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Echoes from Mumbai deacons’ wives

On 22-Nov-25, the IDC Deacons wives network had an online meeting. Here in Mumbai, I was able to give a summary of our encounter, sharing it separately with the wives of the Deacons and I was asked by Fr. Gilbert De’Lima to share this later with the Deacons.

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Encounters in Lithuania

Archbishop Georg Gänswein, Nuncio of the Baltic States, visited the training centre for deacons in Kaunas, where he also met candidates and their wives as well as representatives of the IDC.

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Conference of the Permanent Deacons and Wives in Austria 2025

The conference of the Permanent Deacons and Wives in Austria 2025 took place from 24-26 October in Wels in the diocese of Linz and was held under the biblical motto “Justice and peace kiss each other” (Psalm 85:11)

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From Vancouver to Mumbai, via Malawi

The latest online meeting of IDC’s Deacons’ Wives network took place on November 22nd 2025.

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Australian Diaconate Survey 2025

The most wide-ranging diaconate survey ever conducted in Australia has revealed challenges and opportunities for this growing vocation in the Catholic Church ‘down under.’

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