Around 675 Catholic religious from various congregations in the Mangalore diocese of southern India have celebrated the World Day of Consecrated Life. The gathering held under the regional unit of the Con-ference of Religious in India (CRI) on February 2, the feast of Presenta-tion of the Lord, underlined the need for unity and brotherhood among religious community. “The Manga-lore diocese continues to be a cradle of religious vocations and we stand united to face the challenges of the modern world,” Providence Sister Severine Menezes, the president of the CRI Mangaluru unit, told the gathering at the Jesuit managed St Aloysius University in Mangaluru.