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.
Justice Bhuyan Calls for Protection of Dissent and Personal Liberty
Supreme Court Justice Ujjal Bhuyan has expressed concern over the growing trend of treating peaceful dissent and ordinary actions as criminal offences. Speaking at a
