A newly inaugurated curia centre of Bagdogra diocese in Siliguri, serves health and wellness of local tea workers. The facility was blessed on November 9 by Archbishop Vincent Aind of Ranchi. “The building christened ‘Dishangan’ connotes direction, guidance, leading and nurturing; the kind of things which Jesus who is the ‘way and the truth’ came to do,” says Vicar General of Bagdogra diocese Fr Felix Pinto. Situated in Gulma area of Siliguri, the majority of the beneficiaries of the new facility are tea labourers surviving on meagre income from neighbouring tea gardens. “The focus of this centre is to improve the mental health of the community and to promote naturopathy, treatment with less of allopathy medicine and using more of traditional and non-intrusive health remedies,” adds Pinto. Through the Health & Counselling Centre housed in Dishangan, Fr. Anthres Toppo and Fr. Michael Kerketta are already giving counselling and reflexology treatment.
Pope Reappoints Archbishop George Antonysamy to Vatican Dicastery
Pope Leo XIV has reappointed Archbishop George Antonysamy of Madras-Mylapore as a member of the Dicastery for Evangelization, one of the Vatican’s most important departments
