The laity council of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) will launch a nationwide awareness campaign against terrorism and the use of narcotics on Oct. 1.
The Save the People camp-aign will see students and youths, religious, political organizations and sociocultural movements participate in a “conscientization process” over a period of three months, said V.C. Sebastian, the laity council secretary, in a press release issued on Sept. 24.
Programs through social media against narcotics and te-rrorism, seminars, discussions, family visits, and formation of local solidarity groups will be part of the campaign, the press release said.
Sebastian said the campaign “will rouse the general consci-ence against the glaring threats of narcotism and terrorism getting worse across the nation and making the common man increasingly worried.”
The anxiety shared by certain political parties about the fast spread of a terrorist agenda to the higher education sector is to be viewed seriously, he said.
The CBCI is the apex decision-making body of the Indian Church. The 14 regions of its laity council, 174 Catholic dioceses, various churches and lay organizations will collaborate in the campaign, ensuring the in-volvement of different religious denominations, people’s representatives and sociocultural leaders.