PhD in Philosophy – History, PhD habil. In Theology, B.A. in Psychology, an Honorary Doctorate.

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