The diocese of Miao on June 6 launched a campaign to mark the World Environment Day. At small event held at Christ the Light Minor Semi-nary, Bp George Pallippara-mbil of Miao inaugurated the “Mitthi Sona Hai” (Earth is Gold) campaign to make people self-sufficient by encouraging them to cultivate and produce their food.
Celebrating the World En-vironment Day 2021 with the diocesan minor seminarians, the Salesian prelate said, “The Earth is gold and it has every-thing for everyone. We only need to till it and discover it.”
The campaign aims at making every parish in the diocese to produce its vegeta-bles and fruits.
Quoting the creation story of the Bible, the bishop said, “God asks us to subdue the earth and not subjugate it. It calls for free and equal co-existence with the nature. We are to be friends to the mother earth and not its master.”