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141 Delegierte aus 7 Regionen und 53 Ländern trafen sich zur 10. Vollversammlung der Katholischen Bibelföderation und beeindruckten durch ihre Resilienz und ihr Engagement. Auf der einwöchigen Versammlung, die vom 15. bis 21. April 2023 in Mar del Plata, Argentinien, stattfand, befassten sich die Delegierten mit den tiefgreifenden Herausforderungen, denen sich die Bibelpastoral in der derzeiten fragilen Landschaft unserer Welt stellen muss.

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Das Exekutivkomitee der Katholischen Bibelföderation hat in seiner ordentlichen Sitzung am 26. August 2022 über ZOOM den Vorschlag des Regionalkomitees von Lateinamerika und der Karibik geprüft, der durch den Generalsekretär der Föderation vorgelegt wurde, und hat Magister Gerardo García Helder zum neuen Regionalkoordinator der Region Lateinamerika und Karibik für das nächste Triennium 2022-2025 ernannt.

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The Catholic Biblical Federation will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the Federation by organizing an International Biblical Congress in Rome from April 23-26, 2019. The Congress shall reflect upon the work and fruit of the Federation during  past 50 years, identify the challenges for Biblical pastoral ministry in the current ecclesial reality and outline its objectives and priorities for the coming years.

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The Executive Committee of the Catholic Biblical Federation, in its extraordinary meeting on March 23, 2018 via Skype, has considered the proposal of the Regional Committee of Latin America and the Caribbean, presented through the General Secretary of the Catholic Biblical Federation, and has appointed Father Jesús Antonio Weisensee Hetter as the new CBF Regional Coordinator of the Region of Latin America and the Caribbean for the triennium 2018-2021.

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On October 3, 2016 the President of CBF, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, the President of the Administrative Board of CBF, Bishop Bernhard Haßlberger, the Treasurer of CBF, Sr. Holger Sichler and the Secretary General of CBF, Rev. Jan Stefanów, S.V.D., were received by Cardinal Reinhard Marx, Archbishop of Munich and President of the German Episcopal Conference in his office in Munich.

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The annual meeting of the Administrative Board and the General Secretary of the Catholic Biblical Federation with representatives of the German Donor Agencies (Hilfswerke), which financially support the projects of the General Secretariat and of members of the Catholic Biblical Federation, took place 12 April, 2016 in Munich at the headquarters of Missio München.

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On October 20 the President of the Catholic Biblical Federation, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, present in Rome for the Synod on the Family, received the letter of approval of the new Constitutions of the Catholic Biblical Federation signed the previous day by Card. Kurt Koch. Two days later, on October 22 via a formal letter, Card. Tagle solemnly promulgated the new constitution so that it came into force.

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The Pontifical Council for the Family, in collaboration with the Catholic Biblical Federation, the Association of US Catholic Publishers and Libreria Editrice Vaticana, organized a meeting with Catholic editors on the theme "The Bible and the Family ". The meeting took place on September 23 in Philadelphia, in the context under the World Meeting of Families held in this city from 22-27 September.

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