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Italian Ambassador in Egypt, for her tireless work with the Italian community in connection with the Italian Embassy. This is not the first time Sr. Pina's work among the poor and the rich has been recognized. (on the 8th May 2023, at the venue of the Italian Embassy in Cairo)
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briefly in 1858–1859. In 1864 he wrote a plan for the regeneration of Africa to focus the global
Catholic Church's interest in the evangelization of the continent while emphasizing the African people themselves as agents of this evangelization. He established a male
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General of the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Apparition, the first missionary nuns to go into the heart of Central Africa, Comboni describes the ministry of the missionary sister for Africa as a true
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African countries, the United States, Latin America, the Middle East, and created new centers for novitiate formation in Europe.
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