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Delegates´ Conferences / Foto gallery
Mumbai 2012
One can hardly experience sharper contrasts. Mumbai shows one the most profound poverty and the most extreme wealth within the narrowest possible space. More than 11 million people live in the slums of this metropolis sharing but a few square metres with their families. All the more astonishing are the joy and vivid curiosity with which guests are welcomed.
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Delegates´ Conferences / Event
Delegates´conference Mumbai / India 2012
Delegates of IDC visited a social community centre in the slums of Mumbai.
Women religious, social workers and deacons work together in the social stations for the good of the inhabitants. In one of the centres, women earn the livelihood of their families working as seamstresses. Now they are also making stoles for deacons.
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Delegates´ Conferences / Event
Powerful Missionary Witness of the Cuban Deacons and their Wives
The IDC Board and Delegates, convened this year in Havana at the Invitation of Miguel Angel Ortiz Corrales, They also attended the National Congress of the Cuban Deacons.
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Bishop Gebhard Fürst, Protector of the IDC, endows Diakonia Prize
On the occasion of the IDC’s 50th anniversary, Bishop Gebhard Fürst will for the first time award the Pro Diaconia Prize. Together with the Diaconia Christi Internationalis foundation, the IDC will evaluate projects from all over the world and award three money prizes.
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