Catholic media persons in India on April 10 mourned the death of Jesuit Fr Varghese Paul, a prolific Gujarati writer who started a news agency for South Asia in early 1980s. He was 77. Father Paul, a member of the Gujarat Jesuit province, died at 7:30 am on April 10 at GMERS (Gujarat Medical Education and Research Society) Hospital at Gotri in Vadodara, Gujarat. “He was shifted to the hospital last night. Lately he suffered from Covid besides other illnesses that he was suffering from,” says a message from Father Cedric Prakash, a Gujarat Jesuit.

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